After discovering a house in Chicago for the final 19 years, Pitchfork Music Pageant is leaving the town.
The pageant in 2005 took over Chicago’s Union Park for its debut and has since returned annually apart from 2020, when a lot of the reside music trade shuttered as a result of influence of COVID-19. Sadly for followers trying to rejoice the occasion’s twentieth anniversary, its organizers have introduced that it will not return to the Windy Metropolis subsequent yr.
“This decision was not made lightly,” the pageant’s organizers mentioned in a assertion shared throughout its web site and social media. “For 19 years, Pitchfork Music Festival has been a celebration of music, art and community — a space where memories were made, voices were amplified and the shared love of music brought us all together.”
Little did they know on the time, however attendees of final summer season’s Pitchfork Music Pageant have been the final to get pleasure from it in Chicago. The 2024 occasion featured performances by Jamie xx, 100 gecs, Carly Rae Jepsen, Yaeji, De La Soul and Grandmaster Flash, amongst others.
With no particular cause given for the transfer, the way forward for Pitchfork Music Pageant is unsure on the time of this writing. Organizers declare they may proceed to host occasions subsequent yr and past, however haven’t but confirmed whether or not or not their flagship fest will happen in any respect in 2025.
You possibly can learn Pitchfork‘s full assertion beneath.
Nineteen years of music and reminiscences. Thanks, Chicago. pic.twitter.com/SmNEXHwKiV
— Pitchfork Music Pageant Chicago (@pitchforkfest) November 11, 2024
