Big Valley Jamboree - sunny on July 31, 2009 (Taylor and Kevin)

Big Valley Jamboree - knocked over toilets on August 1, 2009 (Taylor and Kevin)

"Family has identified Donna Moore of Lloydminster as the woman killed at the Big Valley Jamboree after the festival's main stage collapsed during a severe thunderstorm Saturday.

Moore's son, Mike Tebbe, spent Sunday together with family and said he was not prepared to talk about his mother yet.

Moore was a huge country music fan who was at the festival for the weekend, said friend Warne Noyce.

"She was pumped to go to Big Valley. It makes me sick to my stomach because she was such an awesome lady," he said. "She was hanging out watching music with people she loved."...

...Stage speakers fell on Moore, crushing her, after a wind gust of about 100 kilometres per hour toppled stage scaffolding." [Calgary Herald]

The final day (Sunday) of the Camrose, Alberta festival was cancelled after the tragedy. The next band set to play on Saturday when the storm hit was Kevin Costner & Modern West (yes, that Kevin Costner).

NYC had their own storms this weekend too, causing chaos and cancellations for outdoor music, but luckily no tragedies.

Videos from Big Valley below...

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Boris @ South Street Seaport (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Illinois @ Rehab
* The Sway Machinery @ Southpaw
* Tina Turner @ Nassau Coliseum
* Boss Hog & Talk Normal @ Maxwell's
* King Khan & BBQ show @ the WIRED store
* Special Disco Version @ Santos Party House
* Vampire Weekend & The Teenagers @ Terminal 5
* Stellastarr*, Wakey! Wakey! & The Mood @ Pianos
* Boris, Growing & CLOUDS @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Ted Leo & The Pharmacists & Andrew W.K. @ Studio B
* Ghostface, Digable Planets & Alchemist @ Highline Ballroom
* Rosie Thomas and friends, Sheila Saputo & Cheyenne @ The Bell House
* Snowden, Sebastien Grainger, Twin Tigers & Josh Reichmann @ Mercury
* Gods and Monsters, Radio I-Ching (w/ James Chance) & Uncle Monk @ Cake Shop

Josh Reichmann, on tour with Sebastien Grainger, was the singer of Tangiers.

Here's the list of songs Ted Leo will be doing tonight.

Kevin Costner is in a band and has a new album and was supposed to play Gramercy Theatre today, but it was cancelled.

Ozzy Osbourne was born today in 1948.

These Arms are Snakes' new video for "Red Line Season" is below...

What else?

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