In a somewhat surprising move, the Texas Renaissance Festival has announced that they will not ask the Middlelands festival to return in 2018. A spokesperson for the event said:
“TRF is always looking for new ways to bring fun and magic to the Houston area, which is why we partnered with Insomniac, C3 Events and Live Nation, to create the Middlelands music festival on our grounds. Middlelands was a great success and brought over 60,000 people to the area from all over the country and the world. However, after a meeting with executive leadership and based on Texas Renaissance Festival’s overall mission, we’ve have made the decision to not move forward in hosting the event again.”
While the first year event unsurprisingly had some noise complaints, in general the festival was generally seen as having gone off fairly smoothly. The lack of a return invite came as a shock to Insomniac head Pasquale Rotella who made the following post on Instagram: