![]() A public health order to shut down the music festival was signed by the Minister for Health Brad Hazzard. The 2021 event, scheduled for 1–5 April, was cancelled one day before it was to commence after a COVID-19 case was detected in Byron Bay. 2020 īluesfest 2020 was the first of 31 Bluesfests to be cancelled, due to event restrictions imposed when the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia occurred. In 2010 Bluesfest moved to its permanent home at the 120-hectare Tyagarah Tea Tree farm. Noble bought out the consortium in 2008 and now owns the festival alone. In December 2004, Keven Oxford, a director and founder of the event, left the festival and sold his 50% share of the company to a consortium comprising Michael Chugg (managing director of Sydney-based Michael Chugg Entertainment), Daryl Herbert (CEO of Melbourne-based Definitive Events) and Glenn Wheatley (CEO of Melbourne-based Talentworks), who ran the festival with co-founder Peter Noble. Patrons range from locals to international visitors from a wide age range, including celebrities such as Matt Damon, Jason Momoa and Chris Hemsworth. From an original crowd of 6,000, it now attracts annual audiences of over 101,000 across the five days. ![]() It now runs for five days, from Thursday to Monday. It has been held at several locations in and around Byron Bay and is currently held at Tyagarah, 11 kilometres drive north of Byron Bay town. It was founded by Dan Doeppel and Kevin Oxford in 1990 and is now run by Peter Noble who joined Oxford for the 1994 event. The festival began in 1990 at the Arts Factory in Byron Bay as a four-day blues music event over the Easter weekend. ![]() The event was then rescheduled for October 2021, but was cancelled by the organisers in mid-August. 2021 was cancelled one day before it was due to commence after a COVID-19 case was detected in Byron Bay. ![]() Originally running for four days, it now runs for five days, from Thursday to Monday.īluesfest 20, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It has been held at several locations in and around Byron Bay and is currently held at Tyagarah, 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Byron Bay town. The festival was founded by Dan Doeppel and Kevin Oxford in 1990 and is run by Peter Noble who joined Oxford for the 1994 event. The festival features a large selection of blues and roots performers from Australia and around the world and is one of the world's leading contemporary music festivals. The Byron Bay Bluesfest, formerly the East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, is an annual Australian music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay, New South Wales, area since 1990. ![]()
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