Bad Weather For BeachGlow

The weather wasn’t great for BeachGlow Music Festival from the get-go, but many fans still made their way to the beach to see a lineup including Tommy Trash, Vicetone, Lost Kings, Synchronice and several others.

But as time passed, things got progressively worse and the city urged the fest to pull the plug.

“We’re very very sorry to our BeachGlow fans,” the fest announced on Facebook. “City officials have unfortunately cancelled BeachGlow for safety reasons (storm surge/rising tide, unsafe winds, torrential rains and a risk of electrocution). We support the city’s decision, even though we’re very sad about it. Your safety comes first.”

BeachGlow later added that it was forced to shorten the 11-hour event to three hours of music, opening at 1 p.m., announcing a precautionary rain/wind evacuation at 4 p.m., and then shutting down a half hour later.

“In retrospect, we know we made the right call at the right time, as we found ourselves struggling to keep festival structures and equipment grounded and intact for hours into the night after evacuation,” the statement said.

“The safety of our fans is always our primary concern. From 4pm throughout the evening, conditions on the beach were considerably worse than on the Boardwalk and further west.

“Torrential rains, storm surge, wind gusts up to 50 mph, the possibilities of a toppling stage and structure, flooding, lightning, and hazardous electrical conditions—the risks were too high. We are thankful to announce today that because we took these preventative measures we received no injury reports whatsoever from the weather conditions and festival.”

This was BeachGlow’s first year in Atlantic City. The event lost a deal with the city of Wildwood after business owners near the festival site complained about drug use, underage drinking and offensive language on stage at the concert.