One of Michigan’s biggest, most celebrated music festivals has fallen prey to COVID-19 for the second year in a row.
Electric Forest in Rothbury, which had hoped to stage a postponed 2021 festival in August, instead announced that canceling this year’s music festival was the “only course of action.”
That cancellation follows on the heels of similar moves by other regional festivals, including the Buses by the Beach Bus Benefit north of Holland over Memorial Day weekend and late August’s Willowsong Music Festival in Sidney.
Electric Forest’s decision came “after a tumultuous year full of challenges” that included pushing the late June festival to alternative dates in August with hopes that 40,000-plus attendees might be able to gather on the Double JJ Resort site.