The annual Bluesfest has been handed to liquidators, with this Easter’s music competition cancelled simply three weeks earlier than the 4-day occasion was set to occur in Byron Bay.
Greater than 100,000 folks went to the 2025 competition, which featured Crowded Home, Vance Pleasure and the Hilltop Hoods. It was meant to be its swansong after 35 years, however cofounder and competition director Peter Noble determined to carry an encore efficiency in 2026. It’s to not be
An announcement on the Bluesfest web site blamed the cancellation on rising manufacturing, logistics, insurance coverage and touring prices. Poor tickets sale have reportedly been a difficulty too.
“It isn’t potential to ship the competition to the usual audiences, artists and companions count on,” the assertion stated.
“We’re pleased with what now we have achieved – the music, our artists, the busking competitors, our employees, our group, and everybody who has been a part of the Bluesfest journey.”
An as-yet unnamed liquidator has been appointed to take care of vendor and accomplice obligations.
Bluesfest stated ticket holders, together with parking go prospects and campers, can be contacted immediately by the liquidator with additional data concerning the method for submitting claims and any potential refund.
Break up Enz, Crowded Home’s large brother, was meant to be the headline act this 12 months.
Lately, Covid performed havoc with the veteran occasion, which has featured Bob Dylan, James Brown, Grace Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Buddy Man, R.E.M., Ben Harper, Robert Plant, and Michael Franti, with the NSW authorities intervening through the pandemic to cancel the 2020 and 2021 festivals.
