Capulet Fest cancels final day: “No one sees the sacrifice. All they do is judge.”

After over 15 bands dropped off its lineup following a last minute venue change that moved the festival over an hour away, from the 10,000+ capacity Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park to 1,200 capacity club The Webster, Connecticut’s Capulet Fest has made another last minute change, cancelling scheduled third day on Sunday. A message from organizers on Facebook reads, “Sunday is no longer an option. We fought. We wrestled with obstacle after obstacle. We became a target. We became hated, even when we were doing our best to save something and give you the best show possible. No one sees the sacrifice. All they do is judge. We did everything we could. We hope you had fun. We did our best. Thank you to everyone who came out and had a blast. We hope you enjoyed the meet and greets. We hope you enjoyed the music. Goodbye.”

As Lambgoat points out, LiveKill‘s set on Saturday was cut short by venue security two songs in. The band started a livestream on Instagram to talk about the situation, where they said, “security comes in, says the dude didn’t pay the rent, made everybody leave”:

Festival promoter Estevan Vega of Capulet Entertainment talked to Hartford CBS affiliate WFSB on Friday, saying, “It’s not the speedway’s fault, they wanted to still do the event there, we wanted to still do the event there. I’m sure people have been hearing and speculating online as to what all went down, but we couldn’t make the production work.”

A source told WFSB that Vega hadn’t paid multiple companies involved in the production ahead of the festival. In response, Vega said, “I would say that is not fully true. We disagreed on certain amounts and certain pay schedules but there was money invested, there was several six figures invested. It became too much to bear for one promoter.”

Asked by WFSB if ticketholders would receive refunds, Vega said, “We’re working that out, I can’t say yes or no at the moment. We definitely have clearly stated policies when people purchase tickets, we also had clearly available ticket purchase protection which was an option for people.”