It seems interest in the supposed-to-be-debuting North Sea Jazz Hong Kong Festival has been as frigid as…well, the North Sea.
Organisers announced this morning that the three-day event has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales and a massive lack of artists singing up. Boo!
Jazz-inclined Hongkongers were looking forward to clicking their fingers and tapping their toes (or whatever it is those guys do) to the likes of local star Eugene Pao, as well as international greats Sergio Mendes, Al Jarreau, Joss Stone and Jamie Cullum between Nov. 14 and 16.
But the event, which has been successfully hosting counterparts in Rotterdam and Curaçao since its inception in 1976, just didn’t manage to crack into Hong Kong’s highly concentrated music festival scene (sarcasm – there’s Clockenflap and…?).
Despite the festival director Jan Willem Luyken promising earlier this year that the event would “connect the two greatest ports in the world: Rotterdam and Hong Kong”, organisers are now hoping they can get their shit together by 2015 instead.
Flakey jazz types!
Ticket buyers will be fully refunded and contacted as soon as possible.
