The stage at an open-air country music festival in Calgary, Canada has collapsed in sudden, high winds, killing one person and injuring 15 others- two being in critical condition. The Associated Press news agency says one of the performers, a member of the Billy Currington band, was removed from the wreckage with a badly injured arm.The Big Valley Jamboree, held annually near Edmonton, in central Alberta, attracts thousands of music fans. Spectators fled in panic as a severe thunderstorm, with high winds and rain, swept through the festival site early on Saturday evening.
One of the Billy Currington band guitarists, Doug Collins, told the Calgary Herald: "I was playing slide guitar and I have to look constantly at my hands. All of a sudden, I saw this blast coming at me and I ran off the stage. "One amp started falling toward me and that is when it got bizarre. That's when I ran." Billy Currington was taken to the hospital as a precaution but released.
Music fan Maris Orydzuk described what happened to Canadian broadcaster CTV: "Next thing I know there is like concrete, and there's something on my back. I can't see a thing.
"It was awful. I thought my life was ending because it was completely dark and black. There was a tiny, tiny hole that I crawled through."
The film actor Kevin Costner, and his band Modern West, were due to perform after Billy Currington.
The video you have at the top of your page is not from the trajic event in Camrose on Aug 1. That is not the same stage (Big Black Machine) and there were not tall buildings behind the stage.
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