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Huge blow for Australia's live music scene as another music festival is CANCELLED: 'We're devastated'
Another Australian music festival has unfortunately been cancelled, with Western Australia's You & Me festival falling victim to poor ticket sales.
Like many Australian festivals, Bluesfest has faced numerous challenges, including rising costs, changes in ticket-buying behaviour, and disruptions from the COVID pandemic and extreme weather conditions. Following the announcement of the end of Bluesfest, Tamara Smith, the Member for Ballina — which includes the Byron Shire where the festival takes place — started a petition urging the State Government to provide a rescue package to save this long-running event. 'Yes Falls, Groovin, and now Splendour (not to mention countless smaller ones) go under, but Pink just did 20 stadium shows, Taylor Swift did 600,000+ tix, Fred again 100,000+ in a day.. it's both, but it's more cultural than cost of living.'
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