Burna Boy cancels Colours of Ostrava performance

Nigerian artist Burna Boy cancelled his performance at the Colours of Ostrava festival on Friday night due to an engine malfunction on the plane that was taking him there, the Czech News Agency reports. Festival director Zlata Holušová had to announce the cancellation to a crowd of waiting fans.

The festival organisers wrote in a Facebook post that despite efforts to postpone the concert to a later time, the engine malfunction could not be fixed, adding that nothing like this had ever happened in the history of the festival.

This followed another cancelled performance at the festival by one of the headline acts - British singer Ellie Goulding did not perform on Thursday as scheduled. Festival spokesman Jiří Sedlák said that this was on the recommendation of her doctors due to health reasons. Czech band Chinaski performed in her place.