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Show Wooden, It’s Been Nice A summer of outdoor music draws to a close By Cornelia de Bruin ences as large as 500 Boop. on at least. t’s been a very long, busy summer for Randy Barton. The proprietor of The Wooden one occasion. © -Dog/Mountain Town Stages took ona huge job when he expanded his free summer concert series to a whopping— total of 75 shows. Although the performances were originally planned for three venues in Park City, one was later cut because of a lack of nearby local aN Barton worked all winter sali a city” council-appointed committee to fine-‘tune the concert series after multiple complaints last summer. He says that this summer, neighbors Melanie Rief and Ron Whaley also complained—but not as much. “There was complaining at the beginning and end of the sum-_ ba: ag AT ena & = i ¥ Melissa Warner and her band wow ‘em at the Summit Watch @ Black Diamond BY CORNELIA DE BRUIN businesses. The specially designed stage at the Town Lift Plaza “didn’t go so UtaH well,” Barton says. The problem was instances when Rief personally visited that businesses that had planned to- the Summit Watch during concerts. She AVALANCHE CENTER! SPONSORED BY BLACK DIAMOND, EVOLUTION & UINTA BREWING COMPANY. WHEN: Thursday September 21, 2000. 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. eiara Pyne chess oO. WHERE: 30 | SEPTEMBER 14, 2000 | mer, but they kind of disappeared during the middle.” He does recall two PLEASE JOIN US AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE How: Black Diamond Equipment 2084 East 3900 South | Salt Lake City, Utah $27 before September 16th". $30 at the door Or acole ae —_ JERRY JOSEPH e ual Ort ere pastel “Only early ticket purchases intlude raffle entry. INFORMATION & TICKET SALES: 365-5522 Seah open at that location changed their minds. “There was no service for audiences,” Barton says. “It’s hard to keep people there when they aa buy food or beverages.” Barton adds that a second cae at the Park City Mountain Resort, will “need to be tweaked” next summer because of the placement of its stage. Barton explains that the shows “were » kind of moved off to the side ... there wasn’t as great an ambiance as we’d hoped for.” People didn’t have shade or easy access to food and drinks. The big success, though, was the stage next to Dynamite Dom’s restau- rant on the Marriott Summit Watch Plaza. Concerts held there had audi- asked the sound engineer to turn the ‘music down on one occasion, although it was within the council’s set decibel limits. On a second, a took photos of the band. What’s Barton doing, now that he can breathe? “I’ll be making a report to the council, and talking to the police about the series,” he says. “I’m also try- ing to invent a way to hold free concerts during the winter ... and plan to do this again next summer.” There’s also a trip to Costa Rica in the future for Barton, who will spend a couple of weeks in the Central American country with his wife in Novem ber. |