METALLICA - City Dispute In Halifax Resolved; Show Will Go Ahead
June 28, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Thechronicleherald.ca, the stand off between Harold MacKay and Halifax over permits and services for the METALLICA concert has ended, and it appears the city blinked.
At a hastily called news conference at his lawyer’s office in Dartmouth, MacKay cheerfully announced that the heavy metal show will go ahead as planned on July 14 with no strings attached.
The city had threatened to withhold support for the event if a $359,550 shortfall from last year’s failed concerts on the Commons was not paid back. MacKay’s Power Promotional Events put on those shows and then closed up shop. The promoter for the Metallica concert is MacKay Entertainment Inc., a new company headed by MacKay’s wife Michelle.
A chipper MacKay - flanked by his lawyer, David Coles, Richard Butts, the chief administrative officer for Halifax Regional Municipality, and city lawyer Martin Ward - said it’s all good now.
“Everything’s a go,” he said.
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Metallica is set to perform on the Garrison Grounds July 14, with ticket prices $99.50, plus tax and fees.
