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On Saturday (8-15), Kenny Chesney performed his only concert of 2014 at the beach area on the Gulf Coast known as Flora Bama straddling the Florida and Alabama state lines. It was a free concert Kenny threw for his fans, and one of the biggest major country concerts in the South during a summer concert season that has made headlines for the amount of trash, arrests, medical emergencies, alcohol incidents, interprise rent a car DUI s, rapes, and even death that has occurred at big mainstream country shows. Kenny Chesney s Flora Bama concert saw hundreds of medical calls due to heat-related issues on a day with no clouds interprise rent a car and 95-degree temperatures, but only one arrest was made in the crowd estimated interprise rent a car at nearly 40,000.
Ken Grimes, the City Administrator for Orange Beach told WKRG News 5 , It was a very calm crowd for the most part, and heat was a big issue. So yeah, medical high intense. On the police side, very very low. So we appreciate the crowd. I think next year or anytime in the future, hydration in this [is important], and hopefully temperatures will be a little interprise rent a car bit better. Heat index was high. But that was a the big issue, and I think traffic has moved well. I m just real proud.
Ken Grimes said that coordination for the event, especially when dealing with cross-state entities, was key. I m amazed with the staff. I appreciate all the staff with this. The impact is strong on the economic side. From a public safety side, all staff involved, both sides, both states, it was huge. Flora Bama s done a great job with the event operation group I think it worked great.
Kenny Chesney took stage a little after 5 PM, and finished just before 7:30. Fans were let in on a first come basis, and were given wrist bands for admittance. Even though interprise rent a car it was a free concert, with a lack of parking in the area, fans had to park elsewhere and take trolleys and buses to the location at a cost of $25. Nearly 400 boats also showed up along the coastline to take in the concert, and many fans floated in the surf to avoid the intense heat.
The event, entitled Flora-Bama-Jama is named for the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package Store. interprise rent a car It is a 50-year-old roadhouse that has become legendary over time, and immortalized in numerous country songs, including Kenny Chesney interprise rent a car s latest single. The concert was held on the beach right behind the Flora Bama lounge.
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The caveat to this, is that Trigger has said within interprise rent a car the past couple interprise rent a car of weeks that, as the weather cools down in the autumn months and many country artists turn southward for tour legs, so will the possible migration of undesirable incidents at large-scale country shows.
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sorry I didn t learn how to type at some fancy colege like you must have. and dont youttell me what happened at that concert wss sugarlands falt! I wont have it. No wonnew that storm was comin tthat big that fast. Not to mention that most bands wood have quit playing after some thing like that but sugarland remaines the bigest and most influential band in country music period.
I read somewhere that Blake Shelton interprise rent a car s concert in Atlantic City a few weeks ago drew over 60,000 people and police said it went off without a hitch. I think a few were treated interprise rent a car for dehydration interprise rent a car (it was on the beach), but that was it.
You act as if you ve missed the fact that that comment was posted for its comic effect! The truth is I couldn t give a monkey s toss about Blake Shelton . it could ve been 6 million people I wouldn t have been impressed!
I am local here on the line ( AL/ FL ) and I am surprised how well this concert came together. What we (locals) all thought was going to be a huge inconvenience turned out to only be a small inconvenience. I didn t personally attend the show simply because I m not a huge Kenny Chesney fan and the Flora-Bama song is downright interprise rent a car awful. It s my understanding that the few people that needed medical assistance were among those wearing boots and jeans. Yes, typical attire for most country music concerts .sun,sand,boots, jeans .bad combo. As for the one arrest, I have no clue what happened. interprise rent a car I did however see the preparations taking place all week and I have to give props to the Flora-Bama family for all their hard work! The staff and volunteers worked tirelessly around the clock to pull the whole thing off without a hitch .Success! I m so proud to call this great community my home! On a side note, I d like to thank you Trigger for your dedication to REAL country music. Especially your accurate coverage of the Wayne Mills case. Wayne was a dear friend and called this area and the Flora-Bama his home. So again, many thanks.
Alcohol interprise rent a car sales were limited to the Floa-Bama Bar ($10 cover was requires to enter even with concert wristband). There were no vendors set up or permits granted interprise rent a car for alcohol sales on the beach for the 2 1/2 hour concert. Thus, very limiting the availability of alcohol for the concert attendees.
The concert took place between 5 7 30 (most concert gates don t open till 7 30). Once again, limiting the time to consume pre-concert cocktails and keeping it hot enough to keep the crowd calm. I bet if the concert interprise rent a car went on till a traditional 11 pm, there would have been an increase interprise rent a car in arrests after it cooled off.
I DID mention that the concert happened between 5:00 and 7:30 PM. I DID mention that all the patrons were bused and trollied in so they couldn t tailgate. Sure, these things probably led to there being less arrests and problems, but I m not sure it is fair to organizers to somehow interprise rent a car discount their efforts because of that. I think they should be praised. This is a news story, and I don t think it is appropriate to interject my opinions about why there weren t as many problems as at other events. I am working on a much broader article about this topic where it will be more appropriate to speculate and offer opinions beside the facts.
There s been a growing sentiment on SCM that this is a north vs. south epidemic. I know you have come out with arguments against this kind of thinking, but look at the concerts you have chosen to cover. All concerts up north bad (including an article posted minutes after this one); the first one down south good. Comparing the Chesney CMT special to traditional concerts by Aldean, Bryan, and Urban is like comparing apples to oranges.
Knowing comparisons would have been made, it would have been more responsible of you to divulge the special circumstances interprise rent a car surrounding the Chesney concert. Buy not stating these facts, you are asserting your opinion.
I agree there has been a growing sentiment here about this being a Northern problem, but I have also criticized that idea, pointing out that the majority of country music s large concerts are routing north at the moment, and will come farther down south as the weather cools down. In fact I was criticized for saying that the reason they re not playing in the South at the moment is because it s too hot, and lo and behold, that was the biggest problem at the Kenny Chesney concert.
Trust me, I did not run this story because this concert happened in The South. I ran it because it is pertinent to the evolving thread interprise rent a car of how country music concerts are allegedly getting out of control. I personally believe there are many other factors behind it, and geography at little, if anything to do with it.
Trig, random thought; could it be because Kenny is one of the older mainstream country artists and has widened his appeal to the parrot head community that his audeience is starting to skew a tad older and this could be a factor in there being less issues at this gig ? I think the same could be said about Zac Brown. As a veteran of several statidum sized Buffett gigs there were zero problems and mass consumption of adult bevarges. However, a fairly older crowd. Becauise in a gulf coast beach setting I could see the parrot head side of his audience perhaps out numbering the younger mainstream country fans.Who knows ? Like I said more of a random thought.
I think the slightly older-skewing audience for Chesney could have had something interprise rent a car to do with it, but I also think the early start time and lack of a true designated interprise rent a car tailgate interprise rent a car area probably helped as well. Remember it was the Kenny Chesney concert in Pittsburgh last year that was the very first event to start off the media reports on this trend.
Looks like the Darien Center (site of the Luke Bryan concert) will be featuring concerts by Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert and Rascal Flatts in the next couple of weeks. The place looks to be between Buffalo and Rochester. It s the same general part of the state where the dirt track incident took place in which Tony Stewart s car struck and killed local driver Kevin Ward, Jr.
Trigger, you are incorrect. There were stands set up outside the Flora-Bama selling mixed drinks, fruity cocktails, interprise rent a car rum drinks and plenty of beer. Free water refills. What I didn t like was no soft drinks I am a diet coke addict! But they did have lemonaide. There were also food stands with great burgers. We had no problem getting drinks until closer to concert time and then it was just difficult walking through the crowd. I am a local and was amazed as to the number of event workers, emergency vehicles, police, interprise rent a car etc. Everything ran smoothly accept people in cars still got on the road after a week worth of warning and caused a traffic jam. Go figure.
Hosting this event actually cost the Flora-Bama close to a million dollars. The free concert was far from f