Update: Will Rothbury 2011 Happen?

Back in October, HT’s Ryan Dembinsky chatted with Bill Nershi and the SCI frontman let it slip that the band was looking into the possibility of throwing its own festival at Rothbury…

“We’re also planning on doing something next summer at the Rothbury site. That will be a weekend festival with a lot of String Cheese sets. It’ll be different from Rothbury in that it will be more like our thing at Horning’s, where String Cheese plays every night, and it will include bands in our String Cheese family with art installations and that kind of thing.”

Ever since that day we haven’t heard word one about the status of Rothbury 2011…until today. The Muskegon Chronicle reports that Rothbury festival organizers “are holding negotiations to bring a music festival back to Double JJ resort.” Here’s more from that article…

Grant Township Clerk William Wagner said Madison House Presents president and CEO Jeremy Stein met with officials earlier this week to talk about plans for a festival, but no date has been set. Madison House Presents is the company that put on the Rothbury festival in 2008 and 2009.

Rothbury Police Chief Tom Hasper said the village of Rothbury has an agreement to supply a liquor license for a festival at Double JJ, because Grant Township is “dry.” He said nothing has been finalized yet.

“The liquor licenses are all ready to go; They’re just waiting for the date,” he said.

The article doesn’t mention whether the fest would be based around multiple headliners like Rothbury 2008 and 2009 or would be a String Cheese Incident-fronted affair as discussed by Nershi in his talk with HT. It’s just nice to see the wheels are in motion. As soon as we hear anything further about the status of Rothbury 2011, we’ll let you know. [MLive.com via CoS]