Three of the head­line steel or­ches­tras billed to per­form at Sat­ur­day’s Gen­er­a­tions of Steel con­cert at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah have with­drawn from the event, cit­ing con­trac­tu­al and ad­min­is­tra­tive is­sues.

Des­per­a­does Steel Or­ches­tra, First Cit­i­zens Su­per­novas and Shell In­vaders Steel Or­ches­tra all an­nounced on Fri­day that they would no longer be per­form­ing at the event, which is sched­uled to take place on Ju­ly 11.

In a state­ment, Des­per­a­does said both its se­nior and youth or­ches­tras had tak­en the de­ci­sion not to per­form be­cause of “an im­passe re­gard­ing prospec­tive con­trac­tu­al agree­ments with the or­ga­niz­ers.”