Twenty to 30 noise complaints were reported to Tisbury police during the festival.
Ray Ewing

No Serious Incidents at Weekend Festival, Tisbury Officials Say

With the exception of one intoxicated person who was taken into protective custody, police made no arrests and reported no serious incidents during the three-day Beach Road Weekend festival that ended Sunday night.

With the exception of one intoxicated person who was taken into protective custody, police made no arrests and reported no serious incidents during the three-day Beach Road Weekend festival that ended Sunday night.

“We were quite pleased with the outcome,” Tisbury police chief Christopher Habekost told the Gazette Monday afternoon.

“Overall, I think it went quite well,” he said. “We’re happy now that they’re finished and they can start cleaning up.”

The park remains closed through August 31, with Sept. 1 as a rain date, while the stages and festival infrastructure are removed and the fields are restored.

Chief Habekost said between 20 and 30 noise complaints came in to the police station hot line set up for the weekend. All calls were logged and forwarded to the festival response team, he said.

Most of the sound complaints to police came from the vicinity of Veterans Memorial Park, where the music festival took place, but there were also calls from as far away as the Franklin street neighborhood, Chief Habekost said.

Festival organizers also took complaints directly via an internet form, but have not reported how many they received.

Traffic, parking, recycling and communication systems also went “flawlessly” over the weekend, Tisbury town administrator Jay Grande said.

“[It] appears that the measures put in place ... worked as intended,” Mr. Grande told the Gazette.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/29/2023 - 08:40

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OB Resident Oak Bluffs

Seriously? It’s a MUSIC festival. Of course there will be noise. Sheesh! I would love to read those logs…”I hear loud music” duh. Yeah. It’s a concert…relax everyone.

Do they actually think that a complaint call will stop the concert? They are legally permitted and have every right.

I call when I heard automatic weapon shots on a Saturday when I moved here 20 years ago. They said…yeah, it’s the outdoor fun range operated by Goodale. Again..they’re legal right. It’s my right to either stay here or move.

If you don’t like the concert, sell your house and move. Same thing we say to people who live on the Chappy Ferry line street or in proximity to the gun range.

You are free to move. (And you’ll be paid handsomely for your little house here near memorial park..worth way more now than it was when you bought it.

VH Resident Vineyard Haven

Are you seriously suggesting that people who were born and raised here, have extensive family here, and don't have anywhere else to go should move from the only place that they've ever called home because they're negatively impacted by this music festival that didn't exist when their family bought a house up the street decades ago? Perhaps you should consider moving, and please take your ill-informed opinions with you if you do.

Kevin VH

It was a weekend music festival. Well organized and safe. It's silly for you to be talking about moving. Find something else to get upset about.

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