Welcome back to 13 News.
Now at noon this weekend the fit
ever Beach at Festival kicks off
at the Virginia Beach Oceanfron.
The three day festivals lineup
is jam packed with talent.
We're headlined here by Miranda Lambert,
Thomas Rhett and Luke Bryan.
Big names in the country music world here.
Tell us more about it.
We have Brian O'Connell and
we're glad to see you here toda.
Very excited to talk to you
about the Beach at Festival.
It's been a wonderful week.
I've been here for almost a full week.
Our team's been here for two
weeks in the Virginia Beach,
Hampton Roads area.
And progress is being made.
I love the cut ins that you guys are doing,
so you can see the progress
of building the stage.
And we're prepared to deliver
a country music festival like
this area has never seen before.
I know there's been other ones.
But not like beaches.
Yeah, this one's going to be special.
We've all been gearing up very
excited about the festival.
Of course we got it.
We got to talk about the
elephant in the room, about
the weather, aren't we? If it r,
yeah, you're going to get wet. OK, OK.
Just like going outside,
if it happens to drizzle a little bit,
you're going to get wet.
Yeah. In all seriousness,
a lot of questions about the weather.
I've got a friend right over hee
telling me today is the worst dy
of of water coming from the sky.
But look, safety protocols are #1 for us.
Okay. Lightning bad.
We will shut it down for lightn,
and if that happens,
we will try to resume Okay.
I know there's been a situation
not too long ago where a freakig
tornado went right down the roa.
Okay, that's a different story.
We'll address that if it happen.
It's not going to happen
as far as I'm concerned.
That's right,
because we all are sending
out positive vibes.
Yeah, we're certainly hoping for
everything to go smoothly this weekend.
Of course, we do have to ask
the other question then.
If by chance we do have to shut
anything down, what can we expet
in terms of refunds for tickets?
If we have to get rid of a whole
day's worth of a festival,
we would then go into a refund
situation for that day. OK,
Just for that day. Whole day.
Shut down if we shut down a whoe
day, OK. Alright, so now we've got all that out the way. Everyy
good with that, Everybody's good with that.
Hopefully we won't have to have
that conversation. I have, I hae
friends in meteorological places right
next to me that are telling me
that she's pulling for it, righ?
Yeah, I mean, she's pulling for.
I'm pulling for it.
Virginia Beach is pulling for i,
the whole area.
Is pulling forward.
I think it's going to be a
great experience come down
and see us on the beach.
Now we know we have these big
names coming but you mentioned s
festival is is unlike any other how So
I think the design and the layot
will be the the big ones and I
really want to focus on the fact
that it isn't just a come and st
in front of the stage type deal.
It is a wander about.
You know people are used to the beach.
You know we're at roughly 4th S.
and I think the next from Nashve
stage is somewhere around 13th.
If I'm not mistaken but everything is
available on beach at festival.m
for maps and things like that bt
I want it's interactive there's
there's different things to do there's
plenty of time in between acts d
want you to enjoy the waterfron.
We want you to enjoy the beach
and discover new acts down at
the next from Nashville
and and the best way for
people to get in touch with us.
I know you mentioned the websitt
to kind of keep up with everythg
there's an app as well. Well
there is an app please go and download
the app for beach at festival o.
As many people have figured out,
we answer every e-mail.
And if you looked at my phone right now,
you're going to see a lot of
people asking the same questions
that we just talked about. But
info@beachitfestival.com and
our great marketing team and
myself sometimes personally,
will answer your emails. OK,
so there you go folks.
You can e-mail,
You can download the app,
check the website.
It's going to be a great weeken.
We're going to go ahead and claim it.
We're claiming it.
We're claiming it's going to be fantastic.
Love it. So much.
And we're excited to work
with you this weekend
from beach at Festival.
Thank
you so much for having us on.
And thanks for having us in the area.
We hope to be here for a long,
long time. That's right.
That's a plan that's gonna
go ahead and stick to it.
Thank you so much, so
much. And we'll be right back.