SAN DIEGO — There will be no Encore Weekend after all for the 2022 edition of the Ohana Festival at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point.
The marathon Oct. 8 and 9 music event has been canceled.
The 6-year-old festival is curated by Pearl Jam singer and former San Diegan Eddie Vedder and presented in partnership with Live Nation.
On June 13, Ohana's publicity team announced that Vedder, Alanis Morissette, The Black Keys and Haim will headline Ohana's Encore weekend in early October.
The festival's second weekend was added following the April announcement that Vedder, Stevie Nicks and Pink are the headliners for Ohana's 2022 kickoff weekend, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. It is going on as planned.
The only reason Ohana has offered so far for the cancellation of its Encore Weekend are "circumstances beyond out control." All references to the Encore Weekend have been removed from the event's website and social media pages. According to an email sent to ticketholders, refunds are being sent by Front Gate Tickets.
Encore Weekend's cancellation is not an anomaly. A growing number of other festivals this year have fallen through, coast to coast.
Viva! L.A., a star-studded June 25 Latin music festival at Dodger Stadium, was canceled on June 3 because of undefined "recent setbacks." The smooth-jazz-fueled Orlando Music Festival, which was scheduled for the July Fourth weekend, was canceled in June "due to unforeseen circumstances." The 2022 Day N Vegas Festival, a hip-hop marathon that was set for Labor Day weekend, was canceled because of what its promoter cited as "a combination of logistics, timing and production issues."
Closer to home, the KAABOO festival, which was last held in 2019, was canceled in 2020 and then postponed from 2021 to 2022, although no dates, talent lineups or venue were ever disclosed.
No dates or performers were announced for this year, either, and it is unclear where KAABOO, if it returns, would take place. The festival's future may ultimately be determined by ongoing litigation filed earlier this year in courts in San Diego and Delaware.
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