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Aug. 22, 2025

Promoter sues Live Nation over cancelled HBCU fundraiser concert

Fifth Degree Tours sues Live Nation for $65 million, alleging wrongful cancellation of HBCU benefit concert Jam Fest, withheld profits, and damaging business tactics that crippled the promoter's future opportunities.

An independent concert promoter's $65 million federal complaint accuses Live Nation of unlawfully canceling their scholarship fundraiser concert, keeping the profits, and using deceptive and unfair business practices to shut them out of the industry.

Central to the complaint is the permanent cancellation of Jam Fest, an outdoor concert in North Carolina produced by Fifth Degree Tours #2 last year as a scholarship fundraiser for Winston-Salem State University, a historically Bl...

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