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Still time to get tickets for Pendleton Whisky Music Fest
By Jennifer Colton
Go! Magazine
PENDLETON — Eric Church
and Macklemore are set to
take the stage at the Pendleton
Round-Up Grounds next month
for the annual Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest — and there are tick-
ets available for the Saturday,
July 9 show.
“We have some tickets left.
We’re not sold out,” Doug Corey
said. “I think a lot of people as-
sume that the event is sold out,
and it’s truly not. We can always
fi nd tickets for people who want
to go.”
Corey and Andy McAnally
co-manage Whisky Fest, which
is now in its sixth or seventh
year, depending on how some-
one counts the year the show
was canceled for the COVID-19
pandemic. The concert has
welcomed Zack Brown Band,
Maroon 5, Pitbull and Blake
Shelton, Post Malone and Toby
Keith. This year’s lineup — Eric
Church and Macklemore — was
originally scheduled for 2020.
“On this concert we’ve been
really lucky,” Corey said. “We
signed Eric Church in 2019, then
COVID hit in 2020 and we had to
have a smaller concert last year
(in 2021), so he’s rolled over two
years in a row. Both Eric Church
and Macklemore, they’ve been
really easy to work with.”
The pandemic also impacted
ticket sales. Tickets for the 2020
Whisky Music Fest went on sale
before the pandemic, and it was
sold out. When the concert was
canceled, ticket holders had
the option to hold their tickets
or to return them. About 75%
of ticket holders chose to keep
them, banking on the concert
PENDLETON
WHISKY MUSIC
FEST
Gates open at 3 p.m.
Saturday, July 9, at the
Pendleton Round Up
grounds.
The music starts at 4 p.m.
Find more information
and purchase tickets at
www.pendletonwhiskymusic
fest.com.
East Oregonian, File
Stage lights silhouette fans July 10, 2021, at the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds during the Pendleton Whisky Music
Fest. Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Eric Church is the headliner of the 2022 festival alongside
Grammy award-winner Macklemore.
eventually happening.
“The community support
behind this event is what I fi nd
very, very amazing,” Corey said.
“They’ve really gotten behind it
and backed it up.”
This year, Whisky Fest will
happen in a similar format to
past years, but Corey said they
are trying to limit lines inside the
venue. ID checks will happen in
Roy Raley park before entering
the Round-Up Grounds, and
ticket holders will have the op-
tion to purchase drink vouchers
in the park instead of paying
with a debit or credit card in line
at the event.
Along with limiting lines, they
will have multiple hydration
stations to refi ll water bottles as
well as shaded spots for people
to cool down during the event.
They will have a medical tent
and fi rst responders on site, as
well as multiple security com-
panies and a free bus service to
help people get home or back to
their hotel, whether or not they
drink.
Multiple local groups, in-
cluding youth activities and
non-profi t organizations, will
also use Pendleton Whisky
Music Fest as a fundraiser,
serving as vendors or operating
car lots.
In addition to the Saturday
concert, Whisky Fest will be
bringing back the Friday night
kick-off party from 6 p.m. to
midnight on Main Street. That
concert includes Kurt Van Meter,
Precious Byrd and DJ Sovern-T.
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