<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I’m not a lawyer, probably should have become one when the college’s attorney told me I’d be good at it but now the ROI is not worth 3 years in law school. So here’s what this overeducated layperson thinks... </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If the local municipal authorities (e.g., governor, mayor, town council, law enforcement) have told folks to stay off the roads because it’s not safe (not just the weather guy on TV) I suspect a claim of Force Majeure will hold, but it’s technically an “Act of God” since it’s Mother Nature’s fault so if the presiding jurisdiction treats them the same, you should be fine. Are there places that treat it differently? I don’t know. Maybe? I do know that kind of hair-splitting definition parsing makes lawyers giggle with glee. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you were to go to court as the hosting venue, you would show that you lost ticket revenue, box office expenses (credit card charge fees), advertising expenses, wage for staff/stagehands who pre-set items, wages for anyone in the building already if it was cancelled the day of, etc. to show you also had a loss similar to what the Artist is missing by not being paid for the show. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best option for all sides is to postpone the event to a mutually agreeable date and try again. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Now, let’s see how Richard Niederberg rips this apart. ;) </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kristi R-C</div></div></body></html>