MANSFIELD — Inkcarceration 2021 has been moved to Sept. 10 to 12, a move organizers say will allow fans to enjoy the complete festival experience.
“Inkcarceration Festival 2021 is a Go!,” according to the festival’s website. “Ohio has laid out our state’s plans for lifting restrictions over the next few months and it’s great news for live music and festivals.”
The three-day event at the former Ohio State Reformatory, where the iconic Shawshank Redemption was filmed, was scheduled for July 23 to 25 after being cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Touted as one of the nation’s premiere rock festivals, it features more than 30 bands on two outdoor stages, 60-plus tattoo artists, gourmet food trucks and more.
“Although we expect summer to be open for business, we want to be able to provide all you Ink fans with the full festival experience you’ve come to know and love, not dicated by limitations,” organizers posted. “With that said, we will be holding the festival this fall to ensure we can reunite in rock for 2021.”
The lineup of bands and ticket sales dates will be announced in April, according to the website.
Since 2018, Inkcarceration has featured some big-name headliners including Godsmack, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Skillet, Bush and Rise Against.
Blink-182, Weezer, Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach were booked for the 2020 festival, as well as Mansfield’s own Sink the Ship, which would have been the first local band to take the stage.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine last week announced benchmarks in terms of COVID-19 cases that would need to be met before all state health orders related to the pandemic can be lifted.
DeWine, saying the COVID-19 “finish line is in sight,” announced March 4 he will lift all health orders when the state falls below 50 new cases per 100,000 residents in a two-week period.
“Achieving this goal is very doable. We can do this and I know we will,” he said.
The governor, declaring COVID-19 vaccines have put the state “on offense” against the virus, made the announcement in a statewide, late-afternoon broadcast, coming nearly one year after the first coronavirus cases were diagnosed in Ohio.
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