Desert Daze 2024 has been canceled because of “rising manufacturing prices and the present unstable pageant market,” the occasion’s organizers have introduced.
“As an unbiased pageant, an rising rarity in immediately’s pageant market, Desert Daze is run by a small staff of people that love stay music and this group,” a social assertion reads partially. “Sadly, because of rising manufacturing prices and the present unstable pageant market, it’s now not potential to execute the weekend as deliberate.”
In a separate assertion to the Los Angeles Occasions, pageant founder Phil Pirrone additional cited financial issues. “We tried the whole lot to keep away from this, however this can be a robust yr for everyone. That goes from groceries all the best way to manufacturing prices,” he mentioned. “I believe it goes past the music trade. I believe simply the whole lot is simply too costly proper now. You already know the price of placing on an occasion, whether or not you’re a small pageant or a giant pageant, no one’s proof against it proper now. In case you evaluate the price of placing on a pageant even just a few years in the past, line by line, you’re identical to, wow.”
Topped by Jack White, Cigarettes After Intercourse, Alex G, The Mars Volta, and Thundercat, Desert Daze 2024 was initially slated to go down in Lake Perris, California from October tenth to thirteenth. It had marked the pageant’s return after taking a hiatus in 2023.
— Desert Daze (@desertdaze) August 30, 2024