Fife arts festival cancelled

The inaugural festival was staged last July in the Fife coastal village and hailed as a major success, attracting more than 2500 visitors and 36 artists.

Organisers had held off making a final decision on this year’s festival following the lockdown in March but, after consulting the community, have now decided to cancel the week-long festival.

Largo Arts Week chair Dougi McMillan said: “As lockdown proceeded, we realised that there were many challenges to the event going ahead this summer during the Covid 19 situation. The most important point around the event is the safety of the community and their continued engagement and support for the arts week.

“We decided to conduct our own survey of artists and the community and, after receiving more than 160 responses, there was a clear view that reluctantly we should cancel this year’s event. I’d like to thank everyone for taking time to give us their views and we will now start planning to reinstate Largo Arts Week in the summer of 2021. Of course, we are all disappointed, but the safety of the community must come first and I am sure everyone will look forward to next year’s event.”

The inaugural Largo Arts Week featured a stellar line-up of acts, with highlights including sell-out performances from comedian Phil Jupitus and world-renowned sculptor David Mach.