{"id":677404,"date":"2026-07-06T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677404\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:58:11","slug":"looes-kernowfornia-festival-cancelled-after-organiser-goes-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677404\/","title":{"rendered":"Looe’s Kernowfornia festival cancelled after organiser goes bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

A music festival in Cornwall to headlined by singer James Morrison has been cancelled after the company behind it ran into financial problems.<\/p>\n

The Kernowfornia Festival was due to take place on East Looe Beach in September, but Gracenote Promotion has announced it is shutting down. Ticket-holders will not be offered refunds.<\/p>\n

Organisers said on social media, external<\/a> “recent financial developments” had left it with “no responsible alternative” but to begin the process of liquidation.<\/p>\n

Gracenote Promotion organiser and director Jonathan Robert Stafford said he was “truly, deeply sorry”, and said he had suffered “devastating personal financial consequences” as a result of the decision.<\/p>\n

The Kernowfornia Festival was first staged in 2025 as a three-day event to celebrate Cornwall, and bringing people together through “music, community and shared experiences”.<\/p>\n

It was formed as a successor to the Looe music festival Making Waves, started in 2011, which was cancelled in 2018 when it was overwhelmed by debts.<\/p>\n

This year’s festival was expected to feature headliners such as James Morrison, Kula Shaker, and Reef.<\/p>\n

Last year’s headliners included Marillion and Embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A music festival in Cornwall to headlined by singer James Morrison has been cancelled after the company behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}