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Big Barrel Country Music Festival Makes Debut in Dover

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It was the first Big Barrel Country Music Festival this weekend in The Woodlands in Dover.

Some 30-thousand showed up to see such big names as Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton.

The Firefly Music Festival which just wrapped up last weekend pulled in that number during its first year.

The 2015 figure reached around 90-thousand.

Other headliners during the three day festival included Lynyrd Skynyrd on  Friday night as well as Shakey Graves and Hurray for the Riff Raff.

There was some rain and some shuttle delays at the end of the evening.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.