The Golden Plains Music Festival for 2022 has been cancelled after the organisers issued a statement saying a 'seriously sizeable' combination of factors made the much-loved event once again untenable.
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The festival was cancelled in 2021, as was the related Meredith Music Festival.
"We tried incredibly hard to make it happen," the Golden Plains organisers said.
"Turned every stone a hundred times. Looked at it from every possible, and impossible, angle. We allowed as much time and space as we could.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."
"Hosting twelve thousand fun-lovers across three days and two nights in the great outdoors is always a massive undertaking and one we approach with rigour and enthusiasm... The circumstances we are in do not match the circumstances required for this Golden Plains to happen. It's nobody's fault. It's no one thing."
Golden Plains was last held in 2020. Both Golden Plains and Meredith music festivals will receive federal government funding through its RISE entertainment funding program, with a commitment of $651,000 to "reactivate" both festivals in 2021-22.
The organisers say the festivals will return in the future.
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