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Find out how many tickets have sold for Stars and Thunder

People will get the 'full festival experience'

With less than a week before the 2018 Stars and Thunder, about 7,000 tickets have been sold for the eight-day music festival.

At Tuesday’s council meeting, CAO Dave Landers told council that last week close to 1,000 tickets were sold for the festival, which kicks off Sunday, June 24 and caps off Canada Day with performances from Bryan Adams, Our Lady Peace, and more.

Overall for the 2017 festival, 21,353 tickets worth $3.9 million were sold. More than 7,000 of those tickets were bought in June and July.

Landers said they are hoping for additional ticket sales throughout the week.

“What we’re going to ensure that we do is put on the best festival we can. The lineup is solid and there will be great music every night, we’re also complementing the festival with the free activities outside of the park for people who don’t attend, we have four fireworks shows — that’s all going ahead. What we hope that the buyers do is once the festival starts, that they join in,” Landers said after the meeting.

“We’re running a festival for the amount of people that we hope to achieve in attendance, but those who have bought their tickets aren’t going to get short-changed on a truncated festival. They will get the full festival experience, with all that was available to them last year.”

Right now at the festival site in Hollinger Park, he told council there is a “flurry of activity.”

The fencing has gone up, trailers have been brought in, the port-a-potties are on site, tents are going up, and more.

The full festival site plan is available at starsandthunder.com.

“It’s very similar to what it was last year with the exception that we have a lot more food vendors than we were anticipating,” he said.

One sticking point from festival-goers last year was chairs.

People are allowed to bring in chairs, however people sitting were upset if others stood up in front of them after the music started.

Eventually, festival staff designated part of the park for chairs, and the other half for people who wanted to stand.

“It will be a very similar set up to last year where we asked those that want to be seated and not be interrupted in their view to sit on the one side and those that want to stand or maybe sit in a chair in behind the standing area but stand up during the songs to sit on the other side so that we can try and let everyone best enjoy the festival as possible,” said Timmins Mayor Steve Black.

While there there were complaints last year, he said they weren’t overwhelming.

“If you look at any Bryan Adams concert video footage that he’s posted on his Instagram in the last six months, the crowd is up and dancing and having a good time and that’s the kind of atmosphere we’d like to see. But we’re trying to accommodate everyone and when you’re having an eight-day festival for that many hours a day, some people would like to sit or need to sit for various personal health related issues or disability issues, so we want to make sure that everyone has a chance to enjoy the festival,” he said.

Find out what kind of chairs you can bring in here.

You can pick up tickets for the festival online.

The cost is:

• $300 for an 8-day general admission pass for adults

• $500 for an 8-day VIP pass

• $90 each for an individual day pass to days one to six

• $135 for a day seven individual pass

• $160 for a day eight individual pass

• The children’s pricing is $100 for an eight-day general admission pass, or $25 per day