A Seminole Halloween Concert Moved to a Country Club Hours Before a Judge Barred Concerts at the Couple's Home

SEMINOLE - The Halloween weekend bash that stirred up this Pinellas County city did not exactly get cancelled. It moved. Hours before Circuit Judge Evan G. Frayman issued a temporary injunction on October 30 barring Scott and Judy McGehee from holding live music events at their Baywood Park Drive home, photographs and video Scott McGehee posted on Facebook show at least one concert going ahead at nearby Seminole Lake Country Club, with stage lighting, spectators in lawn chairs and a donation station benefiting Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.

The injunction, which also orders the couple to stop unpermitted construction and remains in effect until further court order, came after the city filed suit on October 29 - before the City Council had formally approved bringing it. City Attorney Jay Daigneault told the Pinellas Current he consulted council members individually that day, and that the filing will be put to the council for ratification at its next business meeting. The judge granted the request without a hearing at which the McGehees could contest the allegations, finding immediate harm could occur first; the city's complaint said using the home as a concert venue violated residential zoning and cited unpermitted electrical work, fire hazards and Halloween traffic.

The dispute reached the council on October 27, when a former council member who lives nearby raised traffic, parking and alcohol concerns for trick-or-treaters and said earlier events at the property had drawn as many as 200 people. McGehee, for his part, blamed a neighbor in his Facebook post, writing that she 'spread a number of rumors that the city had to check out,' and told followers: 'Nothing has really changed except for the scenery.' At the house itself, Halloween night stayed quiet: Sheriff's Office records show three directed patrols, with no ordinance violations and no disturbance documented.