The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee has been
cancelled due to heavy rains from Hurricane Ida. The organisers of the music
festival said on Tuesday that the waterlogged festival grounds are unsafe for
driving or camping.

The festival, which is held annually, was scheduled to start
on Thursday on the site of a former farm in Manchester, about an hour southeast
of the city of Nashville.

The organisers of the festival said through social media on
Tuesday that tremendous rainfall over the last 24 hours, remnants of Ida’s
powerful winds and rain, has saturated the paths and camping areas on the site.

The festival had earlier warned the fans coming in that the
camping capacity would be reduced because of the rain, but by Tuesday
afternoon, the festival said its central stage area was also waterlogged.

Artists who were scheduled to headline the festival this
year included Tyler, the Creator, deadmau5, Lizzo, My Morning Jacket, Foo
Fighters and Megan Thee Stallion.

The festival was attended by around 80,000 fans in 2019 but
the event could not be organised last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it
was postponed to this year. Now it is again cancelled, this time due to the
weather conditions and the organisers are offering refunds for the disappointed
music fans.

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day
music festival developed and produced by Superfly Presents and AC
Entertainment. Since its first year in 2002, it has been held at what is now
Great Stage Park on a 700-acre (280 ha) farm in Manchester, Tennessee. The
festival typically starts on the second Thursday in June and lasts four days.
It has been held every year except 2020 and 2021. The festival was ranked in
2003 by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the “50 Moments That Changed Rock
& Roll”.