Another artist is dropping out of Woodstock 50 as the troubled festival moves out of New York state.

The Associated Press reports Jay-Z is pulling out of the 2019 Woodstock festival, scheduled three weeks from today on Aug. 16-18 in Maryland. The superstar rapper was set to close the three-day festival when it was first booked for Watkins Glen, N.Y., but a source tells the AP that Jay-Z is now out.

The news comes hours after John Fogerty also canceled his Woodstock 50 appearance.

"John Fogerty knows where he will be for the anniversary weekend of Woodstock,” a rep for Fogerty told Variety on Thursday. “At only one site… at the original one – the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.”

Fogerty, who performed at the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 with Creedence Clearwater Revival, was scheduled to appear at both “Woodstock 50” and a series of anniversary weekend concerts at Bethel Woods, located near the original site. He’ll perform at Bethel Woods on Sunday, Aug. 18, with Grace Potter and Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Multiple reports say Woodstock 50 is now aiming to take place at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, Maryland. The outdoor amphitheater can hold up to 32,000 people, less than half of what organizers hoped to draw at the first two proposed sites in Watkins Glen and Vernon, but a proposed livestream could still reach larger numbers.

The new site has not been officially announced and tickets still have yet to go on sale.

It’s unclear how many Woodstock 50 artists will commit to the new venue. All Woodstock 50 performers were paid in advance but they may not be contractually obligated to perform at a new site. The lineup tentatively includes a mix of original Woodstock performers like Santana, Canned Heat, and members of the Grateful Dead (in Dead & Company with John Mayer), along with more modern artists like Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, The Killers, Chance the Rapper, Janelle Monae, Halsey, and Imagine Dragons.

Another Woodstock 50 performer, The Black Keys, dropped out in April due to a “scheduling conflict.” Weeks later, the festival lost its investor and producer, and eventually lost its original site at Watkins Glen International and a second site at Vernon Downs.

The festival, scheduled three weeks away on Aug. 16-18, is now dubbed “Woodstock 50 Washington” because the new site is located 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C. -- more than 250 miles away from the original Woodstock site. Bloomberg reports the smaller concert is now being pitched as a fundraiser for nonprofits devoted to voter turnout and climate change.

An estimated 400,000 people attended the first Woodstock festival, held Aug. 15-18, 1969, at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm near White Lake in the Catskill Mountains. Performers included Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Santana, Joe Cocker, the Grateful Dead and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

The iconic concert was revisited in 1994 with a modern lineup of artists like Nine Inch Nails, Sheryl Crow, Metallica, Cypress Hill and Red Hot Chili Peppers in Saugerties, but Woodstock ’99 -- held at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y. -- ended the fun with riots, fires and allegations of sexual assault.

The original Woodstock site is planning its own anniversary celebration on the same weekend as Woodstock 50. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will host Arlo Guthrie and a screening of the “Woodstock” documentary on the field Thursday, Aug. 15; Ringo Starr, The Edgar Winter Band and Blood, Sweat & Tears on the pavilion stage Friday, Aug. 16; Santana with the Doobie Brothers on Saturday, Aug. 17; and John Fogerty with Grace Potter and Tedeschi Trucks Band on Sunday, Aug. 18. Guthrie, Winter, Santana, Fogerty and Blood, Sweat & Tears all performed at the original Woodstock festival.