The last time most people heard of Index Fest was in August, when promoters announced that the Deep Ellum music festival would be moving from its spot on the fall calendar to spring 2016. It’s now spring 2016, and there’s been no further word about the possibility of a fourth edition of the large-scale event.

The festival’s website continues to feature a banner for the 2014 event. The most recent “news” on the website is the August release about the date change. The festival’s Facebook page hasn’t been updated since — you guessed it — the August news release, which optimistically claimed the dates for Index would be announced by Nov. 10.

Spune, the outfit behind the festival, continues to promote the other shows and events it has a hand in, including Untapped and last year’s Reunion Festival, without mentioning Index. Fans who have written on the Facebook pages for Index Festival and Spune have apparently gotten the silent treatment:

I left several messages with people at Spune this week, and didn’t have any more luck getting a response. As for the question in the headline of this blog post: Your guess is good as mine.

If Index Fest is no more, that’s a shame, but it’s understandable. Throwing an Index-sized festival is hard work. There are already a lot of music festivals in North Texas. Spune has its hands full with Untapped and its other shows.

What’s a little less understandable is selling tickets to a music festival and then cancelling the event without telling anyone. Whatever the case may be, seven months of silence breeds plenty of speculation, almost none of it good.