In the past, we’ve written a lot about two start-up music festivals, the Six Points Music Festival and DAM! Fest, which were both organized locally, held in venues around town and highlighted both local musicians as well as acts from elsewhere. We realized that too many press-release-free months had gone by with no mention of anything new, so we checked in with the organizers to see what was afoot. Unfortunately for local music fans, there isn’t much good news.

Heather Huff, organizer of the Six Points Music Festival, which is focused mostly on new local bands but expanded its purview a bit last year to include groups from outside the D.C. area, was uncertain. “It’s largely still up in the air,” she said. “It definitely won’t be at the same time, but could potentially be held later in the year. Or, we may skip this year and hold one next year. Although, there’s also a possibility that it is done for good.” She attributed the uncertainty to some of the organizers moving on from the fest or D.C. altogether, and a general lack of time. “We somehow managed to pull it off last year with only two people working on it, but a lot of things we had planned suffered because we were stretched too thin.”