Just 9 days before the festival begins, UpNorth Music & Arts Festival has finally made the announcement that this year's music festival will not be happening.
Even though fans have been speculating the demise of this festival for quite some time now, UpNorth Festival was adamant about the festival proceeding on. With a lineup featuring headliners such as Louis The Child, Rezz, and G Jones, UpNorth has gone bottom up after much hope.
The official announcement comes from UpNorth's Facebook page stating “It is with a heavy heart that we inform you UpNorth Festival will not be happening this year.”
According to the music festival “Eight months ago Twisted Trails granted us permission to have the event, so we went onsale with tickets. As things developed and we learned that the owners were no longer willing to work with us, we tried purchasing the land. We were unable to make this happen, so we went to our backup property. After gaining approvals from a new county, new landowner, EMS, fire departments, rearranging production, routing artists, creating new site and emergency plans, sourced additional security, the local law enforcement could not source enough personnel to sign off on the event. We tried contacting state police and other officers in the area. However we were unable to allocate the personnel needed to hold the event.”
UpNorth has stated that refunds will be given at the ticket buyer's point of purchase.
