- Date
- 2020-06-17
- Kind
- Cancellation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folklorecommunitytourismpublic-health
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Forum reported on June 17, 2020, that the Beaver Island Music Festival had been canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic. A participant said the cancellation came by email from organizers Carol and Dan Burton, and another participant separately confirmed seeing the cancellation notice.
Evidence limits
The archive preserves participant reports of the organizer email, not the email itself or an official festival release. The thread contains conflicting and speculative claims about pressure, threats, and the reasons for cancellation; those claims are not adopted as facts.
Sources
- The thread began with attendees looking forward to the festival; on June 17 a participant said they had received a cancellation email from Carol and Dan Burton, and another participant confirmed reading about the cancellation. The organizer email itself is not held in the archive, and subsequent claims about pressure, threats, or the reasons for cancellation are partisan or speculative and are not treated as findings.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015300
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Music Festival is canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-music-festival-canceled-2020/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Beaver Island Music Festival,” June 14–19, 2020..
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