Late Tuesday afternoon, after the Phoenix 8 Days a Week section had gone to press, it was announced by J.T. Duffy of the Equinox Music Festival that all the remaining concerts for this year’s Equinox Festival had been "postponed." As of yet, there are no new dates scheduled. The canceled concerts include the Omar Sosa Octet on Thursday, September 25 at the Somerville Theatre; Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra with special guest Steve Lacy on September 26 at the Berklee Performance Center; Anthony Brown and Manny Oquendo’s noon concert on September 27 at the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center; Manny Oquendo y Libre on September 27 at 8 p.m. at the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center; and the free outdoor concert scheduled for City Hall Plaza on Sunday, September 28. Refunds are available at point of purchase.

"We’ve had a confluence of things happen in the past week with a lack of support that was anticipated, poor attendance, and poor advance sales that put us in a position of not being able to continue," Duffy, president of Equinox, told the Phoenix. The three-year-old Equinox Festival developed out of the annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, organized by Duffy and JCMC organizers Leonard Brown and Bill Lowe. This year was Equinox’s most ambitious yet, and about five events had already taken place before Equinox decided to pull the plug. The September 20 Coltrane concert, the 26th annual, with special guest Pharoah Sanders, drew about 600 people to the 1050-seat Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University (its traditional location). But, Duffy said, there were fewer than 100 people in the audience when the show was repeated at the 1600-seat Mechanics Hall in Worcester the following evening.

Duffy insisted that the remaining concerts will be rescheduled and that "Equinox is still in business.... We’re going to regroup, reorganize, and come out swinging."