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Chen Childish Gambino performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 16/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 17/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Phantogram performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 18/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 19/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Third Eye Blind performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 20/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 21/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen The Lumineers perform at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 22/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 23/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Broken Bells performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 24/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 25/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Imagine Dragons performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 26/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 27/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen OutKast performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 28/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 29/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Weezer performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 30/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 31/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Cage the Elephant performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 32/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 33/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Grouplove performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 34/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 35/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Beck performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 36/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 37/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Haerts performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 38/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 39/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Childish Gambino performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 40/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 41/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen MS MR performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 42/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 43/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Third Eye Blind performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 44/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 45/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Phantogram performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 46/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 47/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen The Lumineers perform at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 48/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 49/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen OutKast performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 50/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 51/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Cage the Elephant performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 52/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 53/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Tegan and Sara perform at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 54/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 55/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Weezer performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 56/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Imagine Dragons performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 57/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 58/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Grouplove performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 59/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 60/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Broken Bells performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 61/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Phantogram performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 62/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 63/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Beck performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 64/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen OutKast performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 65/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 66/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen The Lumineers perform at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 67/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 68/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Childish Gambino performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 69/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 70/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Weezer performed at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 22, 2014. 71/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 21, 2014. 72/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Imagine Dragons performs at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, on June 21, 2014. 73/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen Music fans enjoy the festivities at the 2014 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Deleware, on June 22, 2014. 74/75 Photograph: Michael J. Chen The 2014 Firefly Music Festival took place June 19–22, 2014 in Dover, Deleware. 75/75
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Time Out cranked up its
best road-trip songs and embarked on a
weekend getaway down to Dover, Delaware, for the third installment of the East Coast’s answer to
Coachella , Bonnaroo and
Lollapalooza : the Firefly Music Festival. As always, the good vibes were abundant at the Woodlands and they lasted even longer this year, as Firefly tacked on a Thursday teaser to the festivities. We’ve been to
music festivals across the land and, to our recollection, we’ve never seen more raucous sing-alongs and intrepid crowd surfers anywhere else.
The reason for the nonstop merriment: Firefly’s truly killer lineup that, in our estimation, one-ups its more established festival breathren in Indio, California; Manchester, Tennessee; and Chicago. Sure, most fests are being treated to the glorious reunion of Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast—hey ya!—but none are supplementing the lineup with a triumphant turn-of-the-millennium triumvirate of Beck, Weezer and the Foo Fighters (if we want to make it a quartet, Third Eye Blind was on the bill too, reacquainting us with its “Semi-Charmed Life”). Add to the mix a barrage of electric performances from Cage the Elephant, Twenty One Pilots, Pretty Lights, Childish Gambino, Phantogram and Grouplove—and you’ve got yourself quite a stew.
The only downside: dust. Everywhere. But, hey, that’s what happens when you’ve got 80,000 strong dancing in a twiggy forest. We can’t wait to see how Firefly raises the game next year, and we’ll be sure to bring extra bandannas.
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