Okeechobee Residents Battle To Preserve Pageant From Overlapping With Native Occasions
In line with numerous sources shut with the scenario, Okeechobee Music Pageant has been purchased by Insomniac Occasions and can return in 2020 to Florida. That is trigger for celebration for a lot of devoted festival-goers who fell in love with the occasion; sadly, not everyone seems to be equally ecstatic.
The Okeechobee County Cattlemen’s Affiliation has referred to as upon its members to attend the Okeechobee Board of County Commissioner’s assembly tomorrow, Thursday, June 27. In line with OCCA, Insomniac will try and petition BOCC to permit them to carry their occasion the identical weekend because the Speckled Perch Pageant and our Spring PRCA Rodeo, which has been held “on the 2nd weekend [in March] for over 50 years.”
OCCA will not be trying to cancel the pageant, solely make sure that it doesn’t intervene with their beforehand scheduled occasion. Many Okeechobee Pageant goers flooded the feedback in help.
“We don’t wish to smash your rodeo and pageant both so we’d be glad to see all of the occasions coordinated to separate weekends,” one particular person mentioned.
“As an avid attendee of Okeechobee music pageant I would love the individuals of the city to know that we’re not your enemy,” mentioned one other. “I hope the pageant organizers can see the significance of this and everybody can come to an settlement.”
“As a pageant goer I don’t wish to intervene with y’all’s large occasions of the 12 months. I hope we will all work this out collectively,” one more mentioned.
The assembly is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10am native time.
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Posted by Okeechobee County Cattlemen’s Affiliation on Monday, June 24, 2019
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