For the second year in a row, the Tønder Festival lost a headliner.
Arlo Guthrie has announced the organizers in Jutland, that he still doesn't show up. It happens a few weeks after the Barrels early on in the year came out, the american troubadour was among the headliners in 2020.
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the Festival has not got a concrete justification for Arlo Guthries to cancel.
Last year lost Barrels of capacity John Prine, who, however, has instead promised to come for the summer, where the songwriter from Chicago is at the top of the poster.
The traditional festival in the area at the same time with the Arlo Guthries cancellation announced the following names: Mary Gauthier, Irish Mythen, Còig, Blazin’ Fiddles, Cedric Burnside, Saint Sister, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, as well as a Danish tribute concert to Leonard Cohen.
In advance were among others Keb’ Mo’, Ryan Bingham, The Secret Sisters and, not least, John Prine on the program. More follows in the coming months.
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the Festival will as always take place over four days in the last weekend of august.
Ticket sales have begun. The barrels were sold out for the first time in the festival's history in 2018, and the event was also sold out in 2019.
The Secret Sisters on the Barrels in the year 2018 - the sisters from Alabama going again this summer. Photo: Per Lange
