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After Cancellation, DelFest Updates Plans for Festival in 2022

September 13th, 2021 by WCBC Radio

On the morning after DelFest organizers announced that this year’s festival has been canceled- they joined WCBC’s “Dave Norman Show” to discuss the decision and where the event goes from here. On Thursday afternoon,  the organizations facebook page posted a letter to fans from the family explaining that the decision was due to a local labor shortage caused by a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant that has left the festival’s event services company unable to field a team for DelFest.  Rob McCoury said that every effort was made to put on this year’s festival, but in the end there were simply too many hurdles to overcome…

Planning is already underway for the festival to return to the Allegany County Fairgrounds- Memorial Day weekend in 2022