Port Fairy cancels 2021 Folk Festival amid COVID-19 concerns

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Organisers of the Port Fairy Folk Festival have cancelled the 2021 event, citing coronavirus concerns.

The 2021 Port Fairy Folk Festival has been cancelled, seven months out from its 45th event

Committee president John Young said the organisers had been working on organising the 45th Folkie since the last one in March. "We started looking at options for smaller festivals … [but] we thought that was going to be very, very difficult to handle," Mr Young said.

 

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All music festivals should be cancelled. How can people seriously think they can have these until a vaccine is created.

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