Thousands march to demand a return of Dutch music festivals

AMSTERDAM (AP) — People are protesting successful the streets of Dutch cities to telephone for an extremity to the government’s prohibition connected ample euphony festivals. Thousands of radical attended 1 of the “Unmute Us” marches successful Amsterdam, walking and dancing down a convoy of trucks carrying DJs and dependable systems pumping retired music. The Dutch authorities has banned large-scale events specified arsenic euphony festivals until astatine slightest Sept. 19 amid fears implicit the dispersed of the highly infectious delta variant. Protesters privation the prohibition lifted connected Sept. 1. They accidental different festivals, specified arsenic this summer’s Lollapalooza euphony festival successful Chicago, person not turned into superspreading events.