***UPDATE BELOW***
Last weekend’s Precipice music fest gotraves from many in attendance (including Seven Days‘ Dan Bolles), butthe local bands’ sound was not music to the ears of at least a fewneighbors.
Christine Plunkett, president ofBurlington College, says she received three sets of complaints aboutnoise resonating far from the Precipice site on the school’s grounds.”We learned a lesson,” the educator acknowledges. ButPlunkett still gives the Precipice two thumbs up — way up — and saysthe college is “absolutely open” to hosting other concerts.
A Friday afternoon sound check hadindicated music, playing on four stages on a ridge above Lake Champlain, could not be heard at all on North Avenue, Plunkett recounts. Thebowl shape of the open land west of the college’s main buildingapparently prevents sound from carrying to nearby homes, she notes.The president adds that she visited several nearby homes prior to theevent to inform residents about the festival, leaving them with hercellphone number in case of problems.
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