RUSH - Bayfest Stage Undergoes $30,000 In Upgrades To Accommodate Live Show
July 9, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Tara Jeffrey from London Free Press, Bayfest’s famous stage underwent a massive makeover to accommodate Canadian music legends RUSH and the largest stage show ever at Sarnia’s summer music festival.
“What they have is really built for an arena, not a stage like ours,” said Bayfest’s Michele Stokley. “They don’t do a lot of festivals like this, but they wanted to do the full show and we wanted to give everyone else the full show.”Stokley is talking about $30,000 in upgrades to the stage’s roof to hold an extravagant lighting plot.
“Our capacity for the roof is 60,000 pounds and they went over by 20,000 pounds because of their moving lighting unit that looks like a giant spider,” said Stokley. “We have to build special trussing for it.”The request is unheard of for a Bayfest act, said Stokley. The only band to reach stage capacity was KISS last summer.
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Rush play Rogers Sarnia Bayfest tonight (Friday, July 9th).
