Warped Tour attendance officially pegged at 8,880
From Staff
Publication Date: 07/15/08
The official count is in -- 8,800 concert-goers packed into the St. Johns County Fairgrounds on July 13 for the Vans Warped Tour 2008.
Ryan Dettra, general manager of the St. Johns County Fairgrounds and the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, said 6,000 tickets were sold in advance, and 2,800 more were sold at the gates throughout the day-long music festival.
The Vans Warped Tour, in its 14th year, is a summer music and extreme sports festival that stops in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities from June through August. St. Augustine was the 17th stop on this summer's tour.
Dettra also said that everyone in the county had a good response to what was the biggest event held at the revamped fairgrounds so far. He hopes to bring the tour back next summer.
"Other than the parking issue, everything went smoothly," Dettra said, speaking of the long lines of traffic on State Road 207 leading to the festival.
Some fans waited an hour and a half or more to get in the parking lot of the fairgrounds.
Renovations on the St. Johns County Fairgrounds were completed in 2007 -- offering a covered arena, more seating, restrooms and showers, and other amenities. The facility is owned and operated by the county.
The fairgrounds are located in Elkton, about seven miles from St. Augustine on State Road 207.
For information about the Vans Warped Tour, go to www.warpedtour.com. For more about the St. Johns County Fairgrounds, go to www.sjcfl.us/fairgrounds.
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