It’s been a rough week for music events in Australia, only yesterday we reported that a New Years Eve festival had been blocked due to a six residential noise complaints, and sadly today we’ve seen a crowd-funded Summer festival cancelled.
Marmalade Skies, an EDM-based event held in Goulburn excitedly announced its inaugural lineup mere days ago, however it has now been force to cancel by the Goulburn Mulwareee Council after high concern for bush fire risk in the area over the warmer months, as inthemix reports.
The festival was set to run for two nights on December 12 and 13, the site situated 40-minutes drive from Canberra, boasting of a healthy list of talented Aussie artists including Acaddamy, Airling, Fishing, Flamingo, Godwolf, ISLND, JOY, Kilter, KLP, Softwar and more.
This is particularly gutting for the team behind the festival, having built Marmalade Skies from a successful crowd-funding campaign earlier this year.
Although devastated by this news, organisers have remained optimistic about the event going ahead in the future, writing the following on their official Facebook, “We are currently working closely with both the Council and our artists to select a new date that will accommodate as many people as possible.”
For any ticketholders, they have also issued the following statement, “To those who have bought tickets, we offer the biggest thank you. From those who believed right at the start through the Pozible campaign to those who have been buying tickets this week, without you, we would have nothing.”
“We ask for you to give us just a little patience. We are working as fast as possible to find a new date on the other side of summer that allows to keep as many of our incredibly talented artists as possible. While we cannot promise to have the exact same lineup we are confident that we can find a new date that works with the majority of acts.”
You can read the full press release from Marmalade Skies below:
