Norwegian Festival Will Go Ahead
The Øya Festival will take place next month despite Oslo massacre...
Øya Festival, Norway's biggest festival, will go ahead as planned, despite the massacre in the city last weekend.
The event is due to take place in Medieval Park between August 9 and 13, with Pulp, Fleet Foxes and Warpaint all playing.
Speaking to CMU, festival director Claes Olsen explained, "The last few days have been heavy and unreal. Our thoughts go out to everyone who has lost someone or in some other way has been affected by the tragedy in the centre of Oslo and at Utøya.
"In the midst of all this, we find it important that our city and its citizens shall not be broken by what happened this weekend. Organisers of concerts and events in Oslo have jointly agreed that this shall not stop us. The police, the government and the general audience have expressed a strong wish that Oslo resumes some kind of normality as soon as possible. Together with the population of Oslo and visitors from abroad we wish to take our city back."
Tagged as Pulp, Fleet Foxes, Festivals
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