Firefly Music Festival

Firefly Music Festival is a music festival produced by Red Frog Events alongside Goldenvoice, that was first held on July 20–22, 2012, in Dover, Delaware. Firefly takes place in The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, a 105-acre (42 ha) festival ground, over the span of four days. Many nationally known musical acts have performed at the festival, with over 100 performances held over the course of the festival in 2016. The festival producers have been working together to establish the event at the current venue with the hopes of having "an open-air festival on the East Coast with plenty of outdoor camping". The festival includes seven stages; The Porch Stage, The Lawn Stage, The Backyard Stage, the Treehouse, The Coffee House, The Pavilion and The Firefly Stage. Firefly offers three different passes options; general admission, VIP, and Super VIP.

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2012	Edit The headliners for the 2012 festival included Jack White, The Killers, and The Black Keys. Each performer played as the final act for a separate night of the festival on The Firefly Stage, the largest stage at the event. Other notable acts included Death Cab for Cutie, John Legend, Bassnectar, Modest Mouse, and The Flaming Lips. Although Passion Pit was listed as a musical act for 2012, their performance was cancelled due to lead singer Michael Angelakos seeking ongoing treatment for bipolar disorder. Yeasayer was chosen as the replacement for Passion Pit's performance.

The 2012 schedule listed in order from latest performance in the day to earliest:

Friday, July 20 Jack White, Bassnectar, Silversun Pickups, Walk the Moon, John Legend, OK Go, Mayer Hawthorne & the Country, The Wallflowers, Matt Costa, Heartless Bastards, Blind Pilot, Turf War Saturday, July 21 The Killers, Lupe Fiasco, Yeasayer, Trampled by Turtles, Modest Mouse, CAKE, Chiddy Bang, Young the Giant, Graffiti6, Grouplove, The Knocks, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Cults, Poliça, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaries, The Felice Brothers, Kids These Days, Ra Ra Riot, Imagine Dragons, Moon Taxi Sunday, July 22 The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Allen Stone, Death Cab for Cutie, Tinie Tempah, Fitz and The Tantrums, Cold War Kids, Mariachi El Bronx, Awolnation, Bombay Bicycle Club, Reptar, The Head and the Heart, Penguin Prison, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Lower Case Blues 2013	Edit The headliners for the 2013 festival included Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.[4][5] Other notable acts included Vampire Weekend, Foster the People, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Avett Brothers, Calvin Harris, and Passion Pit.

Imagine Dragons was scheduled to be the only returning musical act between the 2012 and 2013 Firefly Music Festival. However, due to a scheduling conflict they had to cancel their performance and were replaced by Jim James.[6] The Lumineers were also scheduled to perform, but cancelled for medical reasons. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite replaced them in the lineup.

The 2013 schedule (artists listed from earliest to latest set times):

Friday, June 21 Firefly Main Stage: The Neighbourhood, Django Django, Dr. Dog, The Avett Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers The Lawn: Leagues, Wild Belle, Atlas Genius, Ellie Goulding, Calvin Harris The Backyard: JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Twenty One Pilots, The Joy Formidable, Public Enemy, Grizzly Bear, Krewella The Porch: The Spinto Band, Conner Youngblood, Action Bronson, Foxygen, Dragonette, Schoolboy Q, Dan Deacon Saturday, June 22 Firefly Main Stage: Japandroids, Jim James, Alabama Shakes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers The Lawn: Kopecky Family Band, ZZ Ward, Kendrick Lamar, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, MGMT The Backyard: Young Empires, Blondfire, He's My Brother She's My Sister, A Silent Film, Chvrches, Youngblood Hawke, Azealia Banks, Big Gigantic The Porch: Imaginary Cities, Hey Marseilles, St. Lucia, Lord Huron, Crystal Fighters, Krewella, The White Panda Sunday, June 23 Firefly Main Stage: The Chevin, LP, Ben Harper, Passion Pit, Foster the People The Lawn: Selah Sue, Haim, Matt & Kim, Dispatch, Vampire Weekend The Backyard: Delta Rae, The Apache Relay, The Last Bison, Kishi Bashi, Capital Cities, The Walkmen, Zedd The Porch: The Last Royals, Trails and Ways, Wheeler Brothers, Robert DeLong, Toro y Moi, Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra 2014	Edit On January 14, 2014 the lineup for 2014 was announced via the official Firefly YouTube channel. The headliners for 2014 included Outkast, Foo Fighters, and Jack Johnson with other notable acts Imagine Dragons, Beck, The Lumineers, Pretty Lights, Arctic Monkeys, Weezer and Broken Bells. Girl Talk, Twenty One Pilots, and Imagine Dragons returned for their second year performing at the festival. The 2014 schedule (artists listed from earliest to latest set times):

Thursday, June 19 "The Backyard:" Andrew Belle, Kodaline, Phosphorescent, Local Natives "The Lawn:" Parade of Lights, Courtney Barnett, Amos Lee "The Forest:" John & Jacob, Aer, Gregory Alan Isakov, San Fermin, Rac Friday, June 20 "Firefly Main Stage:" Kongos, Bleachers, Iron and Wine, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters "The Backyard:" Hunter Hunted, Ghost Beach, Sky Ferreira, Portugal the Man, Young the Giant, Girl Talk "The Lawn:" Basic Vacation, New Politics, American Authors, Chance the Rapper, Band of Horses "The Porch:" The Secret Sisters, Vic Mensa, The Mowglis, Airborne Toxic Event, A-Trak, White Denim, Cash Cash "The Forest:" Magic Man, Bronze Radio Return, Shakey Graves, The Jezabels, Son Lux "The Coffee House:" Lily Mae, Cruiser, Gregory Alan Isakov, High Highs, American Authors, Iron and Wine "The Big Break:" Mean Lady, Saints of Valory, Step Rockets, Christian Porter Saturday, June 21 "Firefly Main Stage:" Twenty One Pilots, Third Eye Blind, Grouplove, Imagine Dragons, Outkast "The Backyard:" Bad Things, Smallpools, MS MR, Cage the Elephant, Tegan and Sara, Pretty Lights "The Lawn:" The Ceremonies, Geographer, Lucius, Kaiser Chiefs, Tune-Yards, Beck "The Porch:" Unlikely Candidates, Royal Teeth, Goldroom, Walk Off the Earth, Sleigh Bells, The White Panda "The Forest:" The Weeks, The Wild Feathers, Wild Child, Boy & Bear, Johnnyswim, X Ambassadors "The Coffee House:" Wheeland Brothers, Speak, The Colourist, The Wild Feathers, Smallpools, Grouplove "The Big Break:" New Sweden, Holychild, Kite String Tangle, Sleeper Agent, Stop Light Observations Sunday, June 22 "Firefly Main Stage:" Dan Croll, City and Colour, Weezer, The Lumineers, Jack Johnson "The Backyard:" Nonono, Jake Bugg, Ziggy Marley, Phantogram, Big Gigantic "The Lawn:" Vance Joy, The Colourist, A Great Big World, Washed Out, Broken Bells, Childish Gambino "The Porch:" Little Comets, Wild Cub, G-Eazy, Martin Garrix "The Forest:" Misterwives, Haerts, Sir Sly, Cherub "The Coffee House:" Casey Alvarez, Kawehi, Caroline Glaser, Misterwives, Jake Bugg "The Big Break:" The Griswolds, Gemini Club, Little Daylight, Breach the Summit 2015	Edit On February 17, 2015 the 2015 lineup was announced via the official Firefly YouTube channel. The headliners for 2015 included Paul McCartney, Kings Of Leon and The Killers. The schedule of performances and locations were released on a date closer to the festival. Due to a severe thunderstorm on Saturday night of the 2015 festival, Kings of Leon had to cancel their performance and the festival grounds were temporarily evacuated. Charli XCX also had to cancel her Thursday performance, citing "personal reasons" in a statement.

The full alphabetical 2015 lineup was as follows:

Alison Wonderland Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness AWOLNATION BØRNS Bad Suns Bahamas Bastille Bear Hands Benjamin Booker Betty Who Big Data BRONCHO Broods Cage the Elephant Cardiknox Cathedrals Charli XCX Cheerleader Chiddy Bang Citizen Cope Clean Bandit Client Liaison Cold War Kids Colony House Craze Cypher Clique Dirty Heads Dizzy Wright DJ Mustard DJ Rene[7] Echosmith Elliphant Empire of the Sun Falls Fences Fiance Filibusta Foster the People Gary Clark Jr. Generationals Glass Animals Goshfather & Jinco Grizfolk Halsey Hey Rosetta! How to Dress Well Hozier Intergalatix Jack Novak Jayceeoh Joe Pug Jon Bellion Jungle Kid Cudi Kill Them with Colour Kings of Leon (CANCELLED) Kingsize Knox Hamilton Kygo Le1f Lettuce Linus Young Lizzo Logic Manchester Orchestra Manila Killa Marian Hill Matoma Matt & Kim Max Frost Milo Greene Modest Mouse Morrissey Mother Mother Nick Catchdubs Night Terrors of 1927 Odesza Panama Wedding Pat Premier[7] Paul McCartney PHOX Prinze George Raury RJD2 Run the Jewels Rustie Ryn Weaver Saif Nabil Hassan Shaun Frank Skylar Spence Snakehips SNBRN Snoop Dogg Solidisco Spoon Steve Aoki Sturgill Simpson Styles&Complete Sublime with Rome Sweater Beats Sylvan Esso The Chainsmokers The Griswolds The Hunts The Killers The Kooks The Preatures The White Panda The Wind and the Wave Tove Lo Twin Peaks Tycho Vacationer VÉRITÉ Vindata Walk the Moon Whyel Wild Party Young Rising Sons Zedd Zella Day Zola Jesus 2016	Edit The 2016 lineup was released on November 18, 2015. Headliners included Mumford and Sons, Kings of Leon, Florence and the Machine, and deadmau5. Two Door Cinema Club served as the Thursday night headliner.

The official alphabetical 2016 lineup was as follows:

ASAP Rocky AlunaGeorge AMFMS Arkells Atlas Genius Blink-182 Boy and Bear CHVRCHES Catfish and the Bottlemen Chairlift Circa Waves Civil Twilight DRAM Deadmau5 Death Cab For Cutie Disclosure Earth Wind & Fire Elle King Ellie Goulding Elliot Root Fetty Wap Fitz and the Tantrums Flogging Molly Florence and the Machine Gallant Goldlink Grouplove Guster Hayden James Hippie Sabotage Hollis Brown Jai Wolf Jeremy Loops Jack Garratt Kaleo (they never performed at the festival; just on lineup) Kings of Leon Laura Stevenson Ludacris M83 Mail the Horse Major and the Monbacks Major Lazer Mike Rocket Moon Taxi Motel Radio Mumford and Sons MØ Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Of Monsters and Men Oh Wonder Parson James Pell Pepper Porter Robinson Quilt Robert DeLong Saint Motel Son Little St. Lucia Sun Club Swim Deep Tame Impala Tchami The 1975 The Dirty Dishes The Lonely Biscuits The Moth and the Flame (added to lineup late) The Neighbourhood The Staves The Struts The White Panda The Wombats Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Twin Limb Two Door Cinema Club Tyler Boone Vince Staples Wet 2017	Edit Headliners included The Weeknd, Muse, Twenty One Pilots, Chance the Rapper and Bob Dylan. Glass Animals served as the Thursday night headliner.

The official alphabetized 2017 lineup was as follows:

888 AFI Alan Walker Alex Wiley Andy Frasco & the U.N. Animal Years Anna Lunoe Anna Shoemaker ARIZONA Armani Lee Astro 8000 Ayokay Banks Barns Courtney Bencoolen Benny Benassi Big Wild Bishop Briggs Bleachers Blossoms Bob Dylan and His Band Bob Moses Busta Rhymes Capital Cities Carverton Cashmere Cat Chance The Rapper Chill Moody Cold Roses Crywolf CVBZ Daya Dead Man Fall Deal Casino Dillon Francis DJ Jazzy Jeff Dreamers Dude Ranch & The Girl At the Rock Show Eden Elohim Fickle Friends Fletcher Flume Foreign Air Francis & The Lights Franz Ferdinand Future Generations Galantis Glass Animals Goody Grace Gryffin Hamilton Leithauser Hamish Anderson Handsome Ghost Hardwork Movement HDBEENDOPE Illenium Ill Fated Natives Jacob Banks James TW Jared & The Mill Joie Kathos Jonas Blue Judah & the Lion K.Flay Kaiydo Kaleo Kesha Kevin Garrett Lawrence Lewis Del Mar Lil Dicky Louie Louie Luke O'Brien Maggie Rogers (singer) MAGIC GIANT Matoma Meg Mac Michael Blume Miike Snow Miles Chancellor Mir Fontane Misterwives Mondo Cozmo Muna MUSE Nahko and Medicine For The People NAWAS New Madrid NF (rapper) O.A.R. OddKidOut OK GO OWEL Pardison Fontaine Phantogram Quinn XCII Quitehype Rainbow Kitten Surprise Roadkill Ghost Choir Rozes Saint Wknd Salt Cathedral Sam Feldt Savoir Adore Secret Weapons Shaed Shizz Lo Short Sleeve Heart Sir Sly Sir The Baptist Slushii Snakehips Sofi Tukker Spiritual Rez Steve James Stick Figure Sub-Radio Sunflower Bean T-Pain Taylor Bennett The Lawsuits The Naked and Famous The Orphan The Poet The Shins The Social Animals The Steppin Stones The Strumbellas The Weeknd The White Panda Thirty Seconds To Mars Tory Lanez Trio Twenty One Pilots Vita and the Woolf Wale Walker Lukens Warm Brew Weezer Wilderado Win and Woo Young Bombs 2018	Edit The 2018 Firefly Music Festival continued to be a four day event starting June 14 and lasting through June 17 with headliners that included; Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Amillion the Poet, SZA, Martin Garrix, and Justin Caruso. [8]
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Crowd surfing at the finale of a Blink-182 concert Activities	Edit

In addition to musical acts, The Firefly Music Festival offers other activities. An arcade tent is set up, which houses arcade and video games. Attendees can design their own pair of Toms Shoes and have an artist paint the design. With the purchase of the custom pair of shoes, an additional pair of Toms is sent to a child in need, through the Toms One For One Movement program. The Hammock Hangout is a shaded area in which you can sit or lay down in a hammock. The Pathway is a wooded path that connects the two "halves" of the festival. Each year, The Pathway has a theme, and as of the 2017 festival, fans get to choose what that happens to be.

The Thicket is another attraction at Firefly, where attendees can participate in a silent rave. For everyone with headphones on, however; the Thicket music filled, with DJs playing music that can only be heard through the headphones. The Coffee House offers a multiple cafe-style vendors, and music performances throughout the day.

In its first year, Firefly featured hot air balloon rides over The Woodlands. The rides are no longer offered to Festival goers, but the hot air balloon remains as an iconic symbol of Firefly.[9]

Firefly partners with Delaware's Dogfish Head Brewery to have The Brewery, an onsite beer bar. The bar serves Firefly Ale, a microbrew Dogfish Head Pale Ale makes specifically for the festival.

Firefly also offers various charging stations, where attendees can charge electronic devices.

Starting in February 2015, there is also an annual unofficial weekend long fan get together in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Called Winterfly, the event is un-associated with Goldenvoice or Red Frog Events, but features live music, and group activities such as a private tour of the Dogfishhead Brewery and charitable auctions that benefit local music programs.

Lodging	Edit

A number of lodging options exist at the festival. Attendees of the festival can choose to camp in a tent or RV in what Firefly calls The Grove. Additionally, attendees can choose "glamping", a portmanteau of the words "glamorous" and "camping". Some glamping options provide private, air-conditioned tents, beds with sheets, access to private and air-conditioned showers and bathrooms, access to a private food lounge, as well as food and snack vouchers for inside the festival.

After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, event security worked with the Dover Police Department, Delaware State Police, DelDOT and the Kent County Department of Safety to create security plans. Walk through metal-detectors were installed at points of entry, with bomb detection dogs also posted at each entry.[10]

Accolades	Edit

"In its debut year, Firefly was surprisingly devoid of on-site hiccups. Organized by Red Frog Events...Firefly rolled on with the precision of an event many years in the making." - Billboard[11]

"It’s about damn time the East Coast had a great music festival." - Emily Sheetz for MusicUnderFire[12]

"I think this festival is special because of the combination of the forest setting, the great lineup, and the overall vibe of the festival. It was a really great place to see music with all of the new friends you made." - TheFestivalGuy.com[13]

"Save for some first-year jitters, the inaugural edition of Firefly was a highly promising one." - Ben Kaye for Consequence of Sound[14]

Environmentalism	Edit

Firefly Music Festival promotes itself as a sustainable and environmentally friendly festival, with its program Sustainable Beats. A part of this program includes carbon footprint offsetting with ticket purchases. Attendees of the festival have the option of donating to the carbon footprint offsetting program when purchasing their tickets online, which allows each attendee to offset 440 pounds of carbon dioxide. The festival matches each of these donations up until the festival is completely carbon neutral. In 2012, this program offset over 1.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide.[15] Additionally, water refill stations are found throughout The Woodlands, reusable water bottles are sold at the concert and encouraged to concert attendees, and the festival participates in a waste diversion program to reduce the amount of trash from the festival that ends up in a landfill.[15]

Partners	Edit

Firefly and Red Frog Events have partnered with St. Jude's Music Gives to St. Jude Kids program to "enlist artists large and small, emerging and established, to join St. Jude in the fight against childhood cancer."[16] This program includes having a tent for donations at the event, having meet-and-greet events with various performers at the concert, and other ways of fundraising for the program. In 2012, Firefly attendees raised over $4.6 million for Music Gives to St. Jude Kids.[16] In addition, Firefly partners with Bud Light, Jack Daniel's, Tito's Vodka, StubHub, AXS TV, Cupcake Vineyards, Alex and Ani, Fye, Dogfish Head, Camelback, El Jimador, and Garnier. As of 2015, Sirius XM's Alt Nation has broadcast multiple Firefly performances throughout the festival.