Late last year, it was announced that New York City’s CMJ Music Marathon would return for the first time in five years. The week-long multi-venue festival was initially launched in 1978, and ran through 2015.
However following a change in ownership and a string of legal issues, the event’s future was uncertain. Now, the British platform Amazing Radio has announced the acquisition of the CMJ brand.
Amazing Radio had planned to re-launch CMJ in New York this fall, along with an American version of Amazing Radio, however the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has potentially altered those plans.
The current merging of Amazing Radio U.S. and CMJ will include online streams and virtual concerts to assist musicians affected by coronavirus-related concert