Live music hit by Australian bushfires

“Hazardous” air quality causes cancellation of A Day On the Green in Victoria, Australia, amid announcements of TEG and Tones and I bushfire benefit shows

News By | 7 January 2020

The air quality is "hazardous" on site at A Day On the Green © A Day On the Green/Facebook

A Day On the Green festival in Victoria is the latest live music event to fall foul of the bushfires raging through Australia.

Australian rock bands Cold Chisel, Birds of Tokyo and Magic Dirt were scheduled to perform today (7 January) at A Day On the Green at the All Saints Estate in Rutherglen, in the south east of Australia.

Michael Newton, co-director of A Day On the Green organiser Roundhouse Entertainment, says the promoter is “extremely disappointed” to cancel the…

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