Organizers have revealed that the 2024 version of the Desert Daze Festival is not going to be happening this 12 months in spite of everything.

Jack White, Cigarettes After Sex, The Mars Volta, Liz Phair, Power Trip, The Kills and extra had been on board to play the annual music competition, which was set to happen Oct. 10-13 in Lake Perris, California.

An announcement posted to the competition web site cited “rising production costs and the current volatile festival market” because the reasoning for the cancelation of the occasion.

The full assertion reads as follows:

We are heartbroken to announce that Desert Daze – scheduled for October 10-13, 2024 in Lake Perris, CA – is canceled. Pass holders can be refunded, and can be contacted instantly through their level of buy.

As an unbiased competition, an growing rarity in immediately’s competition market, Desert Daze is run by a small workforce of people that love reside music and this group. Unfortunately, as a consequence of rising manufacturing prices and the present unstable competition market, it’s now not doable to execute the weekend as deliberate.

With annually, we do our greatest to serve the Desert Daze group. We are all the time studying and dealing diligently to enhance the expertise, and we tried every thing to discover a manner ahead.

From the underside of our hearts, we thanks on your help. Desert Daze is greater than a competition or enterprise enterprise to us. The group that we have cultivated collectively means a lot to us which explains we’ll proceed to work to discover a option to hold this stunning factor going for a few years to return. While we hit pause for now, we can be working within the background to ship one other particular expertise for all of us to share sooner or later.

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While the competition itself is not going to happen, Billboard studies that aspect reveals underneath the Desert Daze Presents banner will go ahead as scheduled.