The inaugural Grassroots music festival, which was to be held on the Puhinui Peninsula over Easter weekend, has been cancelled after the Christchurch earthquake led to a collapse in ticket sales.
The two-day, 15,000 person capacity event had been on track to achieve sales of around 12,000 tickets. However after the February 6 quake, sales dropped from around 80 tickets per day to less than ten, making the event commercially unviable.
The festival had secured several high profile performers, including BB King, Ben Harper and Imogen Heap.
Grassroots Cancelled
