Today we are brought the saddening news that Minecraft Festival has been postponed until Fall of next year. The reasoning cited was extensive preparations are needed for an event this large and with the recent COVID-19 outbreak happening worldwide this makes meeting difficult. September is still half a year away, and no one knows what is going to happen, so please don't take this as an indication to panic. This is a "better safe than sorry" and no wants to continue the spread of this.
If you would like to educate yourself on COVID-19 you can visit this website for full details. https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
With this saddening news, we do have some good news to share. Minecraft Live is still happening and we'll cover more on that at another time.
You can read the official article from Mojang here: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-festival-postponed