ARISE Music Festival organizers announced the cancellation of the 2022 event, “Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control.” The festival was supposed to be held at its new home at The Cradle in Boone, Colorado over Memorial Day Weekend (May 27 – 30).
ARISE Music Festival was held between 2012 and 2019 at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a two-year hiatus, during which organizers purchased The Cradle, “an organic ranch and farm along the Arkansas River, about two hours south of Denver.” The statement from the organizers regarding the 2022 festival indicated the event would be permanently canceled.
The ARISE Music Festival 2022 lineup featured Alison Wonderland, Galactic, Beats Antique, Papadosio, The Polish Ambassador, J Boog, Manic Focus, Andy Frasco & The U.N., The Green, The Lil Smokies, Dopapod, Doom Flamingo, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and others.
Read the statement from the ARISE Music Festival organizers detailing its cancellation:
With less than two weeks until we are to ARISE together, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the cancelation of ARISE Music Festival. Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we have been forced to cancel the festival scheduled to take place this Memorial Day weekend. Countless hours, thought, energy and effort have gone into cultivating the vision for ARISE while honoring the festival community that helped create it. Ultimately Pueblo County Planning Department canceled our special event application because the Pueblo Sheriff and CDOT did not approve the festival for reasons that are not clear.
Over the past two years, ARISE Music Festival has been presented with numerous challenges: loss of the special event permit in Larimer County; producers going their separate ways; a worldwide pandemic; and a community scattered. Despite the challenges, festival owner and producer Luke Comer has remained committed to revitalizing the festival as an innovative, beautiful and intentional experience. The cancelation of ARISE is not the future that the festival had hoped to confront. After almost ten years in production, it is with a heavy heart that the festival must shut its doors permanently. Every employee, artist, vendor, partner and ticket buyer will be impacted so this decision has been excruciating to make.
We remain humbled by your love and grateful for 12 years of support, enlightenment, healing, music, art and community. Be well, stay positive and spread your light to others.
All refunds for ARISE Music Festival will be issued in as little as 30 days. Questions regarding refunds can be sent to contact.frontgatetickets.com or email [email protected].
