TURNERS FALLS — Saturday’s inaugural Falls Festival is being postponed until next autumn due to anticipated inclement weather, Town Administrator and Festival Committee member Steve Ellis announced Wednesday evening.

The Falls Festival, which would have been a downtown confluence of music and special events offered by local businesses, was planned by a new group of organizers looking to pay homage to the traditional Great Falls Festival that had been a village staple for 12 years until its end in 2022. Festival Committee member Klon Koehler said organizers will mobilize their “very educational” experience planning this year’s event to prepare for its successful debut on an undetermined date next fall.

“We’re hopeful we’ll be able to muster the time, the energy, the sponsorship support and volunteer recruitment to produce the event successfully next year,” Koehler said, adding that the Festival Committee is “extremely grateful to the town of Montague for [its] support.”

“The Festival Committee has worked diligently and learned a tremendous amount over the last several months,” Ellis wrote in his announcement. “We’re extremely grateful to the local sponsors, businesses, musicians, artists, vendors and public safety officials who have worked with us along the way and we’re very much looking forward to next year’s event.”

Koehler said the committee has not yet had an “after-action meeting” following the decision to postpone the event, but he expressed “there are things [organizers] would like to do differently” for next year’s festival. He noted he is unsure whether this might entail a change in programming.

Associated indoor activities presented by the Shea Theater Arts Center, The Rendezvous, Pioneer Valley Brewery, Unnamable Books and Music Connection will continue as scheduled, according to Ellis. He encouraged interested residents to call the businesses or check their respective websites for details.

Reach Julian Mendoza at 413-930-4231 or jmendoza@recorder.com.