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Oswego’s Boots, Bourbon & BBQ Fest will not be rescheduled after weather forced cancellation of event · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Oswego's Boots, Bourbon and barbecue Fest will not be rescheduled after weather
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  forced cancellation of event. Written by Eric Shellkopf. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice, brought to you by Everlit.
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  The village of Oswego will not be able to reschedule its boots,
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  bourbon and barbecue fest after stormy weather on Saturday cancelled the event.
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  The All Day festival had set been to take place at the
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  village owned venue ten twelve in Oswego. Rising Country music artists Hayden
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  Kaufman and Noah Hicks, along with the Yorkville-based Tim Gleason band and
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  students from the School of Rock in Oswego were set to perform
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  at the festival. The festival also was to feature Bay Fifty Four
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  crafted bourbon cocktails, barbecue food trucks, and games. Unfortunately, with events already
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  scheduled at venue 1012 over the next three weekends, along with touring
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  artist schedules and vendor availability, we're unable to reschedule Boots, Bourbon and
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  Barbecue this season. Oswego Events, manager Kelly Bertog said.
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  In an email. Along with holding its own events at Venue Ten
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  Twelve, the village owned outdoor amphitheater is available to rent for public
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  and private events. Prior to the village announcing the event's cancellation and
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  stopping ticket sales that morning, the village had pre sold nearly five
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  hundred tickets for the event. Those purchases have since been refunded in
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  full, Bertog said. In light of dwindling attendance at venue 1012, Oswego
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  scaled back the number of activities at the amphitheater this summer. Instead
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  of venue ten twelve hosting concerts all summer.
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  The village was planning to put on one all day festival the
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  Boots, Bourbon and Barbecue Fest. During a committee of
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  the whole meeting last October, village trustees discussed whether changes needed to
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  be made in the operation of venue 1012. Venue 1012's first full
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  season was 2022. Last year it saw an overall decrease in attendance,
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  which village staff attributed in part to the extreme heat throughout much
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  of last summer. The free movie Movies Under the Stars series, which
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  is run in partnership with the Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department, continued
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  this year. The last free movie of the year, The Nightmare Before
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  Christmas, will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday. Gates open at 5
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  p.m.