Headliners like Jack White<\/a>, Jamiroquai<\/a>, Crowded House and Beck have mixed it up with Ocean Alley, Courtney Barnett, and Tash Sultana in recent years.<\/p>\n Storms disrupt Adelaide’s Harvest Rock and OzAsia festivals<\/a><\/p>\n A burst of stormy weather causes interruptions at Adelaide’s Harvest Rock music event and the OzAsia Festival, amid more downpours in other parts of the state.<\/p>\n The two-day festival has been a key strategy to boost tourism in the region, and despite thunderstorms derailing the first day of last year’s event<\/a>, Harvest Rock 2025 was considered a major success.<\/p>\n South Australian Tourism Commission stated last year that more than 30 per cent of ticket holders came to SA from out of state to see a bill featuring The Strokes, Jelly Roll, Royel Otis and The War On Drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2026 hiatus marks the second time Harvest Rock has taken a year off.<\/p>\n A huge crowd watches Beck perform at Harvest Rock 2023. (Supplied: Harvest Festival\/Pat Stevenson)<\/p>\n Promoter Secret Sounds pulled the plug on the 2024 edition, just months after cancelling flagship winter festival Splendour In the Grass<\/a>, which has yet to make a comeback.<\/p>\n Another Secret Sounds live music staple, New Year’s Eve event Falls Festival, has also been absent since announcing it would “take some time off” following the 2022\/2023 editions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today’s statement gave no reason for the postponement, simply stating that “good things take time” before promising that future plans are in place.<\/p>\n Festival-goers are right to be nervous; studies in the industry sector have revealed just over half of Australian music festivals are profitable<\/a>.<\/p>\n A combination of skyrocketing operational costs and dwindling younger audiences has led to the collapse of major events, including Groovin the Moo<\/a>, Bluesfest<\/a> and Big Red Bash<\/a>, but also a rise in appetite for smaller, boutique events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide music festival Harvest Rock will not go ahead in 2026, with organisers announcing it will be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,23322,134,34044,368165,368168,368164,53540,368166,368167,67678,34046],"class_list":["post-776251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-djfrontpage","tag-entertainment","tag-harvest-rock","tag-harvest-rock-2026","tag-harvest-rock-adelaide","tag-harvest-rock-cancelled","tag-harvest-rock-festival","tag-harvest-rock-lineup","tag-harvest-rock-south-australia","tag-music-festival","tag-secret-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Crowds](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d575f154dded9e68ec01620e8004858d.jpeg\")
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