By Cathy Adams

ABC North Coast

Music Industry

Thursday, June 11, 2026, 7:14 pm

Bluesfest had many fans and big stars in Byron Bay.

In short:

A report on Bluesfest's money problems has been given to the government.

The company owes $7 million to over 900 people.

What's next?

The government will look at the report and decide what to do.

Creditors may not get all their money back after Bluesfest was cancelled.

The company running Bluesfest went out of business in March.

The person in charge of Bluesfest's money has given a report to the government.

Bluesfest owes more than $7 million to over 900 people.

The company only has $300,664 to pay its debts.

Linda Sutton made things for Bluesfest.

Linda Sutton's business will not get its money back, she thinks.

Linda Sutton's business lost over $90,000 when Bluesfest was cancelled.

Linda Sutton said her business will not get its money back and had to get loans.

Linda Sutton said her business is in a bad situation.

Linda Sutton said her business will survive but it will be hard.

'Difficult decision'

Bluesfest said it was a hard decision to cancel the festival.

Bluesfest said it was too expensive to have the festival.

Bluesfest had big stars like Bob Dylan and R.E.M.

This year's festival was supposed to have Split Enz and Earth, Wind & Fire.

Peter Noble has not talked about Bluesfest's money problems.

Peter Noble, the director of Bluesfest, has not commented on the festival's demise.

Over 100,000 people went to Bluesfest last year.

The festival was also hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Thursday, June 11, 2026, 7:14 pm

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