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Bonnaroo Music Festival To Require Proof Of Vaccination Or Negative COVID Test For Entry

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The music festival Bonnaroo is one of Tennessee's most popular music festivals. But COVID and then weather cancelled the 2020 and 2021 events, respectively.
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Bonnaroo joined several of Nashville’s independent music venues, as well as other festivals like Pitchfork Music Festival, in putting in place more COVID restrictions.

The popular Manchester, Tenn., festival will check for proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test, it announced Tuesday.

The festival is quickly approaching on Sept. 2-5. Attendees have until Aug. 19 to get the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. It takes a two-week period to be fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

While Bonnaroo “strongly encourages” the vaccine, a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the festival will also suffice.

Unvaccinated attendees should wear a mask, the festival says, and all attendees will be required to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

The festival usually draws nearly 80,000 people to the 650-acre farm.

More health and safety guidelines for Bonnaroo are available online.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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