Lakeland Area Music Festi...Ahhh Party

After many months of fantasies, lies, delusions, local and ordinances in place the festival is now a party. This is because of the potential fines and legal issues with not having the permits in place. 
The tickets sold for this event are now being considered donations to the party. David also was encouraging partygoers to use the state park facilities to shower.

The blame for the chaos around this should be solely on Jason Delzell and David Simon. Jason should never have been the point person and talking head for this. Many people, including myself, think David was taken advantage of. Thing is, I believe this less and less now. He continued to let Jason speak on this. He had others defending the festival and answering questions who had no idea what was being blamed. He turned way help. There were people with professional experience to help promote and organize something closer to their original plan. Where David was taken advantage of was from one local business owner who took advantage of this situation to better his business.

The blame shifted as the bands bailed due to lack of communication, lack of planning, lack of professionalism, and the insults. It was the local township officials, then it was on the bands.
David claimed there was a schedule with time and dates. I believe there was, but it was not out long, and many bands who submitted to play never got a formal confirmation and invitation via email. There are posts from Jason saying they were still confirming bands and the lineup would be out in June, but David contradicted that by saying the confirmations were made when the bands signed up. The bands submitted their info to play, that is not confirmation. Even when David made the comment all bands signed up were playing (part of one of the first concerns of the festival).

There are still claims of multiple stages at the farm, but when I visited a few weeks back, the original two stages were built with no progress other than that. I saw the two original stages, one porta-potty, and a stacked pile of logging pads sitting near the road. While visiting I noticed out in front of the stage was a pile of fill that was grass covered. It would make it tough for a few hundred people watching.

As the months of insults, lack of communication, lies, multiple confusing answers from multiple people the blame at the end was put on the bands. It was the bands' fault for the festival being downgraded to a party. But, since those of us who questioned the organization of this festival were banned from their Facebook page, it is now more of a cult like yes man page with everyone pretty much calling what was said by the questioners as being negative. Negative? No, but more of concerned for the safety of the bands, vendors, and fans who were planning to attend.

I'd like to a moment and say thank you to all who questioned and spoke out on this to shine the light on the potential dangers: Local government officials, the township, neighbors, potential bands, and fans who thought of joining. I truly believe this could have been something cool. Lack of planning and lack of leadership from the organizers lead to this, not the bands. 

Don't believe me, go back and listen to the podcasts: The 5/3 one was great. You can hear the six different levels of changing slurred speech with Jason and him texting. 
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The Lakeland Area Music Festival Promotional Networking 03/30 by Macs Musings | Movies (blogtalkradio.com)
Lamfest, with David Simons 04/07 by Macs Musings | Movies (blogtalkradio.com)
Lakeland Area Music Festival, Linesville, PA 05/03 by Macs Musings | Movies (blogtalkradio.com)
LAMFest Questions 05/17 by Macs Musings | Movies (blogtalkradio.com)


Go look at the change.org petition: Petition · ALLOW LAMFEST Multi-Genre Music Festival in Linesville, PA 700+ BANDS - United States · Change.org
Go look at the remaining website: Lakeland Area Music Festival 2024 (godaddysites.com)


The documentary on this will be great. A definite Spinal Tap feel, but with the reality that this was not scripted.

Happy Independence Day!


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