FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Two Wolverine festival fundraisers
2015 Firefly Music Festival
headlines Paul McCartney
  More dates to circle on the calendar, back-to-back long weekends:
Thursday – Sunday, June 18 – 21  & Friday – Sunday, June 26 – 28
No, these dates are not for games, or practice, or lifting.
 

Firefly crowds of 90,000+ are expected.

But these dates definitely set a venue, schedule, and workout for Wesley Wolverines. It is just of a very different kind than softball.

These dates are the four days of the 2015 Firefly Music Festival, June 18-21, and a brand new musical happening called the Big Barrel Country Music Festival, June 26-28.

Both festivals are held at the The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway.

Firefly Musical Festival

Firefly, now in its fourth year, draws enormous crowds into Dover, DE, where Wesley Wolverines, as event worker bees, have found it to be a major fundraising success.
 

Wolverine Firefly workers, left-to-right, 
sophomore #42 UT Devin Mackay (Bangor, PA), 
freshman #99 P/OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE), 
junior #6 MI Breanna Hartman (Red Bank, NJ).

There's exciting news this year that Paul McCartney will headline Firefly's more than 110 bands, which has organizers expecting crowds exceeding 90,000!

Big Barrel Country Musical Festival

Firefly is followed up just a week later on the same grounds with what will be the FIRST EVER Big Barrel Country Music Festival. Wolverines will be wearing aprons behind the food booths for this one, too.

Big Barrel should attract large numbers of country music fans with singers Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and over 35 country groups booked for performances.

Wesley Wolverine fundraising

Wolverine freshman #23 
P/MI Destiny Davis 
(Salisbury, MD) catches 
a Firefly performance!

The Firefly crowds typically camp out the entire day around The Woodlands' 105 acres and upwards to five stages for the visiting bands, only taking quick breaks for lunch or dinner. 

In the center of everything, last year, and the year before, are the Wolverine softball and Volleyball players -- new recruits are recruited, too -- working together to prepare and serve food to hungry festival goers. Wolverine players from out of town bunk with local teammates who live close to the festival grounds.

It is a lot of work, but a huge fundraiser for the Wesley teams. It's fun, as well, with team bonding and sometimes the ability to catch a performance here and there. 

This year, it's almost double the work -- and double the fun -- for two weekends in a row!

Wesley Wolverine Firefly softball and volleyball players met up each morning 
on the Wesley College campus to depart for the day's work at the festival.

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