Salt Lake City’s would-be fall pop festival has disappeared before it ever got a chance to make noise. Yours Always Music Festival, booked to bring Benson Boone, Sombr and a high-profile lineup to the Utah State Fairpark in October, was canceled Friday, leaving ticket buyers with little more than refund notices and a vanished online presence.
According to KSL.com, the only reason given was “unforeseen circumstances,” and the festival had not posted a formal public cancellation notice as of Monday. Its website, social accounts and support emails disappeared over the weekend, while Boone’s festival listing led to a dead page and Sombr removed his scheduled Oct. 3 appearance from his tour calendar.
The event had been scheduled for Oct. 2-3 and was announced in June as a two-day mix of pop, indie and alternative acts. The lineup included Stephen Sanchez, Labrinth and Joshua Bassett alongside Boone and Sombr, according to Power 94.9 & 101.9, which had promoted the show at the Fairpark.
That is a particularly abrupt reversal for a festival that had already moved into the sales-and-travel phase. Ticket holders were told they would receive refunds, but the disappearance of the organizer’s public channels leaves basic questions unanswered, including what specifically triggered the cancellation.
The Fairpark Calendar Has Not Caught Up
As of Monday, the Utah State Fairpark’s public events calendar still listed Yours Always for Oct. 2-4, a stale booking that now sits alongside the venue’s other fall events. That mismatch does not explain the cancellation, but it underscores how quickly the festival went from a marketed event to an online ghost.
Salt Lake’s New Festival Problem Is Becoming Familiar
Yours Always is not the first new Salt Lake City festival to collapse before its debut. Love Letters Music Festival was canceled in August 2024, a little more than a month before its planned launch, with organizers citing unresolved issues and promising automatic refunds, as reported by KSL.com.
That earlier case suggests the hard part is not announcing a lineup; it is getting a new festival all the way to opening day. For now, Yours Always has left behind a familiar fall date, a still-outdated venue listing, and no clear public explanation for why the music stopped before it started.
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