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Maryland Doom Fest 2020 Canceled

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It would’ve been too good to be true, and yet somehow completely in character for Maryland Doom Fest that even with the rest of the world falling apart around it, the doom persisted in 2020. I don’t know what shape the festival would’ve taken, but after an initial rescheduling in May that would’ve made the multi-day event take place over Halloween weekend for the first time — a fitting timing, if chillier than June in Frederick, MD — it’s been called off altogether due to the ongoing restrictions placed on venues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you, like me, were hoping this one would pull it out, this is a bummer you probably have been or at least should have been expecting.

Next weekend, Maryland Doom Fest will present a birthday celebration for Scott “Wino” Weinrich that will be headlined by the man himself playing acoustic and feature a host of others from the Chesapeake region, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I’ve included the link for that below, just to have something positive in here, and there will reportedly be a Halloween thing as well on a limited basis that the details haven’t been announced for yet.

It goes without saying that this needed to happen, but it’s still hard to take. Like the best of festivals anywhere in the world, Maryland Doom Fest is put together out of love and passion alone. Nobody’s getting rich of running it, and if you go and see familiar faces it’s because when you’re there they embrace you like family. I will miss seeing these people and being exposed over the course of four days to a completely unmanageable onslaught of live music. It just doesn’t seem to be the world we live in anymore.

Their statement is in the image below. Click it to enlarge, click it again to shrink it back:

maryland doom fest 2020 canceled

MDDF Presents:

MDDF Presents WINO’S BIRTHDAY BASH!!
SEP 26 – 5PM
Cafe 611, 611 N Market St, Frederick, MD 21701
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Maryland Doom Fest 2020 playlist

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