Forget skydiving and promiscuous sex, concert-going has recently emerged as the most dangerous pastime.
1 person died and as many as 40 others were injured when a stage collapsed while country music singer Billy Currington was performing at the Big Valley Jamboree, one of Canada’s biggest country music festivals. Currington himself received several lacerations on his face, and one of his band members was taken to the hospital after being pulled from the wreckage with a serious arm injury.
Witnesses said that the power went out and the stage just sort of “crumbled.” A strong thunderstorm that produced “hurricane level” winds and marble-sized hail is thought to have contributed to the stage’s collapse.
With the collapse of a stage in Marseille, France that was being constructed for a Madonna concert, that makes two people that have been killed in the last month by concert stages.
Perhaps the only good thing to come out of this is that the performances for the rest of the evening were cancelled after the stage collapsed. How is that a good thing you ask? Kevin Costner and his band Modern West were scheduled to perform next.
I think that actually makes three. There was a second person who died later at the hospital after Madonna’s stage collapsed, no?
Either way, now I have to google Billy Currington to see if I care.
this happened in my hometown, and we don’t usually get storms like this in the middle of the prairies…there are pictures of the clouds right before it hit that are just creepy.
Looks like Mother Nature hates country music as much as I do.
There was a severe storm warning at the time but it was still shocking how quickly the wind whipped up. It was over 100 km/hour for a brief period. It knocked over one of my planted pots which weighs more than 25 kg (over 50 lb.)
One might suggest that, in reference to the presense of a Kevin Costner band, that if the fates were truly kind, and wished to spare us… the stage would have collapsed just a little later.
I made it thru 32 seconds of that song; I dare someone to make it thru the end; ok, I lasted 32 seconds because I thought the stage was gonna collapse, after 6 seconds I couldn’t look at Kevin Costner anymore and read the post again, realizing it wasn’t gonna collapse and with such, no need to hurt myself with that warbling that was being recorded.