Low ticket sales force cancellation of B.C. country music festival
Posted May 22, 2012 10:20 pm.
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VANCOUVER – The jig’s up for a country music festival that was once the biggest entertainment event in B.C.’s Interior and drew Grammy-winning crooners.
The Merritt Mountain Music Festival attracted crowds of nearly 150,000 campers in past years and stars like Vince Gill and Crystal Gale.
But organizers of this year’s event say in a statement they have cancelled the 2012 festival because of low-ticket sales.
They say ticket sales appeared promising last October but slowed down and haven’t responded.
Organizers say people who have bought tickets should call their credit-card providers for a refund, and they end their statement saying goodbye to all.
The cancellation is not the first for the festival, which did not take place in 2010 because of disappointing attendance the year before.
