Speaker 1: One other quick thing will do and then we'll uh
and then we'll play some more tunes. And if you're
just joining us live, of course we have the stiff
Tones coming up in the third hour. And they're already
in the building, so uh in just in just a
couple of minutes. What do you mean, sort of not
quite in the building. They're at the building. Oh, they'll
let me know when they're ready to be in the building. Oh, okay, gotcha, gotcha.
This is from Digital Music News out front. There is
an actual Earth Well, it does say online that's one
of their uh have heart, will travel very good and
they do very good. Uh. Country music festival issues full
refunds after failing to launch, latest in spate of country
festivals getting mixed. Until I saw this, by the way,
that sounds occurred to me. You don't see a lot
of country music festivals, like big, large scale festivals. Uh,
contrasting with rock festivals and hip hop festivals. Yeah, lots
of metal festivals. County country festivals seems like you don't
see as many of them. And apparently there's some weird
lights like their cursed or something. It says Michigan's Country
Roads Music Festival issues full refunds following a twenty twenty
five cancelation, but plans to revive the event for twenty
twenty six, it says. It says. After Faster Horses Music
Festival announced its cancelation in January, event organizers aimed to
fill the void with the Country Roads Music Festival at
the same venue, the Michigan International Speedway. But now Country
Roads has been canceled, with plans to revive the event
next year. So what went wrong? Quote? All tickets will
be fully refunded. You don't need to do a thing.
We'll handle it on our end and make sure the
money gets back to you as quickly as possible. The
post says, this community means the world to us, and
we can't wait to share something really special with you
in twenty twenty six. Oh, I missed the first paragraph
of that. So the first paragraph of the announcement says, quote,
this wasn't an easy call, but we truly believe it's
the right one. Our goal has always been to create
something meaningful for this community, and we want to give
it the time and care it deserves. So that's from
the Instagram post announcing the tourist cancelation. Country Roads was
due to kick off on July eighteen, yesterday, at the
Groves of Michigan campground, but its cancelation was announced just
four days prior. Wow, just four days before the festival
they announced it was canceled. According to festival organizer Darcy Keys,
their team was simply not prepared to pull off a
festival in such a short amount of time, especially when
many potential attendees don't order tickets until the last minute.
By the way, so I've been involved in festivals. Festivals
take I mean a large scale festival with national artists
and the whole thing like what it sounds like they
were doing, that can take like a year, a solid
year year of planning. It really can. Doesn't have to,
I mean, it might only take six months. But it
sounds like they tried to do something quick here that
they just couldn't do. So Keyes also said, quote, I
don't think that we ever got to that critical minimum
ticket sales level. We probably only had about three and
a half months, and I think in hindsight, it probably
wasn't sufficient time to be able to promote the festival. Unquote, yeah,
three and a half months is not enough time. For
a major festival, but she isn't ready to completely throw
on the towel. Keys said that trying to put on
the festival in such a short time this year was
a learning experience and she looks forward to bringing the
vision to life in twenty twenty six. Naturally, fans who
were planning to attend have shared their disappointment on social media,
but singer Mikaela Prue, who is due to perform at
the festival, noted how such cancelations impact artists, especially lesser
known ones, and that relates to what we were talking
about with Jane's addiction. By the way, how you know,
when when things get canceled, whether it's a tour, whether
it's a festival, it affects a lot of people, especially
lesser known artists like MICHAELA Prue, who many people were
lined up to open. Oh yeah. But also, you know,
it affects everything, and it has a ripple effect. And
if you're not if you're not super famous and rich,
you know, you can really take a hit financially. It
can really screw things up for you. MICHAELA Prue also
said quote festivals are obviously a major way that growing
artists like me get their name out there. It's also
one of the main ways that myself and my band
generate income unquote. It's a matter of hard times for
up and cooming musicians compounded by hard times for potential
attendees an economic struggle. As economic struggles make it more
difficult for fans to justify buying tickets to these events,
more live music festivals will undoubtedly see the acts, leaving
artists who depend on that income holding the bag. So
there you go, So another another festival down the tubes
and more lawsuits.