Golden Plains Festival announces cancellation

IN the wake of this year’s Meredith Music Festival’s cancellation, it’s sister event, the Golden Plains Festival has also been shelved in 2021.

To be held at Meredith’s natural amphitheatre, the longstanding festival was anticipated to be going ahead in March of next year.

The news of the cancellation was recently announced in a statement from festival organisers under the moniker of Aunty Meredith.

“The space-time Continuum has wibbled, and it has webbled, but it has not wobbled open wide enough to grant safe passage for Golden Plains this Autumn,” the statement from Aunty Meredith said.

“When favourable atmospheric conditions return, the full, rolled-gold, four-dimensional GP experience will land again.

“All dancing, all singing from the same songbook, in a close encounter of the fifteenth kind, one more spin around the sun should do the trick.”

As an event that champions local musicians and brings international acts to the region, this year’s Golden Plains was one of the last festivals in the state before the pandemic hit the nation.

Hopeful for the continuation of both Meredith and Golden Plains Music Festivals, the statement closed with, “Out here on the farm, meanwhile, we replenish … preparations aplenty for Meredith Thirty.”