As the coronavirus continues to spread, Splendour in the Grass, Australia’s premier mid-winter music festival, is taking the unprecedented step of rescheduling its event to October, a full three months after the previously confirmed dates.
Organizers of the three-day fest pushed-back the event after the federal government activated a ban on public gatherings of 500 or more people, and strict rules on foreign nationals entering the country’s borders.
Splendour’s three-month pause was made with health and safety as the “number one priority,” reads a statement from the festival’s co-founders Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco, co-CEOs of Secret Sounds. “After careful consideration and consultation with our artists, crew and stakeholders,” they
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