The directors and management of the SPAR Kirkwood Wildsfees have decided not to stage the 2021 event in June due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
This is the second year the festival is cancelled.
Chairperson of the festival Board Paul Marais says they are heeding the call of President Cyril Ramaphosa to avoid what has been described as the three Cs, closed spaces, crowded places and close contact with others.
“Even though the Kirkwood Wildsfees is largely an open-air festival, we will not risk the health and lives of the 45 000 festival-goers, and those of the people living and working in the Sundays River Valley,” he says.
Marais is confident that the festival will be held from June 24 to June 26 2022.
In 2020 the artists who had been booked for the festival were given the option of retaining their deposits if they agreed to appear in 2021.
This agreement is being rolled over to 2022 with those wanting to continue with the agreement.
Marais says November 30 has been given as a cut-off date for deciding on the 2022 festival to retain the integrity of the organisers, businesses and the people of the Sundays River Valley.
