Booze fest boss barrels back

LIKE the cork in a bottle of fine champagne, the AWOL organizer of a wine and music festival has suddenly popped up. But only to, er, whine.

Earlier this month, we reported that Sean Evans, founder and CEO of popular traveling event Blended Festival, had “gone missing” after allegedly “racking up over $6 million in unpaid debt from the festival.”

The fest’s first concerts took place Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 in Nashville, Tenn., with headlining acts that included Lil Jon and the Chainsmokers. Rapper T.I., G-Eazy, Loud Luxury and others were set to hit the stage for various other dates, including upcoming shows in Tampa, Fla., this month.

Until, that is, Evans allegedly skipped town after the Nashville dates “leaving hundreds of employees, vendors, talent and investors holding their hands out to get paid.”

Now we hear that Evans has finally bubbled up to the surface. On Nov. 14, Evans re-emerged in the inboxes of his former employees and contractors insisting, via email, “I have in no way acted fraudulently nor have I benefited in any way from the disaster, quite the opposite.”

He also claimed the company’s social media accounts — which were run by a third party — “[had] been absent as of October 1st” and had been hijacked.

In the Nov. 14 email obtained by Page Six, Evans claimed the “social media accounts were, and still are, illegally hijacked . . . seemingly as an attempt to frame me as a fraud in the media.”

He then blamed “one, or perhaps even several individuals [who have] decided to use their desperation to justify committing potentially criminal acts against the company.”

Our emails to Evans and his company bounced back, calls to a cellphone went straight to voicemail and he appears to have deleted most of his online presence, including his LinkedIn page. He also did not respond to our text messages.