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Updated · Utah Public Radio · Aug 4

Yours Always Festival Cancels October Debut, Refunding Tickets for 2 Dozen-Artist Salt Lake City Event

Updated

Updated · Utah Public Radio · Aug 4

Yours Always Festival Cancels October Debut, Refunding Tickets for 2 Dozen-Artist Salt Lake City Event

Q: Why did a highly anticipated Salt Lake City music festival abruptly cancel and completely erase its digital footprint overnight?

No verified reason has been made public. Organizers of the Yours Always festival told ticket holders only that it was canceled because of “unforeseen circumstances,” issued refunds, and then took down the festival’s website and social media accounts. What is clear is that the cancellation was abrupt and unusually opaque. Fans reported refund emails arriving before any broad public announcement. Attempts to contact the festival also appeared to fail, with at least one reported support email bouncing back as invalid. Archived coverage shows the two-day event had been announced in June and was scheduled for Oct. 2-3 at Utah State Fairpark, with Benson Boone, Sombr, Stephen Sanchez, Labrinth and others on the lineup. Because organizers have offered no fuller explanation, the overnight disappearance of the festival’s digital presence has fueled speculation online that the event may have run into financial, operational or ticket-sales problems. Some industry and fan coverage noted that new festivals can be vulnerable to weak sales and rising production costs, but there is no confirmed evidence tying those factors to Yours Always. So the direct answer is that the festival was officially canceled for unspecified “unforeseen circumstances,” and the complete erasure of its online footprint remains unexplained. Until organizers, the venue or artist representatives speak on the record, anything beyond that is speculation.

3 articles · Updated · Utah Public Radio · Aug 4

Refund emails sent to ticket holders said Salt Lake City's new Yours Always festival was canceled because of “unforeseen circumstances,” ending plans for an early October debut.
Organizers gave no further explanation, and the event’s website and social media accounts have gone offline.
Late-June ticket sales had been underway for the festival, which had booked about two dozen artists including Benson Boone and Sombr.
The abrupt cancellation leaves no public reason for why the new Utah event was called off just weeks after launch.