The canceled Sierra Nevada World Music Festival announced it will not refund patrons after weeks of silence and uncertainty among ticket buyers as how they could recoup lost funds.

In a lineup of more than 30 bands and artists, the festival would have brought Grammy-winning acts Koffee and Steel Pulse and reggae greats Beres Hammond, Third World and Barrington Levy to the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville. Yet its cancellation has left many patrons both eager for reimbursement and dismayed by the loss of a notable reggae event.

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.