NASHVILLE, Tenn - The Ink N Iron Festival has filed for bankruptcy, and contractors said they have yet to be paid for their services.
After a rough start in Nashville last month, the Ink N Iron festival swore it would fix the troubles that plagued its debut.
Yet, NewsChannel 5 has learned the festival has filed for bankruptcy and may never come back.
Emails from a bankruptcy attorney to a contractor for the festival said the group has no money.
Dennis Connelly is a bankruptcy attorney out of Newport Beach, CA.
In an email, he explained to a contractor the Ink N Iron festival "has run out of funds to pay its bills due to an extreme lack of attendance. There are no plans to come back to the SoCal market or any other market as the festival is bankrupt."
Several contractors, like Adam Prohaska who owns Atlas Worldwide Transportation, said they were never paid and are out tens of thousands of dollars.
"I don't understand how they can do 13 years of a show in California, and claim that they have no money to pay because one show went bad for them," Prohaska said by phone from California.
NewsChannel 5 has reached out to Connelly for comment but have not received a response.
For 13 years, the Ink N Iron festival operated out of Long Beach, California.
A festival spokesman told NewsChannel 5 in August that the city of Nashville lured it from the West Coast to Music City.
