Firefly Music Festival officials announced Oct. 27 they will not hold the four-day music event in 2023. A video from this year’s Firefly on their website is accompanied by a message that says, “We’ll be cherishing these moments until we reunite. After 10 magical years of Firefly in the Woodlands, we’ve decided to take a year off to recharge our lights. We will see you in 2024!”
- Blasphemy! — Madeleine Murray
- We went the first and third years. Saw awesome headliners and some good second-tier acts. As the years went on, the headliners were typically one night of a Bob Dylan or a Paul McCartney and two nights of weak acts not ready to headline, with repeats of second-tier acts over and over. In 10 years, they’ve exhausted most of the festival acts anyone wants to see. Can’t book The Killers and similar acts every year, it won’t carry the festival. That and increasing prices, increasing crowd density, increasing safety concerns. These issues surely affect all festivals, but Firefly doesn’t have the draw or the sponsor dollars to compete. It was great early on. Maybe ran its course. Thank you, The Killers, The Wallflowers, Foo Fighters, Third Eye Blind, The Black Keys and a host of newer acts like Arctic Monkeys, American Authors, Group Love, Flaming Lips. But I need new lineups, not rehash. — Glen Goleburn
- Good! Hopefully, they bring some better bands when they come back, or low attendance will repeat itself! — Michael Barnette
- It’s the ticket prices. — Christina Ostland Gallagher
- Get ready for second quarantine. It’s coming right around the corner. — Cliff Reed
- “To recharge our lights” probably means inflation has probably affected ticket sales, and they want to come back when the economy does. — Richard Kerchevall
- They’ve lost their way. — Brian Moore
- Us old heads don’t care because they never booked any real rock bands anyway. Book Metallica, Ozzy, AC/DC. We’ll come out in droves, believe me. Till then, good riddance. — Jim Nickerson
- And then, no one will go because the tickets will be $2,000 per day. Good thinking. — Nik Yrk
- There goes my camping out next year. — Myleiris Vazquez
- Bottom line, if they had made a great profit, they would not be skipping a year! — Gerald Jerry Rice
- Didn’t they already take a “break” in 2020? — Cathy Gorak Platt
- Do you understand the economic impact a festival of this size brings to our local economy? — Pat Smith
- Bring back decent lineups and somewhat affordable tickets. No one wants to pay the same price for a ticket as a camping pass. #makefireflygreatagain. — Aimee Lee
• It will give us locals a break with the intense crowds. — Mandi Men
