SCARBOROUGH — Waterfront Concerts has announced the first of
five shows it plans to stage this summer at Scarborough Downs.
The 2012 Oxxfest show will kick off at 11 a.m.
on Friday, Aug. 10, to a day-long schedule that includes alternative and metal
bands
A parking plan submitted by Waterfront president
Alex Gray when granted mass gathering permits by the Scarborough Town Council
shows room for 1,259 vehicles on site. Scarborough’s mass gathering ordinance
limits attendance to 3.5 people per vehicle, meaning up shows to 4,406 rockers
could descend on the show. That would be down from the 5,500 reported at the
2011 Oxxfest show in Bangor’s Waterfront Pavillion, where Gray has staged
A-list shows for the past three years.
Tentative listings for future shows in
Scarborough include country superstar Miranda Lambert on Friday, July 27; some
combination of alternative rockers Train, Matt Carney and Demi Lovato on Friday,
Aug. 24; and, on Saturday, Sept. 1, the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival,
currently touring with metal bands Slipknot, Slayer, Motorhead and Anthrax in
its lineup.
Gray also has reported attempts to bring a Bob
Dylan/Willie Nelson/Leon Russell show to town.
“We’ve had discussion with these acts, with
their management and their agents,” said Gray. “They are holding dates for us.
The routing works. They are in the region. They would like to play the state of
Maine.
For Scarborough Downs, the deal gives a harness
racing track with a recent history of declining fortunes a chance to find the
money denied by repeated voter refusal to allow its transformation into a
racino.
“I don’t think this is going to generate the
same revenue as the slot would have, but it is a revenue source that we are
looking to, to diversify, the same as any business needs to,” said Stephen
Cobbett, director of operations at the Downs in a recent interview.
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