As festival season looms on the horizon, Florida's Okeechobee Festival has announced that it will take a yearlong hiatus, and skip its usual March weekend. "After much consideration and looking at many different options, we have decided to take a fallow year and not hold our annual Okeechobee Fest in 2019," they wrote. However, organizers have assured fans that Okeechobee will return. "While the OMF portal won’t be opening in 2019, we’re looking to March 2020, and we can’t wait to see you again," they wrote. "Thank you for your love, support and understanding." Okechobee 2018 featured headliners like Arcade Fire, Bassnectar, Halsey, Snoop Dogg and Travis Scott. Read the full message and watch the festival's 2018 recap video below: Greetings Okeechobeeings, After much consideration and looking at many different options, we have decided to take a fallow year and not hold our annual Okeechobee Fest in 2019. For the past three years, we have witnessed 100,000 strangers from all walks of life, come together to our home of Sunshine Grove in Okeechobee, Florida, to live, laugh, listen, sing, dance, learn, create, meditate, downward dog, eat & drink, explore, give back, embrace and live OMF’s mantra to Be, Here, Now. Now that’s love. As we pause for a moment and look back, we are incredibly humbled by the love and spirit you have shown us each and every year at OMF. This tight knit community of fans, attendees, musicians, artists and staff that we’ve built together truly belongs to everyone. We are happy and grateful to consider each of you our family. While the OMF portal won’t be opening in 2019, we’re looking to March 2020, and we can’t wait to see you again. Thank you for your love, support and understanding. Until we meet again, Team Okeechobee
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