Norwegian music lovers were barred entry from parts of the Hove Festival area after a man collapsed and died on the main stage.
A man who was double-checking the security set-up at the Hove Festival near Arendal in Norway collapsed on the main stage, local police officers confirmed on Twitter on Wednesday.
Despite attempts from onlookers to come to the man's aid, he was soon after declared dead.
"There has been no crime, and it is not an accident," police spokeswoman Gunn Lieng told the local Agderposten newspaper.
The police have said they believe the man died from a health condition.
France's famous summer music festival the Fête de la musique will go ahead, but with health restrictions in place, says the culture minister.
Culture minister Roselyn Bachelot, taking part in a Q&A session with readers of French newspaper le Parisien, confirmed that the annual summer festival will go ahead this year on its usual date of June 21st.
The festival date is normally marked with thousands of events across France, from concerts in tiny villages to huge open-air events in big cities and street-corner gigs in local neighbourhoods.
Last year the festival did go ahead, in a scaled-down way, and Bachelot confirmed that the 2021 event will also happen, but with restrictions.
She said: “It will be held on 21st June and will not be subject to the health passport.
“People will be able to dance, but it will be a masked party with an 11pm curfew.”
Under France’s phased reopening plan, larger events will be allowed again from June 9th, but some of them will require a health passport (with either a vaccination certificate or a recent negative test) to enter.
The Fête de la musique, however, is generally focused around lots of smaller neighbourhood concerts.
The curfew is being gradually moved back throughout the summer before – if the health situation permits – being scrapped entirely on June 30th.
Bachelot added: “I appeal to everyone’s responsibility.
“The rate of 50 percent of people vaccinated should have been reached by then, so we will reach an important level of immunity.”
The Fête de la musique is normally France’s biggest street party, with up to 18,000 events taking place across the country on the same day.
It’s hugely popular, despite being (whisper it) the idea of an American – the concept is the brainchild of American Joel Cohen, when he was working as a music producer for French National Radio (France Musique) in the 1970s.
By 1982 the French government put its weight behind the idea and made it an official event and it’s been a fixture in the calendar ever since.
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