Blended Pageant CEO abruptly cancels fest

Is it Fyre Festival meets “Bad Vegan?”

Sean Evans, founder and CEO of a preferred touring “wine and music” fest referred to as Blended Festival has “gone lacking,” allegedly “leaving lots of of staff, distributors, expertise and traders holding their palms out to receives a commission,” an insider instructed Web page Six.

The fest’s first live performance happened on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 in Nashville with acts comparable to Lil Jon and the Chainsmokers headlining. Rapper T.I., G-Eazy, Loud Luxurious and others have been set to hit the stage for numerous different dates, together with upcoming reveals in Tampa, Fla., this month.

However Evans allegedly went lacking after the Nashville dates, and is being accused of “racking up over $6 million in unpaid debt from the pageant,” we’re instructed.

An Instagram account for the pageant, which is run by a 3rd occasion, offered an replace “to valued ticket holders” final Thursday, alleging Evans “has been absent as of October 1st. He disabled workers emails and left the staff with no solutions to be discovered,” it learn.

We obtained an e mail that seems to have been despatched from Evans on Oct. 5 that learn: “Yesterday morning, I skilled a minor coronary heart assault, particularly a type of cardiomyopathy… It’s been a bit scary… I’ve received some life-style choices to make. I’m in all probability going to maneuver to e mail just for a short time so I can handle the quantity of enter I obtain.”

Insiders, nevertheless, are skeptical of his well being claims, telling Web page Six, “the legitimacy of this declare is questionable, and nobody can discover proof of his being hospitalized.” 

He allegedly adopted that e mail with one other notice on Oct. 10, through which he wrote that the pageant and his firm, My Wine Society, “can be dissolving and ceasing enterprise exercise whereas we seek for a possible acquirer for the model IP (if one exists).”

He additional warned, “should you’re receiving this, authorized recommends that you don’t talk to anybody concerning MWS or Blended Fest affairs with out consulting them first as you possibly can unintentionally implicate or current your self or the corporate within the fallacious method.” 

Evans didn’t return calls, emails and textual content messages, after a number of makes an attempt to achieve him.