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The Black Deer Festival in Kent’s Elridge Park has been cancelled for 2025 but is set to return the following year.
Organisers say that the previous two editions of the Americana music event have proven difficult to stage both financially and operationally.
This has been put down to unpredictable ticket sales and rising production costs.
“Regretfully, due to the widely reported pressures on the festival industry, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone Black Deer Festival 2025,”said Black Deer Group managing director Chris Russell-Fish.
“This is not a decision we’ve made lightly. We have explored all avenues to try to make it work next summer, but right now it just isn’t feasible.
“We are immensely thankful for our audience, who come back year-on-year to discover and enjoy the brilliance that is Americana, which is why in June 2024, we launched Black Deer Live & Black Deer Radio to support our huge, growing community. Whilst our three-day annual festival has brought Americana to many, we wanted to be able to bring Black Deer to even wider audiences around the UK – all year round.”
Russell-Fish states that there is much to be excited about with 44 Black Deer live shows already scheduled while more are still to be announced.
The organisation has promised that the festival’s return in 2026 will be “bigger and better”.
Black Deer is not the only one facing difficulties as this year alone, the UK has seen the postponement, cancellation, or complete closure of more than 60 festivals.
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