Grand Weekend Lime Rock Park, a three-day music and automotive festival for “grown-ups” scheduled at Lime Rock Park in Lakeland from July 8 to 10 has been canceled for 2016 because of “recent changes in local regulations” established after the announcement of Grand Weekend, according to Rick Roso, Lime Rock Park’s communications director.
Roso says the regulations “now require a special permitting process that we would have not been able to complete in time to properly promote and sell the event.” Roso is confident Grand Weekend will happen in 2017.
“Even if there is no change in the legal situation, we’ll have plenty of time to do the permitting process for next year. We think this is a really cool automotive event.”
“We are hopeful we can move ahead next year at Lime Rock Park,” co-founder Roger Garbow said in a press release. “The response to the Grand Weekend concept has been overwhelmingly positive and we can’t wait to bring it to life.”
Garbow and co-founder Dave Goldenberg, his partner in Smoky Donut Productions, hoped to target adults interested in luxury cars, food, wine, art and — most of all — a comfortable concert experience.
“These are not old people,” Goldenberg told The Courant in December 2015. “These are people who have grown-up lives and grown-up jobs. These are people who are put off by the experience of a festival that targets young people.”
