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Gerber: How you can get up close at the 2012 Riverbend Festival

Ever been backstage at a concert, watching the stars heading to the stage, hobnobbing with other VIPs?

The Chattanooga Times Free Press is offering you that chance.

As always, the newspaper will be all over Riverbend, Chattanooga’s nine-day music festival, which starts June 8.

We’ll be covering it stem to stern, both with daily stories in the paper as well as continuous updates on our website throughout the day and night. We’ll be shooting photos and video and writing every day about what’s coming up that day and the next, plus recapping the previous night’s acts.

We’ll also write stories about other interesting newsworthy events that occur at the festival. Past coverage during Riverbend has included stories about everything from violent rainstorms to a homicide that occurred a few blocks away only minutes after the 2003 Bessie Smith Strut.