Posted on 03/27/2020 2:59:30 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Festivals are canceling and postponing all over the world because of the coronavirus pandemic.
For Summerfest in Milwaukee, the show will go on — in September.
Officials with parent company Milwaukee World Festival Inc. announced that the annual 11-day festival — originally set this year for June 24 to 28 and June 30 to July 5 — will now run nine days in 2020, taking place on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays across the first three weeks in September.
The new dates: Sept. 3 to 5, Sept. 10 to 12 and Sept. 17 to 19. Festival officials Monday did not reveal if any of the 32 acts already announced for 2020 will be available in September. They were split up across nine shows at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater and seven shows at the BMO Harris Pavilion...
All previously purchased general-admission passes will be honored, and Summerfest officials said they would reveal the status of previously announced shows at the amphitheater and the pavilion in the coming days.
It's the first time in Summerfest's 52-year history that the festival has been postponed. But the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a lot of firsts for the live music industry.
The remodel of Summerfest's 23,000-capacity amphitheater is the largest in the festival's history, part of $165 million in renovations to Maier Festival Park since 2006 that have included reconstructed ground stages and entrances. Summerfest's biggest venue opened as the Marcus Amphitheater in 1987.
By the end of last year, Milwaukee World Festival's debt amounted to an estimated $30.1 million, but Smiley has stressed that the festival remains profitable and was on track to reduce that debt to $13 million by 2030, when its lease with the city for Maier Festival Park expires.
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Good idea considering what happened at Mardi Gras.
What about the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee?
“FallFest” has a better ring to it anyway.
I haven’t been keeping tabs on that event.
Downsize it. The coronation will just be a formality for Cuomo.
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