DISAPPOINTING ticket sales have prompted Tribeca Arts to call off their Night & Day At Kirkstall Abbey music event this weekend.

Ben Pugh, producer of the new York production company, has issued a statement after pulling the plug on a Leeds line-up featuring the likes of The Waterboys, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, below, and Craig Charles at a cost of £50 for a weekend ticket.

“Tribeca Events are sad to announce that due to significantly slower than expected advance ticket sales, we are going to have to cancel the forthcoming event Night & Day at Kirkstall Abbey. The event has received overwhelming support from our partners and the artists and contractors, for which we are truly grateful, but the risks to everyone involved were becoming unreasonable in the current climate,” states Ben.

“We are sorry for any disappointment caused and tickets will be refunded at point of sale.”

Night & Day would have combined two programmes of music with a food village created by festival partners Leeds City College.

Tribeca Arts’s programme of “great events in great places” was launched last month with a solo show by The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon at York Minster, attended by 550 people.

Ben is weighing up what lies ahead for the production company, a team of freelancers whose model of working involves “no central office and keeping overheads down and highly skilled people interested”. This year’s revised programme is likely still to include autumn concerts at York Minster.