Festival Insights NEWS: bluedot Takes Fallow Year After Extreme Weather

Bluedot – the award-winning festival that fuses music, science and cosmic culture at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory – has announced it will take a fallow year in 2024, as a result of the impact of weather at this year’s event.

This summer’s bluedot featured headline performances from Grace Jones, Pavement and Roisin Murphy, with keynote speakers including celebrated science broadcasters Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chris Lintott and environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee, plus an array of original artistic commissions and cultural events. However record-breaking amounts of rainfall before and during the festival had a severe impact on the UNESCO World Heritage Site. In order for the land to fully recover, bluedot will be taking a fallow year in 2024, returning to Jodrell Bank in 2025.

The festival said –

“When we set out on the…