COVID-19 is affecting the electronic music scene

Here's how the coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, affects festivals, clubs, promoters, and the electronic music scene in general.

We just got information from promoter in Tirana, Albania that says "all massive, sport, cultural and other public gathering is forbiden untill 3rd of April" and this is announcment from thir govermnt. So, all events with electronic music too are canceled. 

Situation on Kosovo is still good. Lets hope will stay like that 🙏🏻😇

All other information we took from our favorite portal of electronic music RA. 

• • All of Italy will be placed under lockdown starting on Tuesday, as part of a decree by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti. Conditions already imposed on Northern Italy will be extended to the entire country—some 60 million people—which includes prohibition on all non-essential travel and the closure of nightclubs, venues, gyms and other gathering spaces.


• • Get Lost's 24-hour Miami party, planned for March 21st, has been postponed. The March 9th announcement says, "Our new location for the event that we have been working on for six months is based in the district of Hialeah, whose city officials last Thursday announced a ban on all public gatherings due to fears of the COVID-19 virus spreading."


• • The French government has banned events with more than 1,000 people from March 8th through April 13th, Le Monde reports, heightening its previous call to halt 5,000-capacity events. Concrete's Brice Coudert expressed frustration with the move. 


• • A note posted on the South By Southwest website on March 6th indicated the City Of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW. "We are devastated to share this news with you. 'The show must go on' is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation," it reads, adding that the festival honors and respects the city's decision.


• • Organik Festival has cancelled its 2020 edition in Taiwan. The Smoke Machine-run event announced the news via Facebook on March 6th. "There was no other option but to cancel the festival for this year," organisers said. Organik 2020 was supposed to take place from April 24th through the 27th.


• • Bangface Weekender announced on March 5th that this month's festival, set for March 12th through 16th, will go on as planned. "This is following the government's announcementon Tuesday that there are no immediate plans to ban large public gatherings," the team wrote on Facebook.


• • Marrakech festival Beat Hotel has been postponed as a result of Moroccan government's ban on large gatherings.


• • Miami's Ultra Music Festival has been cancelled.


• • France's Tomorrowland Winter has been cancelled by the government.


• • The Swiss Federal Council banned events with greater than 1,000 people from February 28th through March 15th, forcing local clubs and promoters to adjust their programming. Audio Club confirmed to RA that it would be closing its second room and bar in order to operate under the capacity limit and remain open, a move the venue said others in the country were making.


• • Sónar's Hong Kong edition has been postponed.


• • Mass cancellation and closings of festivals, parties and venues across Asia, affecting the scene in Chengdu, Hong Kong, Singapore and further afield: an in-depth report by Nyshka Chandran.