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If you’re Kanye West and your headlining performance gets rained out, what do festival organizers do? Give you your very own festival…duh.

Although his Governors Ball 2016 performance was canceled due to inclement weather, West will return to New York City to headline the inaugural Meadows Festival in Queens, New York. Meadows Fest is the newest music festival to hit NYC.

The two-day festival, held October 1 and 2, will feature Kanye and The Weeknd as headliners, as well as performances by Chance The Rapper, Pusha T, Bryson Tiller, Grimes, Mac Miller, and many more.

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In a statement, festival organizers explained why they decided to go with Kanye:

“The booking of Kanye West was born out of his weather-related cancelled appearance at Governors Ball 2016. Founders Entertainment saw a booking for West at the new the Meadows Music and Arts Festival as a way to follow through on bringing him to New York City for his only North American festival appearance in 2016.”

Unfortunately for music lovers, Meadows Fest is scheduled to go down the same weekend as The Roots’ inaugural New York City edition of the Roots Picnic.

Pre-sale tickets for Meadows will go on sale June 23 at 11 a.m. EST on Ticketmaster.

PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

Kanye West Gets His Own Music Festival In NYC  was originally published on globalgrind.com