Plug pulled on Caithness music festival
THE plug has been pulled on one of the biggest country music festivals in the UK with confirmation that the Northern Nashville Caithness Country Music Festival will not be returning in 2016.
Falling audience numbers and high costs have led organisers to cancel the award-winning festival which was due to be held in April.
They are hoping the event, which has seen country music acts from around the world travel to the county for the past 12 years, will return in 2017. But chairwoman Christine Gray said the committee could make no promises it would return after making the decision to scrap next year’s event.
With audience numbers down by 200 compared to 2014 and expenditure costs £94,000 to host last year’s event, the loss of ticket revenue was too much for the committee to bear.
Read more in this weekend’s John O’Groat Journal.
