SA: Splashy Fen Music Festival to return in 2022

The event will coincide with the Easter weekend, and will feature traditional music, arts, crafts and lifestyle festivities. The line-up of artists has not been announced yet.

Tickets are now available, limited to 3 000. All ticket holders from the cancelled 2020 festival will get first preference to purchase the tickets for next year’s event. The 2020 ticket holders will be sent a link via email, which will give them access to buy the same amount of tickets as they had in 2020 at the discounted Otter Club ticket price.

There will be a two-week period in which to purchase these discounted tickets, after which, general and normal priced ticket sales will open to the public. Additionally, those who became a #splashyhero in 2020 when they donated a portion of their 2020 ticket to the festival, will be eligible for the promised 20% discount, which will be applied to the Otter Club ticket price.

Ticket holders for the upcoming festival are guaranteed a 100% refund on their ticket should the event be cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdown regulations. No day visitors will be allowed to the 2022 festival at the moment.

“It seems like a lifetime ago when we made the announcement to cancel our 2020 edition festival,” festival director Stu Berry said. “For months we have waited patiently for the green light from authorities and for the infection rate to drop. We have also watched, longingly, as international festivals have taken the lead with a number of entry regulations that allow hundreds of thousands of fans to return to packed stadiums to enjoy live music and entertainment again”.

Festival creative director Andrew van Rensburg said: “We are sure our fans will have many questions regarding the 2022 festival. Our website should be able to address all of these queries, including what we envisage will be the COVID-19 regulations at Splashy Fen 2022. It has been a tough two years, in which we have all been taught to stay away from each other and disengage, and we hope to get everyone back sharing, laughing, and smiling together again. Now more than ever, we need it.”

For more information on the festival, visit Splashy Fen’s official website.