Bluesfest announces it will end for good after 2025 event
ABCBluesfest, one of Australia's longest running and prestigious music festivals, will end forever after its 2025 event. The festival has taken place almost every Easter since 1990, where it began as the East Coast Annual Blues Festival, headlined by American acts Charlie Musselwhite and Canned Heat at the Byron Bay Arts Factory. Over the next 34 years, the event grew massively, moving onto big outdoor spaces like Belongil Fields, Red Devil Park and its final home, the Byron Events Farm in Tyagarah, where over 100,000 people can visit the festival over the Easter weekend. "Bluesfest has been a labour of love, a celebration of music, community, and the resilient spirit of our fans," Festival director Peter Noble said in a statement. " The 2023 event went ahead under controversial circumstances, as artists like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Sampa The Great withdrew from the festival, and organisers removed controversial Sydneysiders Sticky Fingers from the bill.
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