The Hilo Fairgrounds has been selected as the new location for the Big Island Massive Reggae Concert. It isn’t just any Reggae Concert it is a Massive Concert and it turns out is was too big for its original location which was the Hilo Dragstrip. Well it wasn’t really too big, it just so happened that the concert was booked immediately prior to the Big Island Auto Club’s fundraiser for the Food Basket and they were worried that the close booking didn’t allow enough time for proper cleanup between the two events.
According to Hawaii 24/7:
An unforeseen scheduling conflict involving a Hilo concert and a motorsports race has been resolved, with the concert promoters graciously agreeing with the County to an alternate venue, the Hawai’i County Department of Parks and Recreation announced Thursday.
The Big Island Massive Reggae concert and voter-awareness event will be held April 20 within the fairgrounds area outside the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.
I’m just glad that they could work things out. Overall I think that this can be really good for the concert because this moves its venue closer to the center of Hilo making it more convenient for people to attend.