Widespread Panic draws a crowd as they perform on the Coke Stage.Riverbend 2014June 6-14 • 21st Century Waterfront, Chattanooga, TNView in depth coverage
Riverbend organizers say the June 8 headlining performance by Georgia jam rockers Widespread Panic set a festival record for one-day wristband sales.
Single-use wristbands for the festival, which ran June 6 through Saturday, were available at the gates for $26.
Talent and production coordinator Joe “Dixie” Fuller said Monday he hadn’t received finalized attendance figures for this year’s festival, which marked the debut of a new scannable wristband admission system to replace the traditional plastic pins. Even anecdotally, however, Fuller said there was no doubt the Widespread Panic show was the best-attended night of the last two years.
“We knew from all the phone calls we got from all over the country that it was going to be big,” he said. “People were calling and texting and emailing and going, ‘You’re sure you’re not going to sell out?’