A week after Dierks Bentley's Seven Peaks Music Festival was canceled 'due to current capacity restrictions in place by local health officials,' those officials are pushing back
But long before the cancellation, Chaffee County officials were irritated that festival organizers were moving forward without approval. According to 9News in Denver, after grilling Live Nation promoter:"Are you sh---ing me? You know we have a 5,000-person event capacity and you've already sold more tickets than that? What the hell, Jim?"
Helmke say the rural county kept the capacity limit because the region has one 36-bed hospital and"pretty limited resources in terms of first responders and law enforcement and infrastructure." This year’s Seven Peaks was supposed to be the festival’s third installment, after stars such as Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan and Maren Morris performed in 2018 and 2019. The festival reportedly drew 8,000 attendees in 2018, then 13,000 in 2019, before skipping 2020 due to the pandemic.
Helmke says the county contacted Live Nation to “seek clarification” after promoters canceled the festival to ask whether they were trying to withdraw their special-event permit application: "It is our understanding from Live Nation that they do not intend to pursue events in Chaffee County again.”A Seven Peaks spokesperson responded:"When the county’s Board of Health didn't raise the capacity limits, that meant the festival couldn’t go forward.
Buena Vista, surrounded by the Collegiate Peaks mountain range, has roughly 2,800 residents and has been conflicted over country and rock festivals in recent years. In 2016, the Vertex Festival, featuring Odesza and Alabama Shakes, drew noise complaints, and county officials later chose not to grant organizer Madison House's request for a three-year extension.
"You have on one side a demographic that didn't move to the mountain to be in the middle of a large-scale traffic jam and doesn't want to have noise at all hours; there's another component [that believes] a lot of revenue gets created that can really have a huge impact on these towns," says Don Strasburg, co-president of AEG Rocky Mountains, which helped put on Vertex."There's this pull and push within their own community with what they want to be in the future.
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