Major Music Fests to Be Postponed

The coronavirus has now taken its toll on two major music festivals.

The Coachella Festival as well as the Stagecoach Music Festival are being postponed and possibly rescheduled in October, according to Variety.

The music events company Goldevoice is reportedly informing agents and figuring out which artists are available on consecutive weekends in October — starting with Oct. 9.

Insiders tell Variety that no official statement has been issued, but that a decision was inevitable.

Coachella and Stagecoach are the latest festivals to be affected, Last Friday it was announced  that South by Southwest is officially off for 2020.

Miami’s EDM-based Ultra Music Festival has also called off, according to Fox Business.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was scheduled for two weekends, April 10-12 and again April 17-19.

The scheduled nightly headliners were Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean.

Stagecoach, the annual country music festivals, was to follow on April 24-26, with Carrie Underwood, Eric Church and Thomas Rhett in the headline slots.

Also...Madonna has canceled the last two stops of her latest tour in France after the country said it was banning events of more than 1,000 people to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

A statement posted onto the pop star's website on Monday says her March 10-11 shows in Paris would no longer take place.

Late Monday night, Pearl Jam took to Twitter to announce its was postponing the first leg of its 2020 tour. The band waited until the last minute as the first concert was scheduled for March 18 in Toronto.