To WOW or not to WOW

For those of you who packed your lawn chairs and water bottles down to the wharf last night hoping to see the Salmon Armenians, I want to explain how the WOW! concert rain policy works. Our sound technician, Bryan, nice guy, requires about two hours to set up the electrical equipment. The sound check is at 6:15pm, so that puts him at the park around 4pm. If it's raining, he can't set up electrical equipment. If it's a shower and we expect it to end within an hour, then he can hang around and then start setting up double-time around 5pm. If it looks like it's going to rain for a while, then we're basically finished. The band also requires some time to set up before the sound check. If it starts raining during the concert, it's not as bad, things can be tarped. However, because there are no gutters on the gazebo, a lot of water finds its way onto the stage, damaging the musician's equipment.

So, if it's raining at 4pm, and the forecast is for more rain, we cancel the concert. If the sun busts through at 6:30pm and everyone gets excited, wanders down to the park and finds it cancelled.... well, now you know why. To find out if a concert is cancelled, listen to EZ Rock (we always tell them first) or call the Arts Council office 832-6807 (we will put a message on the answering machine).