Less than two days after the organizers argued successfully that their Northwoods music fest should go forward, the Hodag Country Festival announced it will cancel its 2020 event.
A country music festival with expected attendance of more than 16,000 people per day is among the first major gatherings in Wisconsin approved to move forward amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of Wisconsin's coronavirus cases are concentrated in urban areas. In rural communities, some say places with few cases shouldn't be subject to the same restrictions.
Gov. Tony Evers laid out a plan on April 20 to reopen the state economy, as the state Department of Health Services announced there are 4,499 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin.
