A music festival headlined by Bif Naked in the picturesque B.C. village of Tahsis is ready to rock after a judge dismissed a conflict of interest complaint against the hamlet's mayor.

Fourteen residents of the Vancouver Island enclave filed a petition at B.C. Supreme Court to cancel a council decision allowing the Pillage at the Village festival to take place on August 13 and 14.

They argued that there was a conflict of interest when Mayor Corrine Dahling voted in favour of the event, because the organizer is her former daughter-in-law and the mother of her granddaughter, according to the judgment dismissing the petition.

Judge Marion Allan ruled that Dahling did not have a conflict of interest because she has no personal financial stake in the festival.

"Any potential indirect pecuniary interest the Mayor could have had is so remote that it could not reasonably be perceived to have influenced her judgment," Allan wrote.

The two-day festival is organized by Nanaimo resident Amber McGrath, who told ctvbc.ca that she was relieved to see the petition dismissed and her concert cleared.

"Thank goodness we won, I'm just ecstatic about it," she said.

McGrath said she expected some opposition to the idea of a music festival -- Pillage at the Village was originally conceived as a heavy metal event -- but was surprised when her relationship with Dahling became the issue.

"She's my ex-mother-in-law, and you know what they say about mothers-in-law. We're not that bonded, to be honest," McGrath said.

"We don't talk much. We don't have that much in common."

Dahling disclosed her relationship with McGrath before village council decided to host the festival in a 3-2 vote on May 4.

The festival features homegrown B.C. acts like Black Betty, Armchair Cynics and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on the site of the town's former lumber mill.

McGrath said ticket sales have lagged while the petition made its way through the court, but she expects sales to increase now that the festival is a sure thing.

"They're a little bit slow because of the courts. We're hoping that they're going to pick up."

Tahsis is a 65-kilometre drive west from Gold River along a road that is unpaved in some sections.

The tiny community on Nootka Sound has hit hard times since its lumber mill closed in 2001. In boom times, more than 3,000 people lived in the village, but only about 300 now call Tahsis home.