Boardmasters axed amid weather worries
Organisers cancel UK-based Boardmasters festival the night before fans arrive on site due to heavy rain and storm warnings
News By | 7 August 2019
Vision Nine’s Boardmasters festival (50,000-cap.) has been cancelled twelve hours before gates were due to open, as severe weather warnings hit the UK.
The organisers of the live music and surfing festival announced the “potential risk” to attendees’, performers’ and crew safety was “too severe” for the event to go ahead.
Campers were supposed to arrive at the festival site in Newquay, Cornwall today (7 August), with music beginning on Friday.
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