2023-06-05 18:00:00
In August, the «Freedom Festival» takes place in Münsingen BE. But following the landowner resisted, bands are already canceling their participation.
the essentials in brief
- Corona skeptics and the conspirator scene are planning an open-air festival.
- The Bernese reggae band “Lauwarm” should also perform.
- But now the musicians have canceled the performance because of the festival sponsors.
Corona skeptics, critics of measures and conspiracy theorists want to meet in Münsingen BE from August 18th to 20th for the first “Freedom Festival”.
But since the sponsors and speakers of the festival have been known, a rough wind has been blowing once morest it. The landowner wants to try with all his might to prevent the open-air event from taking place on his premises.
The Bernese organic farmer says that when he signed the contract, he didn’t know exactly who was behind the event – and who should take part. Now he wants to withdraw from the contract.
The municipality itself also wants to prevent the festival because, according to the mayor, there is great potential for conflict.
The reggae band «Lauwarm» is no longer part of the festival. “Because it is not ours to join corona skeptics or other deniers in any way,” say the Bernese musicians to Nau.ch.
When they were asked by the organizers for an appearance in autumn 2022, no sponsors were known. “When we found out on the website of the festival in question that we mightn’t stand behind many of these sponsors, we decided to cancel the gig in Bern”.
This happened at the end of May, according to band manager Linda Röthlisberger. The band wanted to distance themselves from the skeptic scene.
Since last summer, the band “got caught in a cauldron from which, it seemed, there was no escape”. But that is now being cleared up little by little. “It cannot be that we as individuals are associated with people, dubious and questionable groups and/or parties that we have absolutely nothing to do with.”
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The five reggae musicians have been in the headlines since last summer. Because they caused a woke debate on so-called cultural appropriation. Because they are white and wear dreadlocks, their concert in a pub in Bern was canceled. Guests would have felt “uncomfortable” regarding it.
In October, one of the “Lauwarm” musicians was brutally attacked in front of the Bern Riding School. The reason was the band’s performance at the “Weltwoche” summer festival.
The existing and personally experienced division in society made the band members thoughtful and exhausted, according to Linda Röthlisberger.
Freedom trychler among the festival speakers
At the “Freedom Festival” in Münsingen, not only musicians appear, but above all speakers. They come, for example, from the “Libertarian Party” or from the ranks of “Aufrecht Switzerland”. The website names the “Libertarian Party”, the “Team Freedom” or the Freedom Trychler known from the Corona demos as sponsoring partners.
In addition, the subject of bitcoin is of great importance at the “Freedom Festival”: in addition to the bitcoin podcast “Einundzwanzig”, which also appears as a sponsor, there are also panel discussions on this topic.
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