Fyre Fest 2 been postponed by organizers, according to multiple reports. Ticketholders have been promised a refund.
Billy McFarland visits"JesseWatters Primetime" at Fox News Studios on Aug. 25, 2023 in New York City.‘s attempted second iteration of the failed 2017 Fyre Festival, has been postponed by organizers, according to multiple reports.
reports that Fyre Fest 2 organizers messaged ticket holders on Wednesday stating, “The event has been postponed and a new date will be announced. We have issued you a refund. Once the new date is announced, at that time, you can repurchase if it works for your schedule.” Fyre Fest 2 was scheduled to take place in Mexico from May 30 to June 2, with tickets starting at $1,400. Those entry-level tickets and all of the festival’s higher-priced offerings are no longer available for purchase on the festival’s website, which lists every ticket option as “sold out.” reached out to the festival for confirmation of the postponement but did not hear back by press time. While Fyre Fest 2’s social media has not commented on the reported postponement, it was still advertising merchandise just minutes ago on Instagram. The reported postponement comes just over a week after Fyre Fest founder and convicted fraudster McFarland pushed back against government officials in Mexico who had raised doubts about the festival. Hours after the city council of Playa del Carmen, a seaside resort town along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, took to X to announce it had no record of the festival happening in the city, McFarlandcalling media reports of the news “inaccurate” and “based on misinformation.” He then shared about a dozen documents on the festival’s Instagram account detailing its alleged work with Playa del Carmen government officials to secure the proper permits for the festival, which has long been billed as a redemption project for McFarland following his disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas. For that event, ticket holders were promised a luxury destination music festival only to find, on arrival at Great Exuma island, that the event they were promised was completely unrealized. to stage the event on Isla Mujeres, an island in the Caribbean Sea about a 30-minute ferry ride from Cancun, Mexico. But in March, tourism officials there told multiple media outlets they had no knowledge of the festival happening on the island. McFarland ended up serving a four-year prison sentence for misleading investors about the 2017 Fyre Festival project. Since in 2022, he has promised to stage a makeup event to clean up his image and help repay the $26 million he owes his victims in restitution.
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