Woodstock 50 Ticket On-Sale Date Postponed

There is no better feeling than getting your festival tickets in the mail and knowing that you’re officially set to go see your favorite bands. Woodstock 50 is making us wait even longer for that satisfaction by pushing there on-sale date back from its original date of April 22.

On Friday agents received an email regarding the on-sale push back for the festival on August 16-18 at the Watkins Glen International speedway saying “There is currently a hold on the Woodstock 50 on-sale date. We are waiting on an official press statement from Woodstock 50 regarding updated announce, ticket pricing., and overall festival information. We will get this information to you as soon as we receive it.”

Even though there has been no official reason for the push back publicly released there are speculations that one possible reason for the delay is that as of Friday the festival didn’t have a mass gathering permit from the New York State Department of Health, Pitchfork reports.

“The health department is reviewing to determine if a conditional permit may be issued that would allow for ticket sales to commence,” Tim O’Hearn, administrator of Schuyler County (including Watkins Glen) told the publication. “At this point there is no on-sale date set.” He disclosed that Watkins Glen International had, in fact, filed a mass gathering permit application on April 15th to DOH.

Without this permit the festival is not allowed to sell tickets. Woodstock co-founder Michael Land spoke on the speculations that the festival is on its way to being canceled all together. “Woodstock is a phenomenon that for 50 years has drawn attention to its principles and also the rumors that can be attached to that attention,” he told Billboard.