PRYOR, Okla. (AP) — The Rocklahoma music festival rocked on Sunday in spite of a storm that collapsed two side stages and caused a 2½-hour rain delay Saturday afternoon.
“Right now the skies are good and it’s not too terribly hot,” Rob Miller of Event Marketing Group, spokesman for the five-day festival, said Sunday afternoon.
The festival resumed Sunday, it’s final day, and all 122 bands that were scheduled to perform will take the stage after three new side stages were built Sunday morning. Miller said the first act took the stage at 1 p.m. Sunday.
“In six years at the Catch the Fever Festival Grounds, every band on the main stage has performed at both Country Fever and Rocklahoma,” said Operations Manager Dave Giencke said. “We want to give our fans the ultimate experience.”
Saturday’s storm struck at about 5:45 p.m., organizers said
“It was incredible. It really did come form nowhere,” Miller said. “Part of our grounds are a little bit muddy.”
“In just three minutes, we went from rain showers to a storm that I have not seen in my thirty years” said Rocklahoma’s onsite weather expert Mike Orange. “There was not enough time to warn everyone in advance.”
Winds in excess of 65 mph collapsed two temporary side stages. No one was injured due to the collapse although one woman broke her arm as she was running for cover from the rain, slipped and fell.
The music festival resumed about 8:17 p.m. and every band that was scheduled to perform had received their full set time when the last act ended at 1:40 a.m. Sunday, organizers said.
“Our commitment to the fans is always our number one priority,” said Mark Nuessle, general manager of Catch the Fever Music Festivals. “When we felt that everyone was safe, we chose to continue on with the festival.”
Organizers say Rocklahoma is the world’s largest rock festival of its type featuring bands from the ’80s.
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