Three summer music festivals on historical country estates have been cancelled at the eleventh hour, with the organiser blaming high costs and low ticket sales.<\/p>\n
The Heritage Live festivals promised stellar line-ups, including Christina Aguilera, Eric Clapton and Lionel Richie at the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk in August.<\/p>\n
Scissor Sisters were on the bill at Audley End Estate in Essex, also in August, and Richard Ashcroft was among the headliners at the Englefield Estate in Berkshire in July.<\/p>\n
The organiser, GCE Live, said a financial rescue package had fallen through, making it impossible to continue.<\/p>\n
In an online message, it said: “We’re devastated to report the heartbreaking news that we have no choice but to cancel this summer’s HeritageLive festivals.<\/p>\n
“As one of the few remaining British independent promoters, it’s become almost impossible to compete in what has become an increasingly saturated festival market.<\/p>\n
“The might of huge multi-nationals has had the adverse effect of driving up supplier, artist and staffing costs.<\/p>\n
“The cost of living crisis combined with general financial uncertainty has resulted in several shows having far lower than average ticket sales.”<\/p>\n
The firm said it was grateful for customers’ support over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n
The day festival series has previously seen performances from The Who, Sir Tom Jones and Sir Van Morrison.<\/p>\n
Organiser Giles Cooper OBE is chairman of the Royal Variety Charity and produces the annual Royal Variety Performance.<\/p>\n
GCE Live said its ticket agents should offer refunds “with a reasonable period”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three summer music festivals on historical country estates have been cancelled at the eleventh hour, with the organiser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689355","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\/689355","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=689355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}