Vale Rhoda Roberts and Bluesfest?🌏🎸

Rhoda Ann Roberts AO
(8 July 1959 – 21 March 2026)

Bluesfest Byron Bay cancelled

Sad news all round this Easter with the passing of Rhoda Roberts and the end of Bluesfest.

Aunty Rhoda Roberts AO

Byron Bay Bluesfest

"The 2026 festival, which was scheduled to run from 2–5 April, was cancelled on 13 March due to poor ticket sales."

Organisers announced today [March 13th]
they were "deeply saddened" to
cancel the famous festival

I wrote a post mentioning Rhoda back in 2017 when I heard her tell her story on a 'Conversations' podcast episode -

Rhoda Roberts: holding onto family

Down-under from Up-there and Then Out of Australia?

Bluesfest 2020: The Festival That Never Took Place?