Organizers for the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival are making some changes for its second day after traffic on Interstate 71 crawled to a standstill on May 8.
Parking for the festival opened at 7:30 a.m. Friday, May 9, and organizers have put out more portable toilets in the parking lot, according to a Sonic Temple Facebook post.
Organizers recommend attendees arrive early to avoid construction and a graduation taking place at the Ohio Expo Center from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Interstate 71 from Downtown all the way to Cleveland Avenue was significantly congested May 8 as festivalgoers made their way to Historic Crew Stadium for the first day of the festival.
Dispatch photographer Adam Cairns said the right lane was completely stopped for at least a mile north of the fairgrounds, The Dispatch previously reported.
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Metallica, the legendary rock band that is headlining Sonic Temple on Friday and Sunday, caused a small earthquake in Virginia on May 7, according to Fox Weather.
The band’s concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia, attracted around 60,000 concertgoers. When Metallica played their hit „Enter Sandman,“ which is also a frequent entrance song for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team, the crowd’s jumping and headbanging created ground tremors, according to a seismograph near the stadium.
The earthquake was too minor to register on the Richter scale or be assigned a rating, according to Fox Weather.
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