UPDATE: Freakish May Snow Cancels Music in the Junction; Farmers Market Still On

Updated at 11:45 a.m.

Tonight's Music in the Junction concert featuring the band Boomerang has been cancelled due to a freak May snow storm, but the opening night of the Valley Junction Farmers Market is still on.

Historic Valley Junction Foundation Director Jim Miller said the Farmers Market will be smaller than usual and vendors will be concentrated – or huddled, given the wintry weather – in the 100 block of Fifth Street.

Earlier, Patch reported:

Rewind to December when the Historic Valley Junction Foundation held its Jingle in the Junction holiday open houses. Snow and mild (for December) temperatures would have added a festive touch.

But for the beginning of the Farmers Market/Music in the Junction? Not so much.

“Should I sing Christmas carols?” Jim Miller, the foundation’s executive director, quipped. “We love snow for Jingle or Junction, but just not on May 2.”

The Farmers Market will go on as scheduled tonight. A decision will be made by noon on whether to cancel the Music in the Junction concert featuring the band Boomerang.

Miller thinks the band – a great group, he said, made up of a great group of guys – has bad weather karma, at least when it comes to the opening night of Music in the Junction.

Boomerang was the opening act for Valley Junction’s Thursday night concert series last year, too.

“Minus the snow, we had very similar weather last year,” Miller said. “They have a bad weather connection, I guess.”

The farmers’ market and concerts continue every Thursday night through September. Miller said the foundation cancels those events for tornadoes, lightning and straight-line wins.

“I guess we’ll have to add snow to that,” he said.

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