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Posted: 06/12/2008 01:56 PM
Lauren LaRocca
I was planning to drive to Pittsburgh in another two weeks to go to Jambaloosa, a festival that included an underground stage for all-night dance/DJ music, in addition to two main stages above ground. I wasn’t just planning, I was really looking forward to going to Mines and Meadows to spend the weekend camping, dancing, and eating veggie burritos... or riding ATVs along 600 acres of trails.
Not gonna happen.
A week ago, press announced that Mines and Meadows in Wampum, Pa., was no longer the venue site for Jambaloosa because of safety issues regarding the underground stage. Getting it to code would cost quite a bit of money (though I doubt we’ll ever know the real story, as that of Mines and Meadows and festival organizer Erick Gross contradict each other), but bands on the bill, most of which had not heard anything other than they may play at another venue, were waiting to get a final confirmation: to cancel or not to cancel? Could the festival survive when its uniqueness — a mine and underground lake and strobe lights for the stage — was taken away?
Today, the Jambaloosa website shows, in plain black and white text, a long letter detailing the cancellation — “finally just due to the fate of things Jambaloosa is buried..” — and apologizing.
Refunds can be obtained by emailing jambaloosa@completeticketsolutions.com.
Although not signed, I, as well as others following the Jambaloosa story, assume the update was written by festival organizer Erick Gross.
To read the whole thing, go to http://www.jambaloosa.com/, the site that was filled with color, music, videos and photos of the mine and underground lake just yesterday.
