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Governors Ball 2020 Lineup Revealed: Missy Elliott, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Flume, Solange & More

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Stevie Nicks, H.E.R, Portugal. The Man, Dominic Fike, Carly Rae Jepsen and more to appear at the festival, taking place from June 5–7 at Randall’s Island Park
Onaje McDowelle
GRAMMYs
Jan 16, 2020 - 11:47 am

For its 10th annual New York City-based music festival, Governors Ball has officially announced its 2020 lineup.

The festival is set to host 2020 GRAMMY nominees Steve Lacy, Flume, Vampire Weekend and others across three days and multiple stages in New York City’s East River Randall’s Island Park.

Visitors to the festival will also have the chance to catch performances from artists including budding r&b songstress Summer Walker, dream-pop singer-songwriter and producer BANKS, five-time GRAMMY nominee Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd and "Slide Away" singer Miley Cyrus, in addition to Ellie Goulding, Portugal. The Man, Jon Bellion, Bleachers, Khruangbin, Danny Brown, Cuco and more. The full lineup is available here.

Tickets for the festival go on sale Jan. 17 at 12 p.m. EST on governorsballmusicfestival.com.

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Crowd shot at Governors Ball 2019

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Governors Ball 2020 Canceled Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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The marquee NYC festival, which was to celebrate its 10th annual edition this year, is scheduled to return in June 2021, according to a statement from the festival organizers
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Mar 27, 2020 - 12:56 pm

Governors Ball, New York City's marquee multi-day, all-genre music festival, has canceled its 2020 edition due to the growing coronavirus pandemic.

Festival organizers announced the event's cancellation in a statement shared on the festival's official website and social media accounts Thursday (March 26). The statement also indicates that Governors Ball will return in June 2021 and that festival organizers are already working on next year's edition.

"Simply put – due to current government mandates and the evolving situation in NYC, it is neither safe nor prudent to move forward with our June dates," the statement read. "The well-being of our fans, artists, staff, vendors, partners, and the surrounding NYC community is always our #1 priority.  

"Over the past few weeks, we have gone to great lengths to find a postponement date that works for all parties involved. Due to a myriad of planning and logistical issues, we have come to the conclusion that there are no sufficient options available to us. We are pushing ahead, and are already jumping into plans for 2021.

"These are crazy and unprecedented times, but New Yorkers are no strangers to challenges. As a city and a community, we will all get through this. New York always does. Now is the time to be smart, look out for one another, and do our part to help the city and the world. We encourage everyone to listen to health officials, be safe, and be excited for the future when we are all on the other side of this."

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The festival is offering refunds for festival tickets and transportation passes to customers who purchased them through the Governors Ball ticketing page. They are also offering purchasers the option to transfer their ticket(s) to next year's festival. More information about ticket transfers and refunds is available on the festival website.

Originally scheduled to take place June 5-7 at Randall's Island Park in New York City, the festival, which was to celebrate its 10th annual installment this year, had recently announced its 2020 lineup, which featured headliners Tame Impala, Missy Elliott, Flume and Vampire Weekend, among many other acts.

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Governors Ball is the latest festival to be canceled or postponed this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. This month alone, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, New Orleans Jazz Fest, BottleRock Napa Valley, the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Coachella and Stagecoach, Ultra Music Festival, SXSW, Lollapalooza Argentina, Something In The Water, Treefort Music Fest, Afro Nation Puerto Rico, Brussels' Listen! Festival, Record Store Day and several other major events and festivals around the world were called off or rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bonnaroo 2020 Lineup: Lizzo, Miley Cyrus, Nelly, Flume, Lana Del Rey, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala, Tool & Many More

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The legendary "Hot In Herre" rapper will be performing his debut 2000 album, 'Country Grammar,' in full at the 19th annual fest
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Jan 7, 2020 - 1:57 pm

Just a few days after the 2020 Coachella lineup dropped, Bonnaroo 2020 has followed suit with an incredibly stacked and diverse lineup featuring GRAMMY winners/current nominees Tool, first-time GRAMMY nominee Lizzo and past nominee Tame Impala as the headliners. Current GRAMMY nominees Flume, Lana Del Rey, Vampire Weekend, J.I.D, DaBaby, The 1975, Brittany Howard, Altın Gün and Yola will also perform at the 19th annual four-day music festival held in Manchester, Tenn.

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The farm-set event will take place from June 11–14 and will also feature major sets from versatile pop queen Miley Cyrus, bass legend BASSNECTAR, recently-reunited rock supergroup Oysterhead (consisting of Les Claypool of Primus, Trey Anastasio of Phish and Stewart Copeland of The Police), Primus and GRAMMY-winning St. Louis rap icon Nelly, who will be performing his GRAMMY-nominated debut 2000 album, Country Grammar, in full.

The colorful lineup poster also reveals more exciting acts across genres, including past GRAMMY nominee Femi Kuti, GRAMMY winner Leon Bridges, as well as Cuco, Run the Jewels, Megan Thee Stallion, Dashboard Confessional and Dermot Kennedy. Glass Animals, Young the Giant, TroyBoi, The Band Camino, Denzel Curry, Yaeji and Billy Strings are also slated to perform.

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Leading this year's Bonnaroo SuperJam is Durham, N.C. electro-pop act Sylvan Esso. The annual jam session curated by a different artist each year, to bring together musicians in honoring late heroes (GRiZ led the jams last year). The iconic, longstanding Nashville music venue Grand Ole Opry will be hosting a special showcase for the third year in a row, on the first day of the event. Those not frolicking at the fest can even tune into this showcase online, via opry.com and WSMonline.com and their respective mobile apps.

All ticket options for Bonnaroo go on sale this Thurs., Jan. 9 at noon ET; more info on their site.

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Crowd shot at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2019

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Primavera Sound Barcelona 2021: Bad Bunny, Charli XCX, Tyler, The Creator, The Strokes, FKA twigs And More Confirmed

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Following a recent postponement, the celebrated Spanish festival has announced the first 100 artists for its 20th anniversary next June
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
May 27, 2020 - 1:24 pm

After its 2020 edition was postponed to next year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Primavera Sound Barcelona has today (May 27) announced the first 100 artists confirmed for its 2021 installment. The initial lineup features "a majority of artists who reconfirm their presence at the festival," according to a blog post shared on the event's official website announcing the 2021 artist roster, including Bad Bunny, Tyler, The Creator, The Strokes, Pavement, Bikini Kill and several other previously announced artists. Newly added artists include Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Gorillaz, FKA twigs, Jamie xx and Jorja Smith, among many others.

The five-day festival, now taking place June 2-6, 2021, in Barcelona, Spain, was originally scheduled to celebrate its 20-year anniversary next month (June 3-7). In late March, the festival was postponed to August due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this month (May 11), Primavera Sound Barcelona 2020 was ultimately postponed to next year, with the festival citing force majeure. The festival will now celebrate its 20th anniversary during the newly rescheduled dates in June 2021. 

More artists, including acts confirmed for the original 2020 lineup and new additions, will be announced over the next few months, according to the Primavera Sound Barcelona website. 

In the blog post, festival organizers addressed the impact the coronavirus pandemic has made on Primavera Sound Barcelona and the "hard times" it has caused for everyone involved.

"The entire Primavera Sound Barcelona team would like to acknowledge that we really appreciate all the messages of support, for the understanding and encouragement that we have received over the past few weeks," the post reads. "These are hard times for everyone and to feel that so many people are looking forward to collective events like our festival pushes us to work with more passion than ever …

"Whoever said that the second chances are never good did not imagine that we would experience something like what is happening this 2020. With the whole world on pause due to the evolution of the global pandemic and with the live music sector holding its breath facing a summer without festivals, we can only look forward: towards 2021, specifically, the year in which we are going to recover everything that will be pending from 2020."

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The 2021 installment of Primavera Sound Barcelona will debut Brunch -On The Beach, a brand-new closing party on the beach. The inaugural event, which was originally announced for the 2020 iteration of the festival this past February, will now take place Sunday, June 6, 2021, and will feature DJ sets from Disclosure, Nina Kraviz, Amelie Lens and Black Coffee. 

Tickets for Primavera Sound Barcelona 2021 will go on sale June 3 at 6 a.m. EST/noon CEST. All tickets purchased for the 2020 festival are valid for the 2021 edition. That same day, the festival will begin to offer exchanges and refunds for those who purchased tickets for the 2020 festival. 

To view the full lineup and to purchase tickets for Primavera Sound Barcelona 2021, visit the festival's official website. 

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Renée Fleming Webinar Series To Explore Impact Of Music And Arts On Human Health And The Brain

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Music and Mind Live with Renée Fleming will feature scientists and practitioners in the "intersection music, neuroscience, and healthcare"
Jennifer Velez
MusiCares
May 19, 2020 - 2:12 pm

GRAMMY-winning soprano Renée Fleming will launch a webinar series exploring the impact of music and arts on human health and the brain.

Music and Mind Live with Renée Fleming will feature scientists and practitioners in the "intersection music, neuroscience, and healthcare" including child development, pain and anxiety and management in conversation with the singer, according to a statement. The first webinar will happen Tuesday, May 19 at 5 p.m. EST/ 2 p.m. PST with Dr. Vivek Murthy. 

Murthy will discuss music, loneliness and isolation as well as his book, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. The series will also include a Q&A portion.

Fleming, an arts and health advocate, said now is the time to talk about how art impacts health. 

"Research is revealing amazing things about the way arts influence human health and the brain,” Fleming said in a statement. “With our working lives halted, the covid-19 pandemic has also fostered an explosion of creativity and good will. What better time to examine our need as human beings to create and experience the arts, and the basis of this in science?"

Fleming's role as the Artistic Advisor to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Arts inspired her to create the series..

The webinars can be watched live on Facebook. Those who cannot tune into the livestream can catch a replay on the Kennedy Center's website. The live episodes can also be watched on the Kennedy Center's Facebook and YouTube. 

See the full schedule of the series below:

May 19 – “Music, Loneliness, and Isolation”
Vivek H. Murthy, MD (former US Surgeon General, author)
 
May 26 – "Community of Voices, Sound and Music Perception, and a Resource for the Future"- 
Julene Johnson, PhD and Charles Limb, MD (University of California San Francisco); Sunil Iyengar (National Endowment for the Arts)
 
June 2 – “At Home with Children: Musical Tool Kit”
Miriam Lense, PhD, (Vanderbilt University Music Cognition Lab); Sara Beck, PhD (Randolph College)
 
June 9 – "Integrative Approach to COVID-19 and the Mind" 
Deepak Chopra, MD (The Chopra Foundation)
 
June 16 – "Using Music for Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19"
Wendy Magee, PhD (Temple University); Tom Sweitzer, MMT, MT-BC (A Place to Be)

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