Canceled! InCuya Music Festival Shutting Down After 1 Year

CLEVELAND — After just one year, the InCuya music festival appears to be canceled. The music extravaganza had its inaugural event this August, but is "hitting pause" on any future events.

"The festival backers have hit pause on planning 2019, as you may have read in Cleveland media. We hope to have updates on InCuya's longer term future for you soon," the festival said on its Facebook.

The festival isn't completely dead and buried. The door remains open — a crack — for future festivals, but InCuya will definitely not return in 2019. The organizers said the event could be retooled, possibly, for a future return.

“While the inaugural event showed a lot of potential, our team felt that the timing to proceed with the event in 2019 would be challenging. Building on what we learned, we’re open to considering potential options for the future,” Cleveland Concert Company Board Chair Sunny Nixon told Fox News.

In the meanwhile, the organization urged music fans in Northeast Ohio to continue to support venerable Cleveland institutions like the Rock Hall.

InCuya ran for two days in late August and featured bands like The Avett Brothers, Cake, SZA, and New Order, among many others. Attendance seemed to fluctuate wildly, with some reports suggesting lower-than-expected attendance for some acts.

Still, if InCuya is a one-and-done experience, you can always relive it through the photos and videos that were captured or shared with Patch.

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Photos from Rick Uldricks, Patch