Firefly Concert Scheduled for 16 June

Firefly is a huge concert that happens over a certain amount of days with multiple performers. This year, Firefly will take place at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. It will run from 16 June 2016 (time to be determined) until 19 June 2016.

There will be one hundred and eleven different bands, trap artists, and singers performing at Firefly in 2016. Some familiar artists include, Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon, Florence and the Machine, Ellie Goulding, Blink-182, A$AP Rocky, Major Lazer, The 1975, Of Monsters And Men, Ludacris, Fetty Wap, and Hippie Sabotage. There will also be many other less popular performers appearing at Firefly.

On 16 June 2016, ticket sellers will be offering four-day passes. Every day after that, they will only be offering the passes for the day that a person arrives at the concert. Four-Day passes on Ticketcity.com begin at $282 per pass. The general admissions tickets begin at $318 per ticket, also on Ticketcity.com.

Delaware’s Firefly Music Festival was first held in July of 2012. It was the very first concert venture produced by Red Frog Events. This is a Chicago-based company that has been hosting races in many different cities all over the U.S.

Firefly Music Festival Director Greg Bostrom said Dover was one of 60 locations originally considered for the event. Red Frog Events officials visited nine locations and chose Dover for a variety of mostly logistical reasons – its location compared to large East Coast cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and the area’s ability to handle large crowds. Company officials were also happy with the speedway staff already in place as well as the availability of nearby hotels.

In 2012, its first year, Firefly Music Festival was a three-day event, held July 20, 21, and 22. Three-day passes cost $178. The Killers, The Black Keys, and Jack White headlined a total of 48 acts that included Death Cab for Cutie, John Legend, and The Flaming Lips. An up-and-coming band called Imagine Dragons was one of the lower-billed groups that performed on one of the Festival’s four stages. Approximately 30,000 fans attended. In 2013 the crowd almost doubled in size to 65,000 fans.

Three years later, Red Frog Events expects a larger crowd with one hundred and eleven artists performing June 16-19.