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Coachella music festival canceled amid COVID-19 concerns

Mexico's Banda MS and Ed Maverick were set to perform at the festival

Coachella is one of the most famous music festivals - Photo: Taken from Coachella's Facebook account
03/01/2020 |15:31Newsroom |
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This year’s edition of the Coachella music festival has been canceled due to fears.

Concerned about a possible surge of the virus in Autumn , decided to cancel Coachella as well as the .

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Kaiser said he was aware his decisión would affect many people but stressed that his priority is to protect the health of the community.

On March 10 , the organizers of Coachella informed that the music festival had been postponed for October 9, 10, 11, and October 16, 17, and 18 over concerns.

When the festival poster was released, it showed Mexicans were once again among the celebrities in charge of entertaining the audience.

From Mazatlán , Sinaloa , was one of the great surprises. The group would perform on April 12 and 19 in the same stage that would feature Frank Ocean , Lana del Rey, Fatboy Slim , among many others.

For his part, Ed Maverick , a soloist 18-years-old musician from Chihuahua , surprised his critics with his participation in Coachella scheduled on the same days as his co-nationals. Despite being bullied online, the young folk musician has persisted in his artistic career.

The festival would originally take place on two weekends, from April 10 to 12 and from 17 to 19 in the Empire Polo Club in the United States. Among the celebrities included in the poster that makes no distinctions in music genres were Rage Against the Machine , Calvin Harris , Thom Yorke , Travis Scott, and the K-pop idols BIGBANG .

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This is not the first time a Mexican would perform at Coachella, as was the case when Los Ángeles Azules delighted the attendees with songs like “El listón de tu pelo” iat a concert in which even Justin Bieber danced cumbia.

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As well as them, in previous years, bands like Café Tacvba , Zoé , Molotov , and Caifanes have also been present in the acclaimed festival.

Other Mexican bands and musicians that have been part of Coachella are , Kinky , Porter , Instituto Mexicano del Sonido , Rodrigo y Gabriela , Austin TV , Julieta Venegas , Ximena Sariñana , and Le Butcherettes .

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, Carla Morrison , El Gran Silencio , Los Blenders , Mint Field , and Pachanga Boys are other Mexican artists who have performed in the internationally famous music festival in California .

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