VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — It is one of the biggest concert events in our region, drawing in tens of thousands of fans each year — but in 2024, it instead drew in disappointment.
Something in the Water, the multi-day music festival by Pharrell Williams, was postponed from October of 2024 to April of 2025, just a few hours after tickets went on sale.
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Tuesday afternoon, the Virginia Beach City Council is slated to provide an update about the future of the festival and its relationship to the city. This comes about a month after Virginia Beach city leaders unanimously put conditions on festival organizers.
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Since Williams’ music festival started a few years ago, it was held in April. Bad weather caused delays and cancelations for parts of the show in both 2019 and 2023.
Earlier this year, it was confirmed that SITW 2024 would take place Oct. 12-13. Tickets went on sale weeks beforehand with no lineup announced. Despite this, lines wrapped around the box office as hoards of loyal fans snagged their tickets for the festival. Hours later, the festival was postponed to April of 2025. Williams said they were just not ready yet.