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Speaker 1: One other quick thing will do and then we'll uh

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and then we'll play some more tunes. And if you're

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just joining us live, of course we have the stiff

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Tones coming up in the third hour. And they're already

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in the building, so uh in just in just a

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couple of minutes. What do you mean, sort of not

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quite in the building. They're at the building. Oh, they'll

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let me know when they're ready to be in the building. Oh, okay, gotcha, gotcha.

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This is from Digital Music News out front. There is

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an actual Earth Well, it does say online that's one

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of their uh have heart, will travel very good and

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they do very good. Uh. Country music festival issues full

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refunds after failing to launch, latest in spate of country

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festivals getting mixed. Until I saw this, by the way,

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that sounds occurred to me. You don't see a lot

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of country music festivals, like big, large scale festivals. Uh,

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contrasting with rock festivals and hip hop festivals. Yeah, lots

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of metal festivals. County country festivals seems like you don't

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see as many of them. And apparently there's some weird

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lights like their cursed or something. It says Michigan's Country

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Roads Music Festival issues full refunds following a twenty twenty

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five cancelation, but plans to revive the event for twenty

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twenty six, it says. It says. After Faster Horses Music

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Festival announced its cancelation in January, event organizers aimed to

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fill the void with the Country Roads Music Festival at

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the same venue, the Michigan International Speedway. But now Country

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Roads has been canceled, with plans to revive the event

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next year. So what went wrong? Quote? All tickets will

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be fully refunded. You don't need to do a thing.

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We'll handle it on our end and make sure the

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money gets back to you as quickly as possible. The

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post says, this community means the world to us, and

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we can't wait to share something really special with you

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in twenty twenty six. Oh, I missed the first paragraph

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of that. So the first paragraph of the announcement says, quote,

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this wasn't an easy call, but we truly believe it's

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the right one. Our goal has always been to create

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something meaningful for this community, and we want to give

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it the time and care it deserves. So that's from

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the Instagram post announcing the tourist cancelation. Country Roads was

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due to kick off on July eighteen, yesterday, at the

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Groves of Michigan campground, but its cancelation was announced just

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four days prior. Wow, just four days before the festival

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they announced it was canceled. According to festival organizer Darcy Keys,

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their team was simply not prepared to pull off a

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festival in such a short amount of time, especially when

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many potential attendees don't order tickets until the last minute.

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By the way, so I've been involved in festivals. Festivals

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take I mean a large scale festival with national artists

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and the whole thing like what it sounds like they

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were doing, that can take like a year, a solid

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year year of planning. It really can. Doesn't have to,

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I mean, it might only take six months. But it

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sounds like they tried to do something quick here that

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they just couldn't do. So Keyes also said, quote, I

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don't think that we ever got to that critical minimum

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ticket sales level. We probably only had about three and

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a half months, and I think in hindsight, it probably

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wasn't sufficient time to be able to promote the festival. Unquote, yeah,

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three and a half months is not enough time. For

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a major festival, but she isn't ready to completely throw

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on the towel. Keys said that trying to put on

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the festival in such a short time this year was

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a learning experience and she looks forward to bringing the

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vision to life in twenty twenty six. Naturally, fans who

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were planning to attend have shared their disappointment on social media,

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but singer Mikaela Prue, who is due to perform at

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the festival, noted how such cancelations impact artists, especially lesser

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known ones, and that relates to what we were talking

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about with Jane's addiction. By the way, how you know,

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when when things get canceled, whether it's a tour, whether

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it's a festival, it affects a lot of people, especially

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lesser known artists like MICHAELA Prue, who many people were

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lined up to open. Oh yeah. But also, you know,

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it affects everything, and it has a ripple effect. And

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if you're not if you're not super famous and rich,

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you know, you can really take a hit financially. It

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can really screw things up for you. MICHAELA Prue also

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said quote festivals are obviously a major way that growing

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artists like me get their name out there. It's also

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one of the main ways that myself and my band

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generate income unquote. It's a matter of hard times for

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up and cooming musicians compounded by hard times for potential

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attendees an economic struggle. As economic struggles make it more

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difficult for fans to justify buying tickets to these events,

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more live music festivals will undoubtedly see the acts, leaving

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artists who depend on that income holding the bag. So

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there you go, So another another festival down the tubes

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and more lawsuits.