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Coachella Concert Organizers Ask 2020 Acts to Play Next Year Instead

  • Biggest U.S. music festival is unlikely to take place in 2020
  • Travis Scott, Frank Ocean were set to headline annual event

The 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in Indio, California. 

Photographer: Rich Fury/Getty Images  

The organizers of the Coachella music festival are asking artists lined up for the annual event to play in 2021 instead, according to people familiar with the matter, the clearest sign yet that this year’s show will be canceled.

Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean are set to headline the festival, which takes place every year on polo fields in Indio, California, a desert town a few hours outside of Los Angeles. Coachella is the largest music festival in the U.S., generating as much as $100 million in sales for promoter Goldenvoice and its parent AEG.