The 2025 Faster Horses Festival, which has been held at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan since 2013, will not return this summer.
The three-day 2024 Faster Horses festival featured headliners Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Hardy, along with performances from Cody Johnson, Riley Green, Shane Smith and the Saints, Zach Top and more.
A message on the festival’s website announced what it described as a “pause” this year: “Dear fans, we have made the decision to pause Faster Horses Festival in 2025. We are taking the year to make plans for a bigger and better Faster Horses for our fans who deserve the absolute best. We love our friends at Michigan International Speedway, the community, and all of those all those behind the scenes. While we hope to bring you something in the future, for now we encourage you to keep the community strong and support live music in Michigan!”
Faster Horses has had the reputation in past years for being rowdy in the on-site camping areas, where fans created weekend communities centered around partying. In 2023, Rolling Stone wrote an investigate feature about the 2021 festival, where four fans died, including three young men who were poisoned by carbon monoxide in their camper trailer. The families of the victims accused Live Nation and the Michigan International Speedway of creating unsafe camping conditions, with a Michigan appeals court upheld a decision finding Live Nation not liable for the deaths last October.
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