As many as 10,000 additional people without tickets to the massive two-day concert are expected to visit Troy this weekend for the downtown street fair, meaning 40,000 music lovers in all are expected to descend on Troy this weekend.
The city’s population was 25,058 at the 2010 United States Census.
Tickets to the fair are $5 a day. It starts Thursday at 6 p.m. Gates to Troy Memorial Stadium, where the concert will be held, opens at 4 p.m.
Music lovers are expected to contribute $20 million to the local economy, and that does not include the cost of equipment and supplies concert planners and vendors have purchased, Manovich said. About 4,500 people will be employed by the festival, and 70 local groups will volunteer 11,000 additional hours. Organizers will pay those groups a stipend.
Manovich said concert organizers made a commitment to use local businesses.
“It is just huge,” she said. “They are buying and renting that stuff here locally.”
Concert organizers earlier this month released a new batch of 2,500 tickets to Mumford and Sons previously sold out music festival.
The $109 tickets are on sale at www.gentlemenoftheroad.com.
Tickets have no additional service fees or charges, according to a news release.
Manovich said some fans are also selling tickets they can not use on the tour's Facebook page. Click here for the page.
Tickets took mere hours to sell out in February, making the English folk rock band’s two-day festival one of the hottest shows in the region this summer.
Fans are expected from 48 states.
Each ticket will include a commemorative “Gentlemen of the Road Stopover” passport.
Three-night camping passes start at $40 per person and can be purchased along with tickets.
Manovich said that about 10,000 people will camp out near the river or in park space.
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