The musical festival When We Were Young abruptly canceled its Saturday lineup on the identical day a few of its greatest artists have been set to take the stage.
In an announcement on their social media web page, organizers of the emo music festival, which has a lineup that features Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne and a bevy of different bands and performers, shared that the cancelation of the Saturday lineup was because of the harmful winds on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
“When We Were Young Festival organizers have spent the last several days proactively preparing the festival grounds for a windy Saturday. The National Weather Service has now upgraded their Saturday forecast to a High Wind Warning, including dangerous 30-40 mph sustained winds with potential 60 mph gusts,” the assertion from festival organizers reads.
The festival organizer add that the selection to cancel the festivities was made after cautious advisement from each climate and security consultants.
“Under advisement of the National Weather Service and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, we have no other choice than to cancel today’s When We Were Young Festival,” it concludes. “The safety of our fans, artists and staff will always be our top priority.”
In a press release to Yahoo Entertainment, the festival organizers stated, “Ticketholders who purchased their tickets directly through the festival’s ticketing company, Front Gate Tickets, for Saturday, October 22nd’s When We Were Young Festival will receive a refund in as little as 30 days to the original form of payment. According to the National Weather Service, Sunday’s weather looks sunny without any wind advisories. When We Were Young’s additional dates including Sunday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 29, are moving forward accordingly.”
As anticipated, the choice to cancel the Saturday portion of the present, which included Lavigne and My Chemical Romance, did not sit nicely with excited festival goers, lots of whom had traveled to Las Vegas from out of city particularly for the occasion. Fans flooded WWWY’s social media pages, which had simply posted on Friday night about being excited to kick off the festival, in addition to took to Twitter to precise their disappointment.
LadyGang co-host Jac Vanek took to social media to precise her disappointment, making a video set to the viral TikTookay model of a person singing Secondhand Serenade’s music “Fall For You.”
“POV you just heard When We Were Young Fest is cancelled and you don’t know wtf to do with your life,” Vanek wrote on her video.
On their very own Twitter web page, My Chemical Romance re-shared the assertion from the festival and included their very own message as nicely.
“To the fans who have tickets to WWWY night 1, we are so sorry that dangerous weather caused the show to be canceled,” the band wrote.
Taking Back Sunday additionally commented, solidifying the organizers’ resolution to cancel. “We are here and it is very unsafe conditions with the staging and gear. We will see you tomorrow,” the band wrote.
Dashboard Confessional, who just isn’t set to take the stage till Sunday, additionally chimed in.
“Stay safe out there today!” the band wrote. “I’ll be seeing you tomorrow!”
Yahoo Entertainment reached out to organizers of the When We Were Young festival and representatives for Lavigne however didn’t obtain a press release by the point of publication.
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