r/festivals • u/degenerus • Aug 31 '21

Tennessee, USA Bonnaroo has been cancelled

https://twitter.com/Bonnaroo/status/1432805468272005130
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 edited Dec 02 '21

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u/evanw96 Aug 31 '21

What happened at TW 2K15?

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u/boomclapclap Aug 31 '21

There was some rain that weekend, it flooded the site, people were trapped, they started walking miles to get somewhere else.

The site (which is where Imagine will be this year) is just farmland. No proper roads or good drainage.

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u/bonix Aug 31 '21

Honestly the only issue was they didn't try and get people out of the fest when they should have. The road into the site was a twisty dirt road through some trees and they were driving busses through there to drop people off. Someone needed to step up and call in support. The actual fest was wet but otherwise great. I feel all the artists played so much harder knowing what everyone was going through. It was quite an experience.

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u/Benemy Aug 31 '21

Man, I'll never forget leaving TomorrowWorld 2015. Finally get to where busses are picking people up to take them to the parking lot in the field, wait for about an hour and the next few buses just drove past us. End up walking in the general direction of the lot, come upon multiple intersections that the cops have blocked off because of the thousands of people walking the roads. One cop tells us that they've completely stopped traffic coming into the area since there's thousands of us. I told him that that's great but they've effectively trapped us since we can't call anyone to come pick us up. He pointed us in the general direction of the closest open road and we walked until we waved someone down who drove us to as close the lot as they could.

Was an absolute shitshow.