Modern Sky streams festivals for housebound fans

Modern Sky, China’s biggest festival promoter, streamed past editions of its Strawberry Music Festival to fans forced to stay indoors by the coronavirus outbreak.

At the time of writing, more than 900 people have died in mainland China from the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) which emerged in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. Fears over the virus have led to the cancellation of a number of concerts in China and east/south-east Asia, with other public events also affected.

The video streams kicked off last Tuesday (4 February) and feature past performances from Strawberry festivals in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Changchun. The streams began at 4pm local time and ran until 10pm, broadcast on Bilibili, one of China’s most-visited anime, comics and games (ACG) sites.

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