Golden Plains Music Festival cancels March event

Organisers and concertgoers are crushed after a popular local music festival was cancelled for the second consecutive year.

A beloved music festival will not go ahead in the new year.

Organisers announced Golden Plains Music Festival, scheduled for March, had been cancelled due to scheduling difficulties.

“We tried incredibly hard to make it happen,” a statement from organisers read.

“In the end, there wasn’t any one single thing that knocked it out. More a seriously sizeable series of things which proved – at this particular moment in time, for our particular circumstances – insurmountable for Golden Plains to take flight.”

It comes almost a year after the 2021 event was cancelled due to ongoing coronavirus uncertainties.

The three-day-festival traditionally attracts around 12,000 concertgoers to the region over the March Labour Day weekend.

Organisers will instead turn their attention to Meredith Music Festival, due to come to life at the end of December next year.

“The energy that came our way to turn Golden Plains on has tripled our resolve for a very special 30th Meredith next December, and a very golden GP XV after that,” the statement read.

“I want to dearly thank everyone, from far and wide, that tried to help clear our path. The feeling is almost overwhelming and undeniably inspiring, and I’m immensely grateful. I also want to thank everybody who has sent messages throughout this long time apart.”

Originally published as Golden Plains Music Festival cancels March event