New Cavendish rock concert gets green light
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Sommo Competition will happen in Cavendish this summer season.
After reconsidering a earlier vote, the Resort Municipality has voted to permit the brand new Sommo music and culinary pageant to happen in Cavendish on July 14 and 15.
The brand new pageant had proved controversial after native tourism operators raised considerations about holding the brand new music pageant one week after the Cavendish Seashore Music Competition.
Many cottage, resort and mattress and breakfast operators, who had already made bookings that weekend previous to the approval of the pageant, stated the pageant would disrupt household vacationers within the space.
Ben Murphy, CEO of Whitecap Leisure, has stated the brand new pageant would differ from Cavendish Seashore Music Competition and would draw an older, extra rock-oriented crowd. The headlining acts for the pageant have but to be introduced.
The vote approving a allow for the pageant, which was held throughout a particular assembly on March 1, adopted a detailed vote on Feb. 27 by council that appeared to disclaim a allow for the Sommo Competition.
Three councillors had voted to just accept the suggestions of the municipality’s planning board to disclaim a allow for the brand new pageant, primarily based partly on considerations from native residents.
However one councillor, Kay Hryckiw, later requested a reconsideration of that vote primarily based on confusion across the movement.
That reconsideration vote, held on March 1, got here to a distinct conclusion. Council voted 3-2 to not settle for suggestions put ahead by the municipality’s planning board.
Matthew Jelley, mayor of the Resort Municipality, chaired the assembly and didn’t participate within the vote.
“The movement is defeated. The votes had been clear,” Jelley stated on March 1.
A later movement by council was put ahead to grant a one-year allow to Whitecap Leisure to carry the pageant over the July 14 and 15 weekend, topic to some circumstances.
That movement additionally handed 3-2.
Councillors debated a proposal to impose a one per cent levy on ticket gross sales for the brand new pageant. Ultimately, the proposal put ahead by Coun. Chris Robinson was eliminated after Jelley urged council must undertake a brand new bylaw with a purpose to impose the levy.
Stu Neatby is a political reporter with the SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. He may be reached by e mail at [email protected] and adopted on Twitter @stu_neatby.
