One person died and 15 were wounded in a country music festival, near the western Canadian city of Edmonton, on Saturday when the main stage collapsed during a severe storm, police said. Billy Currington packaging is set up in the Grand Valley Jamboree, an event for four days near Camrose, about an hour’s drive southwest of Edmonton, when the stage was suddenly strong winds, local media reported.

The wounded were taken to hospital after a thrown rescue workers from around the main stage area, police said, adding that the organizers had not yet decided whether to continue the festival.

One of the performers, Jessie Farrell, said she was in his trailer when he was told that a storm was on its way. The scenario was followed by only a minute and a half later. The most intense winds, rain and lightning lasted about an hour, he said.

"I do not feel like a storm around and went back to our trailer and looked out the window and saw all the stage of collapse," he told CTV News.

"The whole world shook. Our trailers were a big earthquake and wind, almost a kind of explosion, through the stage and is flattened."

The storm was part of a major system that blew through much of the province of Alberta, on Saturday, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and hail.

Early reports said dozens of people may have been caught by the police, but collapsed later confirmed the number of injured at 15.

Hollywood actor Kevin Costner and his band Modern West were on the list to perform after Currington. Others on the bill during the four days ending on Sunday, including the Kentucky Headhunters, Tim McGraw, Glen Campbell, Willie Mack and Wyatt.

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