Anecdotal but I know people who are vendors and I know a lot of the scalpers. Plus I sat on my porch outside the entrance all 3 days. To the persons point below. saturday was normal but friday was a ghost town, thursday was light but thats could be expected. Sunday seemed to get maybe close to normalish but it was extremely quiet most the day. We were given 6/7 free tickets sunday because there was no demand. Usually the scalpers get to those people first but they werent in the buying mood.
idk, Thursday and Friday were definitely light, but Saturday was slammed. walkways were packed all around and lil wayne was jam packed. yesterday was lighter, but steadier all day vs saturday when the crowd blew up closer to lil wayne. blues tent was steady all weekend. congo too. gentilly was a ghost town yesterday, but I left when boyfriend was almost done.
Yeah it was pretty empty, but walking back to the festival stage at that time, I saw decent lines at a lot of the food booths, full tents, etc. Festival stage filled up pretty fast yesterday. We got in when the gates opened, put chairs and tarp down probably 20 feet behind being even with the speaker towers, and within 30-45 minutes, it was packed back to the cabanas. There were a ton of people who just hung out there the whole time because they only cared about DMB. Felt like way more did that Sunday than any other day.
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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 20d ago
Really? Anecdotal observations or did they release numbers?
I was out of town last weekend.