A severe weather event in Georgetown forced the Two Step Inn Country Music Festival to cancel night one’s headliners Brooks & Dunn and more acts as rain pelted the concert area.<\/p>\n
The two-day festival begin Saturday afternoon, April 18, with the first two acts set to take the multi-stage event at noon after gates opened at 11 a.m. At about 4:45 p.m., the festival’s social\u00a0media pages posted a graphic announcing they were “monitoring weather approaching,” the festival before announcing a weather delay due to lightening about an hour later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At about 6:30 p.m. the festival sent out another post stating that as the weather had subsided, and they were adjusting the schedule so that Brooks & Dunn would be able to take the stage at 7 p.m. instead of their original time at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
On top of the headliner moving up, the schedule also removed performances from\u00a0Goo Goo Dolls, Wyatt Flores and Tracy Lawrence, while Kaitlin Butts’ Yee-Hoedown and\u00a0Shenanndoah were stopped mid-performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, after another hour and Brooks & Dunn not taking the stage as scheduled in the update, the festival posted on social media they were canceling the rest of the nights acts.<\/p>\n
“Due to The National Weather Service’s updated forecast of severe weather, Two Step Inn is being evacuated and today’s remaining performance has been cancelled. Please head calmly to your nearest exit,” the festival posted. “We understand your frustation (sic), we’re frustrated ourselves with today’s weather. Despite everything, we appreciate y’all for sticking with us as we tried to keep today’s performances on track. Sunday is planned to continue as scheduled. We hope to see y’all out there with us.”<\/p>\n
Replies, comments and videos posted on social media showed festival goers experiences in real time, and had them asking why the shows on day one weren’t outright canceled to begin with. Some attendees were asking how to get stuff they left behind, while others asked if they were going to get refunds, as some paid up to $900 to be VIPs at the event. Others were left asking why the event was listed as “rain or shine” if it was going to get canceled.<\/p>\n
Some folks in Instagram\u00a0comments also had a bone to pick with this same event having issues with rain in previous years. “Every single year the weather sucks. Do it in Feb march or may,” one Instagram user said. “4th year in a row that y\u2019all have had weather issues. Change the dates. Refund or reschedule,” another said. “Three years in a row and yall KNEW it was gonna pour this weekend but still had ZERO contingency plan, awful communication plans, and how do you not have more temporary shelters set up in preparation,” another comments on Instagram said. “Absolutely horrific festival planning once again, and we all know you\u2019ll do nothing to rectify this with the consumers who spent hundreds of dollars to be here. Smh.”<\/p>\n
MySA has reached out to the festival for further comment, and has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n
The festival’s social media does say Sunday’s show, featuring headliner Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Randy Travis, Randy Rogers Band, Clay Walker and more, is still scheduled as normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe weather event in Georgetown forced the Two Step Inn Country Music Festival to cancel night one’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2107,847,820,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-257001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-mysaentertainment","9":"tag-mysanews","10":"tag-mysastaff","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}