Firefly Music Festival: Paul McCartney confirmed
It's a booking that would have been unfathomable before Firefly Music Festival came to Dover in 2012: Paul McCartney is going to perform a nearly three-hour show of Beatles hits in Delaware this summer.
Forty days after the first rumor surfaced online that McCartney would headline Firefly, it became official Wednesday when Sir Paul was named as the last addition to the fest's 110-act lineup.
McCartney will join Kings of Leon and the Killers as the headliners of the fourth edition of the Firefly – one of the fastest growing festivals in the country.
McCartney's official Facebook page posted that the performance – his first in Delaware – will be Friday, June 19. Firefly officials would not confirm the date.
The McCartney announcement came a week after the rest of the 2015 roster was announced.
Stephen Bailey, managing director of programming at The Grand in Wilmington, says it's hard to underestimate the impact of McCartney coming to Kent County.
"Delaware was off limits for Paul McCartney. It's not that he didn't want to come here, but we didn't have a big enough place to house a personality, a legend, a force of nature like that," Bailey says. "He's a Beatle. A Beatle is coming to Delaware. It's really, really cool."
By: Ryan Cormier
Source: Delaware Online
