Concerts cancelled at Bluebird K7 festival
David BarzilayConcerts due to take place as part of a festival celebrating Donald Campbell's world-record breaking hydroplane have been cancelled.
Bluebird K7 - The Festival is taking place between 11 and 17 May by Coniston Water in the Lake District, where Campbell set many of his seven water speed world records.
The event will see Bluebird take to the water during the festival, but was also set to see a number of acts perform over the last three days.
The Ruskin Museum, which is organising the event, said it had cancelled the concerts due to difficulty organising traffic management and park and ride provisions.
A spokesperson said the museum had "thought long and hard" about the decision.
"A great deal of time and effort has been spent on planning the festival and choosing and booking the acts," they said.
"But as time went on, it became clear that we would be unable to meet everyone's needs."
Ticket refunds
The week-long festival will still go ahead and Bluebird K7 and Blue Bird K3 will both run on Coniston Water each day, subject to weather conditions.
Blue Bird K3 set three world water speed records when the hydroplane powerboat was piloted by Campbell's father, Malcolm Campbell.
The Ruskin Museum said concert tickets would be automatically refunded to customers.
"By doing this, we hope we will meet the expectations of both visitors and local residents alike," it said.
Between 1955 and 1964, Campbell broke seven water speed records, four of them on Coniston Water.
On 4 January 1967, he piloted Bluebird K7 one last time but the record attempt ended in a crash, which killed Campbell and sunk the hydroplane to the bottom of the lake.
The wreckage was recovered in 2001 and restored by engineer Bill Smith and, following a row over its ownership, was later handed to the Ruskin Museum.
