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Country stampede

Post by kinsleycat » June 22nd, 2019, 10:46 am

is moving to Topeka for at least the next 3 years. Changing the name to Heartland Stampede. It's going to be a pretty big financial hit to some Manhattan businesses.

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Post by WIldWIllieCat » June 22nd, 2019, 1:30 pm

Heard a radio-head on 101.5 saying, "someone needs to start a rock festival" to replace stampede, and my first thought was, "why not you, 101.5? why does someone else need to start one?"

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Post by kinsleycat » June 23rd, 2019, 7:50 am

Sounds like the storms caused some excitement last night at the concert. It was mentioned on the national news this morning along with a video of people running from intense lightning. I don't think Heartland Park offers much protection from bad weather.

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Post by hilltopwildcat » June 23rd, 2019, 2:57 pm

Attended Thursday and Saturday, parts of both days. Real bummer no Jason Aldean. Lots of back and forth on the move. Most seem to think it was a power play on Heartland/Topeka's part. I know I would have attended a lot more at Tuttle. Some people on FB actually think that the dam is ready to give way. I think it will lose the ambience of being in Manhattan. This felt like a mini-Arrowhead music event. I'd think that Manhattan could host a country music festival. This might be a chance for a rework of the past format.

I assume that most of the people in place were already hired to work the event at Tuttle so some of the disorganization wasn't understandable. I understand you may have to redraw the maps but I'd think most of the basics should be relatively easily transposed. I've thought it was a pretty lame argument that Heartland had just hosted a race a couple of weeks ago.

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Post by Cooter » June 24th, 2019, 7:54 pm

Glad to have this country trash event out of Manhattan. Fights, domestic, drugs, stabbing s, murder, rapes.

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Post by hilltopwildcat » June 24th, 2019, 9:12 pm

Exactly. Let's get some hip-hop in there. Pros.

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Post by DMC » June 24th, 2019, 9:33 pm

Cooter wrote:
June 24th, 2019, 7:54 pm
Glad to have this country trash event out of Manhattan. Fights, domestic, drugs, stabbing s, murder, rapes.
I didn't know democrats liked country music.

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Post by JazzCatDRP » June 25th, 2019, 10:27 am

Just a reminder to keep the politics in G&G, DMC.

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