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\n\tFaster Horses, the country music<\/a> festival held at Michigan International Speedway since 2013, will not return this summer. A message<\/a> on the festival\u2019s website announced what it described as a \u201cpause\u201d for 2025.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDear fans,\u201d the letter read, \u201cwe have made the decision to pause Faster Horses Festival<\/a> in 2025. We are taking the year to make plans for a bigger and better Faster Horses for our fans who deserve the absolute best.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFaster Horses, operated by Live Nation, was one of the live music<\/a> company\u2019s tentpole country fests, alongside April\u2019s Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and August\u2019s Watershed Music Festival at the Gorge in Washington state. Both of those festivals are slated to proceed as planned.<\/p>\n \n\tOf the three, Faster Horses had a reputation for being the most rowdy, especially in the on-site camping areas, where fans created weekend communities centered around partying. In 2023, Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote<\/a> an investigate feature about the 2021 festival, where four fans died, including three young men who were poisoned by carbon monoxide in their camper trailer.<\/p>\n \n\tInvestigators found that the camper\u2019s generator had been installed in the wrong direction outside the trailer, blowing exhaust back into the cabin where the men were sleeping. Two other people were also in the trailer, but they survived. The families of the victims accused Live Nation and the Michigan International Speedway of creating unsafe camping conditions. Last October, a Michigan appeals court upheld a decision<\/a> finding Live Nation not liable for the deaths.<\/p>\n \n\tThe festival\u2019s statement failed to definitively say that the festival would return next year. \u201cWe love our friends at Michigan International Speedway, the community, and all of those behind the scenes,\u201d it read. \u201cWhile we hope to bring you something in the future, for now we encourage you to keep the community strong and support live music in Michigan!\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2024 Faster Horses festival was headlined by Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, and Hardy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n