Next year's Blue Mountains Music Festival has been postponed until March 2022.
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Organisers announced the "difficult decision" last week after being forced to cancel this year's festival on the day it was due to start, making it one of the first major casualties at the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March.
"Continuing restrictions on large gatherings and multi-day festivals, as well as the unpredictable nature of events, meant we had to make this decision," festival organisers said in a letter to supporters last week.
"We realised that under current restrictions the festival we would be able to hold in March 2021 would be a much smaller and pared back affair.... The uncontrollable risks seemed too vast and not worth the health of our community, patrons, volunteers and artists.
"We also had to consider the financial viability of holding a pared back festival and the possibility of another last minute postponement making a financial bounce back impossible. And for all these reasons we have decided to wait until 2022."
The annual music festival is held in a precinct near Katoomba Public School, including Katoomba RSL Club and The Clarendon Guesthouse. Held over three days, it was due to mark its 25th anniversary this year with headline artists Kasey Chambers and John Butler.
