DOVER, Del. (WJZ) — Firefly Music Festival, the multi-day summertime performance astatine the Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, volition necessitate impervious of vaccination oregon a antagonistic COVID trial wrong 72 hours of attending the festival, promoter AEG Presents announced past week.
The argumentation is successful effect astatine each AEG Presents venues, which besides includes Rams Head Live downtown, until nary aboriginal than October 1, the institution said.
“We person travel to the decision that, arsenic a marketplace leader, it was up to america to instrumentality a existent basal connected vaccination status,” Jay Marciano, COO of AEG and Chairman and CEO, AEG Presents, said successful a statement. “Just a fewer weeks ago, we were optimistic astir wherever our business, and country, were heading. The Delta variant, combined with vaccine hesitancy, is pushing america successful the incorrect absorption again. We recognize that immoderate radical mightiness look astatine this arsenic a melodramatic step, but it’s the close one. We besides are alert that determination mightiness beryllium immoderate archetypal pushback, but I’m assured and hopeful that, astatine the extremity of the day, we volition beryllium connected the close broadside of past and doing what’s champion for artists, fans, and unrecorded lawsuit workers.”
This year’s Firefly Music Festival, acceptable for Sept. 23-26, is headlined by Billie Eilish, The Killers, Tame Impala and Lizzo.