Akon’s show was cancelled on Thursday after the stage he was supposed to perform on suddenly collapsed injuring three people and stalling the highly anticipated Fall Band Party before it began.

Akon band members and the opening artist Ray Lavender had just left the stage after performing sound checks when one of the outdoor stage’s canopies fell causing the stage to crash and injure three of the workers assigned to build the stage at Emory's Clairmont Campus off Clairmont Road, a spokesperson for the school said. The three men were rushed to a local hospital to be examined, but no details regarding their condition were available at the time of the announcement.

Akon, whose hits include “Don't Matter,” “I Wanna Love You” with Snoop Dogg and “Smack That” with Eminem, was not present at the time of the accident.

“It's probable that the weight of the lighting may have contributed to the canopy falling,” DeKalb County Fire Capt. Eric Jackson told Atlanta's WXIA-TV. “In the midst of trying to prepare to get everything ready—specifically to perform a sound check, is when the canopy that is on this temporary stage collapsed.”

The police arrived shortly after the incident occurred at about 5:15 p.m. and sealed off the area.

“There's still a lot of equipment out there, and because of the instability of the structure of the stage and the collapse of the awning, we did not want to start disassembling that before our inspectors as well as the inspectors from Emory had a chance to take a look at that and determine just how it needed to be brought down,” Jackson said.

It was not known Thursday night if the highly anticipated show, sponsored by the Student Programming Council, would be rescheduled.

“We increased the budget and felt like we should go for something big,” event chair Jaclyn Freeman told the Emory Wheel, the university's main newspaper, last week. “It seems like Akon has been received well from a diverse group of students.”

“Akon is a big act. It sells itself. As far as event planning goes, we have it under control,” Freeman added.