Bjork's show at Poland's Open'er to go ahead

Open'er has revealed that Bjork who had to pull out of her festival appearances in June and July including Primavera Sound, Optimus Primavera Sound, and Balaton Sound will still be appearing at their event.

	Bjork

A message on the festival's website says, "Dear members and Open'er fans, to the best of our knowledge, Björk's concert in Poland will take place at the term planned, on July 4 at Heineken Open'er Festival. Along with Björk's coworkers, we are incessantly working on the preparations to this performance.

"Today, we have received the information from Björk's management that the concerts cancelled so far are the only cancelled ones, and the remaining performances, including the one at Open'er, will proceed."

This will also mean that the Icelandic singer will be appearing at Roskilde. We wish Björk a quick and full recovery.

Bjork has posted the following statement on her Facebook,

"hi folks

I am sorry to announce I will not be able to play Primavera Sound (Spain), Optimus Primavera Sound (Portugal), Balaton Sound (Hungary) and Afisha Picnic (Russia) 2012 .

After 2 weeks of voice rest i went to my vocal doctor and she came to this conclusion : I need to rest for 6 more weeks . the good news is that we both feel pretty confident I can start singing fully healed in the middle of June.

In the beginning of Biophilia, we estimated that doing 3 residencies a year with couple of months between would be a rhythm my chords could take . then i got overexcited and when we threw the festivals into the mix and only leaving 2 weeks between New York shows and South America was too eager beaver ... the drop that filled the meter ...

I am very sorry and embarrassed about having to cancel things and having promised things and then not being able to keep my word, truly breaks my heart. Especially to people who have already bought tickets.

Meanwhile Biophilia has become its own feisty plant growing all different directions . and it isnt all bad . it has a lot of fun sides like for example the educational angle : Reykjavík's and Buenos Aires city school curriculums have now embraced Biophilia educational program into their schools and we are partnering with the New York public library and the Children's Museum of Manhattan to launch biophilia as learning resource for New York's children in July 2012.

But in the meantime, I will rest and reschedule and make a promise to my chords and especially those who want to listen to them that even though my mind and my intention gets overexcited and runs ahead , I will from now on allow breaks between "legs" of tours to reassemble ...

because like that I can give better

warmth, Björk."

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