Organisers of this year's Rhythm and Alps three-day music festival say they did not know until yesterday morning whether the event would go ahead because of Covid-19.
Festival director Alex Turnbull said organisers had been "keeping an eye on it pretty closely", and even though there had been no community transmission cases for the past few months, "we were pretty nervous".
The sold-out 10th annual music festival began yesterday afternoon in the paddocks of Robrosa Station in the Cardrona Valley, as the first of the 24,000 ticket-holders lined up from early morning to enter the site.
Turnbull said organising the festival during the pandemic had been a huge challenge.