Travis Scott will no longer perform as a headliner at next year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The announcement comes after last month’s mass casualty event that occurred during the rapper’s set at his festival Astroworld, and resulted in the deaths of ten attendees.
Scott was first confirmed as a Coachella headliner in 2020 and was set to lead the festival alongside Rage Against The Machine. In the wake of the Astroworld tragedy, a Change.org petition was created, demanding his removal from Coachella’s lineup. So far, 60,000 people have signed the online petition. Coachella informed Scott’s longtime agent, Cara Lewis, of its plan to remove Scott from the roster and pay a kill fee for the cancelation. It’s unclear who will replace Scott, but Coachella revealed Swedish House Mafia as its third headliner in October.
In the weeks following the tragedy, Scott has issued a formal apology and offered to pay for the victims’ funerals, but his offer was mostly turned down. Last week, in his first interview since Astroworld, the rapper sat down with Charlamagne Tha God where he said he had no idea people were injured or dead until the police press conference late Friday, November 5.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is scheduled to take place on the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California.
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