Bluesfest Has Been Cancelled Due to COVID-19 for the Second Year in a Row – Concrete Playground

Much about this last week of March has felt like history repeating itself — initially for Brisbanites, and now for anyone with an Easter date with Bluesfest. For the second year in a row, the Byron Bay festival won’t be going ahead, with NSW Health announcing that a public health order has been signed that cancels the 2021 event.

The long-running festival was set to return to Byron Events Farm (formerly Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm) just outside Byron Bay from Thursday, April 1 — for the Easter long weekend, headlined by Jimmy Barnes, Tash Sultana, Ocean Alley, Ziggy Alberts and The Teskey Brothers. But, as happened last year, COVID-19 has gotten in the way.

NSW Health has advised that the move has been made “to minimise the risk of the…