Controversy continues to surround the Middlelands Music Festival weeks after the Texas Renaissance Festival announced Middlelands would not be welcome on their grounds in 2018.
According to a report from the Navasota Examiner, Lynn Betts, the owner of Tejas Alpacas, claimed one of her junior herdsires died during the Middlelands festival. A veterinarian confirmed after a necropsy that the alpaca likely died from extensive stress possibly associated with "the persistent and loud bass" from the festival.
Betts' farm is reportedly half a mile from the Texas Renaissance Festival grounds where Middlelands took place. According to the paper, Betts has raised alpacas on her farm for 14 years.
Upon hearing about her alpacas death, Kyle Peltier, a member of the Call of Booty pirate group that comprised one of the festival's "sound camps" after the main stages shut down at 1 a.m., organized a GoFundMe to help replace the alpaca. The fundraiser reportedly raised $2,000 in a week."We cannot know for certain if the noise from our music festival contributed to Lord Lucas' death," Peltier told the paper. "But as a group of festival patrons we felt like we were part of the local Todd Mission community while we were there, and we wanted to reach out and help our neighbor."
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