Canceled San Francisco music fest drawing comparisons to Fyre Festival

A San Francisco music festival is being labeled the new Fyre Festival after canceling last minute when the venue pulled the plug.

According to reports, XO Music Festival, run by promoter Sami Habib and touting headliners such as Ludacris, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Fabolous, failed to fulfill its contractual obligations.

Contra Costa Event Park in Antioch, Calif., which was scheduled to host the fest this weekend, released a statement saying it was canceling “due to the promoters’ lack of fulfilling contractual obligations.”

An email obtained by Rolling Stone from the organizers to the performing artists said, “Unfortunately, ticket sales are currently below the level needed to proceed,” but they oddly posted on their official Instagram Wednesday that “regardless of all the fake media. We are still planning our festival. The media is trying to cause issues for us for no apparent reason. We have worked to [sic] hard!”

However, an official website reads: “Despite our best efforts to organize a fun event that would be enjoyed by thousands of people, the venues [sic] cancelation and the many negative media reports targeting the XO Music Festival unfortunately does not allow us to proceed with the festival at this time . . . Refunds have already been processed as of early this morning.”

Tickets reportedly ranged from $375 to $2,495.

The Antioch police posted on its Facebook page that it had “received numerous comments, complaints and concerns” about the fest.

GrowTix, which handled ticket sales for the event, reportedly said in a statement: “We are refunding all ticket holders immediately. This process has already started. Funds were never distributed to the XO festival and held by us in case of cancellation.”

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