{
  "id": 9171134,
  "title": "MAGA Festival Featuring Kid Rock Canceled After Just 6 VIP Tickets Sold: ‘Rich People, as a Whole, Suck’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/maga-festival-featuring-kid-rock-canceled-after-just-6-vip-tickets",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-22T17:57:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/freedom-fest-kid-rock-canceled-low-vip-ticket-sales-1236344581/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The conservative festival Freedom Fest, held in the Cincinnati area, has been canceled this year, according to organizer Eric Deters. The event, scheduled for 2026, was expected to be funded through VIP ticket sales of $1,000 each from 100 regular contacts, but only six tickets were sold, as Deters informed in a Facebook Live on September 21. In an initial Facebook livestream, Deters criticized rich people, stating, \"Rich people, as a whole, suck.\" He later clarified that the cancellation was not due to a lack of interest from the general public, as MAGA supporters had always attended and turned out at previous events. The festival, which was set to take place at Deters' farm in Northern Kentucky near Cincinnati, was scheduled for September 26. This year's lineup included Kid Rock and U.S. Rep. James Comer, while past events had featured Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Candace Owens. Deters emphasized in a second livestream that the cancellation had nothing to do with Kid Rock, describing him as a good person.",
  "summary": "Organizer Eric Deters indicated that he'd expected around 100 people to buy VIP entry for Freedom Fest.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}