Concert promoters need to get in and out quickly to minimize impact on public use. He said Waterfront Park has “always been a tricky location” because it’s a public gathering place. “Without Maritime there to shoulder some of the expenses, the event just really doesn’t work,” according to Crothers. That event, Crothers said, benefited from a “symbiotic relationship” where Higher Ground and the festival shared marketing and financial burdens. “It just became clear that we couldn’t hold it together economically.” “We actually did try,” according to Crothers. In fact, it appears that the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival is done for good.Ĭrothers said Higher Ground considered presenting concerts in late July even without the presence of the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival. The annual event in late July that celebrated the lake and the vessels that ply it won’t be happening this year.
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He spoke Friday to the Burlington Free Press about that pair of outdoor festivals as well as the possibility of another season of Backside 405, the concerts that Higher Ground presented last summer in a parking lot off Pine Street.
That won’t be the case, according to Alex Crothers, co-founder of Higher Ground, the South Burlington music venue that has organized concerts for both of those events. With restrictions related to the virus lifting and life returning to some semblance of what it was pre-pandemic, music fans had hopes that either or both of those events would return to Burlington this year. That’s been the case since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March 2020 and wiped out public events including the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival and Vermont musician Grace Potter’s annual Grand Point North festival. This summer will be a quiet one at Waterfront Park, as the concerts that annually brought up to 4,500 music fans a night to the space on Lake Champlain will not take place this year.
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