Slobodna Dalmacija, the most popular Dalmatian daily newspaper, announced a local news bombshell earlier today, stating that they had received unofficial confirmation that Split’s Ultra Europe Music Festival, scheduled to take place at Park Mladeži on July 9, 10 and 11, is going to be cancelled in the coming days.
After several other major music festivals in Croatia, most notably Zagreb’s rock-oriented INmusic, have already cancelled their 2021 events, we have alluded that a similar announcement was soon going to have come from the management of Ultra Europe as well, which has, until now, not been the case.
Since cancelling their 2020 event in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic back in May last year, the organizers of Ultra Europe had remained notoriously silent on the fate and the shape of the expected 2021 event and have kept their public relation releases at a bare minimum, appearing primarily in the Croatian daily news with sporadic and ambiguous press releases. Ultra Europe’s social media accounts, which have stopped posting regularly back in August 2020, have provoked angry responses from many disappointed party-goers who had not appreciated the lack of transparency regarding the future of the festival as well as its apparently dubious refund policies.
The management of Ultra Europe are yet to comment on the news report, but an official cancellation seems inevitable considering that the tickets for the 2021 edition have not yet been made available for sale.