Jonny Lang Will No Longer Appear at the 2010 Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival
August 5, 2010
Programming the 20th anniversary edition of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival is once again testing the mettle of organizers, who today announced that headliner Jonny Lang has cancelled his performance at the event.
Organizers will announce a replacement act tomorrow.
“We’re obviously feeling a little punch-drunk right now,” says Brent Staeben, the Festival’s Music Director. “This series of coincidental cancellations has made for a very trying summer for us, but we know that the bigger our festival becomes, the greater the probability we’ll have to deal with some complications – we just never imagined it would be this many! Our team has been facing each of these challenges head on to ensure that, no matter the bumps along the way, the end result will be the best possible Festival we can produce. Nothing less will suffice.”
Lang is the third major act Harvest has been forced to replace for the September 14th – 19th Festival. Champion and his G-Strings were replaced by Big Sam’s Funky Nation after bandleader Maxime Morin was diagnosed with Leukemia, and Gregg Allman was replaced with the Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Band after Allman underwent a liver transplant.
Jonny Lang’s management issued this statement to his Harvest fans:
“Jonny Lang expresses his regrets for his inability to perform at the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival. He greatly appreciates his fans’ understanding and is working on rescheduling the show sometime in the future.”
Lang’s management said the cancellation was due to a personal conflict for the artist that weekend. Published reports have said that Lang’s wife will give birth to their third child around the date of the Festival.
“We’ve bounced back from each of these setbacks by booking some pretty awesome acts,” says Festival Chair, Brad Wasson. “Lang’s are certainly big shoes to fill, but we have every confidence that our music director will pull off another Olympian feat by booking an act of the same calibre.”
Any refunds will be processed following tomorrow’s replacement announcement.
