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Here’s everything you need to know about Riverbend 2016

ADMISSION WRISTBANDS

* General admission: Your best deal is a general-admission wristband, which allows access to the festival every night (except the Bessie Smith Strut on Monday, June 13; that’s a separate $10). Today, June 9, is the last day to buy them at a discount. They’re available through midnight for $41 each at local Kangaroo/Circle K stores. During the festival, general-admission wristbands will only be available at the gates and will cost $55 each. Children 10 and younger get in free.

* Daily admission: These wristbands, available at the gate, are good for one night only and cost $25 ($15 for military personnel and seniors 60 and older).

* Refunds: Not going to happen, even if the act you want to see cancels or the show gets rained out.

* Coming and going: Wristbands will be scanned when you enter and when you leave. Failure to scan out could prevent your return into the festival.