Posted on 6/23/2004, 12:13:27 PM by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - A music festival affiliated with MoveOn.org and other liberal groups has been forced to cancel its summertime tour because of poor ticket sales.
"It is with heart-gripped despair that I inform you of Lollapalooza's disbandment for the summer of 2004," said Lollapalooza co-founder Perry Farrell in a website message to "my Fellow Artisans, Activists, and Feverish Supporters."
"You can imagine the dismay I share at this moment with the artists and musicians who were looking forward to the tour," Farrell said, adding that the concert tour "could no longer see fit to continue this year."
Farrell blamed Lollapalooza's poor ticket sales on the poor health of the touring industry in general.
"I hope you can accept my apologies for not providing you with the summer that you had your hearts set on," Farrell told fans. "I tried very hard to keep us on course; heading straight into the most ferocious musical storm in history. We were not able to continue; we were taking on huge financial losses...My prayer is that we live to fight another day and walk together at the victory parade."
"Lollapalooza has always been about more than just music," the website says. "The festival is devoted to introducing concertgoers to unconventional notions of art, technology, and culture, as well as exposing them to an assortment of ideas and philosophies, ranging from expanding environmental consciousness and encouraging political activism."
'Revolution Solution'
As part of its summer tour, Lollapalooza this year planned to offer what it called a "Revolution Solution," which the website described as a non-partisan political campaign, conducted in partnership with "the influential grassroots political network, MoveOn.org."
According to the website, the Revolution Solution "challenges Americans young and old to take charge of their own future through vigorous, well-informed involvement in the political process."
Farrell said the Revolution Solution would be an "integral" part of the Lollapalooze festivities.
"A number of diverse - but undeniably interconnected - concerns will be addressed, including renewable energy and the environment; artistic expression, free speech, and media deregulation; unemployment and the quest for sustainable jobs; workers rights and world trade issues; voting rights (including the push for making Election Day a national holiday); the state of public education; partisan politics and its effect on modern discourse," he said on the website.
Lollapalooza organizers said a "MoveOn.org-Revolution Solution tent" would be at every concert on the summer tour, to distribute information, promote voter registration, and collect web addresses for the development of a major e-mailing list."
MoveOn.org also planned to have video screens on either side of the concert's main stage, to show "a wide range of media," including some of its "acclaimed commercials," Some of those ads portray President Bush as the "Misleader."
"With the addition of the Revolution Solution, Lollapalooza 2004 will stand as the most significant merging of popular music and political activism in history," Farrell said.
Some of the "solutions-oriented groups" that planned to attend Lollapalooza concerts this summer included Amnesty International; Axis of Justice; Climate Solutions; Global Exchange; Greenpeace; Not in our Name; Pesticide Action Network; PETA; Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network; Sustainable Energy and Economy Network; Sierra Club; Union of Concerned Scientists; and U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
The Lollapalooza tour, now canceled, was supposed to begin July 14 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through August with stops in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Toronto, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and Texas.
sniff-sniff
Guess concert goers effectively told them to "move on" ?
Must be racism.... no..... it's opression by the Republicans.... no... it's the economy... that's it! .....no....
What a shame. {snicker}
No Dollarferloosers.
Because you couldn't sell out a SHOE BOX! . . you liberal looooooser !
Where did all the leftists go? Long time passing...
What an elistist statement!
We want to "educate" the unwashed masses of middle America
Guess middle America is smarter than these leftists proproganda pushers thought
Then I discovered Lollapalooza's partisan slant.
Suddenly, I was busy that weekend.
I would say that is there problem right there. Who wants to pay to expand their environmental consciousness?
Ugh. there=the
I can't tell from their name; are they FOR it or AGAINST it?
George Soros isn't returning phone calls?
To paraphrase my Senator--I'm saddened...deeply saddened.
Hey Perry....most of us who went to the original have grown up and had families--we're no longer interested or believe the drivel(and hype)...MOVE ON...please!
This story is "music" to my ears. ;)
It gives me hope for November!
Perry Farrell - any relation to Mike Farrell?
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