Why are so many artists pulling out of Woodstock 50?

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Is it because the event moved to Maryland? Why does no one want to play in Maryland/Merriweather Post Pavilion?

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The original idea was to have Woodstock 50 in upstate NY. That was going to be a stadium-sized event with lots of fans and tickets. Alas, nobody would agree to provide the venue. At the last second, literally Fyre Festival late, the venue switched to a 30K+ place south of Baltimore. That’s not the sort of thing that artists agreed to, and moving it out of NY gave them the option to cancel their participation while keeping the advance money they were paid. So, the artists did that. They are worried about this going the FF disaster route, and nobody wants to be associated with that.

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