{"id":694366,"date":"2026-07-16T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:08","slug":"music-fans-disappointed-over-cancelled-sandringham-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694366\/","title":{"rendered":"Music fans disappointed over cancelled Sandringham concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music fans from around the world were reeling with shock and disappointment after a series of major concerts were cancelled.<\/p>\n

Alice Dearing, 59, from Baltimore, US, was excitedly preparing to see Eric Clapton perform at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk and had even booked flights and accommodation.<\/p>\n

However, HeritageLive announced on Tuesday the event would be cancelled alongside two others due to financial reasons. Some concert-goers said they were still waiting to hear whether their event tickets would be refunded.<\/p>\n

Dearing said: “We can see Eric Clapton here in the United States, but it’s an arena setting… the appeal was at Sandringham at this beautiful estate.”<\/p>\n

Headliners including Lionel Richie, Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin were due to perform at the five-day event.<\/p>\n

Organisers GCE Live had also planned events<\/a> at the Englefield Estate in Berkshire this month and at Audley End House in Essex next month.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Tuesday, it said, external<\/a> it had become “almost impossible” to compete in an “increasingly saturated festival market” and had struggled with rising costs. <\/p>\n

Dearing last saw Clapton perform at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1992, as a newlywed with her husband John. <\/p>\n

She said: “We talk about it always and then when this came up at Sandringham it was perfect… it just had our names written all over it.” <\/p>\n

Dearing said she had been told by See Tickets – the ticket sellers she bought through- that she would get her money back for the concert; however, her flights were non-refundable.<\/p>\n

“There were so many logistics to work out; there was a lot of time and money spent on that,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Now we need to figure out what we are going to do in those few days we would be in Norfolk and the Sandringham area… I still have my B&B reservation, but the main event has gone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music fans from around the world were reeling with shock and disappointment after a series of major concerts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694366","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=694366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}