Poor weather in Chicago over the past couple days has left the Pitchfork Music Festival in a state of of disarray.  After a rough Day 2, where the festival was completely evacuated then restarted, Day 3 is facing similar issues.  Pitchfork tweeted at 12:25 PM that they would be holding the gates until 12:45 PM.  They then postponed the opening of the festival indefinitely in another tweet roughly 15 minutes later, before deciding to finally start the festival in a third tweet a half hour later.  Fortunately, the weather issues have had minimal impact on the performance schedule, with only two artists missing out yesterday, and only one today.

Given the weather, we are holding gates until 12:30pm. Stay tuned for updates.

— Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago (@pitchforkfest) July 21, 2019

Due to threats of lightning in the area, we are continuing to hold gates until at least 12:45pm. We will update as soon as we have more information.

— Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago (@pitchforkfest) July 21, 2019

There continues to be lightning in the area. We will continue to hold gates until further notice and hope to be open soon.

— Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago (@pitchforkfest) July 21, 2019

We will be opening gates momentarily. Flasher will kick things off on the Red Stage.

— Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago (@pitchforkfest) July 21, 2019