Shopping for a raincoat at Dick's Sporting Goods near the festival, Carney, of northeast Maryland, blamed her friends who stuck her in the far corner of the tent. "I literally woke up soaking wet," complained Brooke Carney, who set up camp Wednesday night. View Gallery: On The Scene: Firefly Thursday "When I looked over and saw they got everybody jumping – I didn't know they had that much of a following." "It was unreal," he said after Cypher Clique wrapped up its well-received set. It was his first time seeing his son's act. Thomas's father, also named Mike, watched from the muddy Backyard Stage field with his other son, Marcus.
Jamal "Relay" James, Mike "Mic Anthony" Thomas and Daryl "D-Major" James performed an uptempo 30-minute set on the Backyard Stage – the biggest stage yet for a Delaware act to perform on at Firefly. The other Delaware band to play this year's festival, Newark's Fiance, will bring its indie pop goodness to Firefly on Friday at 12:45 p.m. After three strikeouts, the group got the call this year. Hip-hop trio Cypher Clique was one of the first groups to help kick off the music festival with a performance in the Woodlands shortly after the gates opened.įriends and a few thousand music fans from around the world crowded the stage to see the rappers.Ĭypher Clique applied to be one of the Delaware acts to play Firefly every year since the festival came to town in 2012. Once the gates opened fans beelined to catch the first acts, scheduled for 5:30. Unhappy ticket holders showed security the app on their phones, trying to convince them it was time to start the music and light the lights, but the giddy concertgoers had to wait another hour.
as zero hour for the festival, but in reality the gates were scheduled to open at 5 p.m. The official Firefly app was incorrectly set to 4 p.m. The sun was out and so were campers, carrying boxes of wine, cases of beer and bags from nearby stores to their sites, while Florence & the Machine blared from a campsite along Leipsic Road.Īt 4 p.m., a line had formed along Persimmon Tree Road, with ticket holders waiting to get onto festival grounds. View Gallery: Firefly Wet n' Wild Fashionīy 2:15 p.m.
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