Organizers recently announced on social media that they were canceling the Giddy Up Las Vegas Music Festival 2024. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Megan Moroney and Turnpike Troubadours were scheduled to headline the three-day country music event in mid-October.
Vegas Country Music Festival Was Set For The Fall
Organizers LNE Presents, a Salt Lake City-based entertainment company, announced the cancellation of the Giddy Up Music Festival in a social media post Friday (Aug. 30.) LNE Presents planned to host the inaugural country music festival Oct. 18-20 at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
“To our Giddy Up crew, There’s nothing we would love more than to ride through the gates with you this OCT, but unfortunately we can no longer move forward with Giddy Up Vegas 2024,” the post read.
“We understand that many of you who have purchased tickets looked at Giddy Up as the must-attend event of the season,” the post continued. “And we are truly sorry. It is not possible to overstate just how seriously we, as producers and promoters, take the decision to cancel this year’s festival.
Organizers offered no further explanation for the sudden decision. All tickets will be refunded to the original payment method within 7-10 business days,” the post concluded.
The country music festival line-up also included Chase Rice, Elle King, Charles Wesley Godwin, and Kameron Marlowe, among many others.
The Signifiance of the Festival
It’s understandably disappointing when any live music event is canceled. However, Giddy Up Las Vegas held other significance for Sin City. It would have been the first country music festival in Las Vegas since the Route 91 Harvest tragedy seven years ago.
The well-documented incident remains the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in U.S. history. The crowd was enjoying country superstar Jason Aldean’s closing performance on Oct. 1, 2017. Then, the shooter opened fire, claiming 60 lives and wounding 800 more.
[RELATED: Jason Aldean Observes Fifth Anniversary of Las Vegas Shooting: “It’s Still a Rough Day”]
Following the 2017 tragedy, organizers Live Nation opted to cancel the 2018 festival. Officials discussed returning in 2019, but the event ultimately never came to fruition.
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