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Cropredy Festival Postponed Until 2022

Written by Johnson Stephen on June 28, 2021

fairport convention cropready stage Fairport Convention have announced that their annual music festival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, has been postponed for the second time.

The three-day event had been scheduled to take place on 12-14 August 2021. It will now be staged over the weekend of 11, 12, 13 August 2022 on its usual farmland site in Oxfordshire.

Festival Director Gareth Williams said ”We’re left with no other choice than to postpone our festival again. We have reached the point where we’d need to spend big money but without any certainty we could go ahead. The dilemma we are facing is simple – proceed and risk potentially going out of business or postpone for a year and live to fight another day. So far, despite over six months of lobbying, the government has failed to support any form of Covid-19 related cancellation insurance scheme for the festival industry. Like the rest of the festival industry, we’ve tried everything we can to keep going but I’m afraid we would be placing Cropredy’s future in serious jeopardy if we were to go ahead.”

Mr Williams goes on to say ”Ticket buyers who can’t attend the festival in 2022 will be entitled to a refund” he added ”But we hope people will hang on to their tickets until 2022. This will help us keep the festival going throughout the coming months, while we prepare a great weekend of music for summer 2022.”