© BBCThe annual event normally attracts around 7,000 people from around Guernsey on the first Monday of July
Guernsey's Le Viaer Marchi has been cancelled and replaced with a smaller festival due to the "unpredictable" coronavirus pandemic, organisers said.
It is normally held on the first Monday in July, which would be just five days after the potential relaxation of border restrictions on 1 July.
The annual fundraiser for the National Trust of Guernsey attracts around 7,000 people to Sausmarez park.
A two-day event - Le Petit Viaer Marchi - will be held on 17 and 18 July.
'Remain cautious'
President of the National Trust of Guernsey, Tony Spruce, said he deeply regrets the "disappointment" the decision to hold a smaller event will bring.
He argued the "unpredictable nature" of the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the festival for the second year running as they could not guarantee an event on the scale of the normal festival would go ahead.
Mr Spruce said: "Despite the superb vaccination programme and extremely helpful advice from public health, we are mindful of the enormous effort involved by our food caterers, entertainers and stallholders and feel the need to remain cautious.
"For everyone's efforts to be cancelled at short notice is unfair, and as organisers of a very large event, we are making this call mindful of everyone involved."
The smaller festival will take place at the island's Folk and Costume Museum, with stallholders, entertainment, craft demonstrations and food stalls and "everything that everyone loves" about the larger scale event, he explained.
"It's where the original Viaer Marchi started and feels comforting in these strange times to be able to wind the clock back to something of old."
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