Firefly Music Festival is shaping up to be a much bigger event in Dover from June 21 to 23.
Buzz over last year’s event appeared to trigger a buying panic for tickets, with ticket sales matching last year’s total attendance in an hour or so.
The festival had estimated attendance of 30,000 last year.
Larger attendance would fill up hotel rooms in central Delaware and perhaps beyond.
The volume of traffic overloaded Amazon ticket servers and led to frantic and angry posts on the festival’s website.
By Friday night, some Firefly fans were taking shots at the critics on Facebook.
The problems were resolved, but discount tickets are gone and only the highest priced general admission and VIP passes remained as of Friday night.
Another glitch popped up when the festival announced that one well-known band, Imagine Dragons, could not appear, due to a scheduling conflict. The group will be replaced by Jim James, of the band My Morning Jacket.
The festival issued the following on Facebook on Friday night:
”Hey Firefly Fans. We know many of you experienced some delays and frustrations during the first couple ticket buying hours yesterday and we apologize for this. That’s not how we want any part of your Firefly experience to be. We’re always working to ensure you have a great experience leading up to, during and after your weekend at The Woodlands. We can’t thank you enough for your support and patience as we got through some growing pains yesterday! It was truly an epic day in Firefly history.”
Total ticket sales numbers so far this year were not released.
Click this link for the earlier story that includes a link to the full line-up.
