John Fogerty pulls out of troubled Woodstock 50 festival, report says

John Fogerty has pulled out of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, according to a report by Variety.

The news of Fogerty’s decision not to perform comes amid reports festival organizers are now planning to hold the festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland instead of a previously-scheduled site in New York.

According to Variety, representatives for Fogerty — who performed at the original Woodstock festival as the frontman of Creedence Clearwater Revival — said in a statement that the artist “knows where he will be for the anniversary weekend of Woodstock.”

“At only one site … at the original one — the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.”

The festival, scheduled for August 16 to 18 in New York state, has been plagued by setbacks. Back in April, a marketing firm that was financing the festival opted to pull out, with executives telling festival organizers they were canceling the event.

But organizers, including promoter Michael Lang, one of the creators of the original festival in 1969, said it wasn’t up to the firm to cancel the festival, and they trudged on.

Last month, festival officials announced the scheduled venue for Woodstock 50, Watkins Glen International, had pulled out.

“We are in discussions with another venue to host Woodstock 50 on August 16th-18th and look forward to sharing the new location when tickets go on sale in the coming weeks,” Gregory Peck, a managing organizer of the festival, told CNN in a statement at the time.

Back in March, some of the music industry’s biggest names were announced as headliners, including Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus and Chance the Rapper.