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FRESNO, Calif (KSEE/KGPE) - The Luke Bryan Farm Tour is moving connected aft 2 nights successful the Central Valley.
Harlan Ranch successful Clovis was packed Friday, as information ushered 20,000 radical done 12 information checkpoints.
Fans waited months for Bryan’s workplace circuit to scope the Central Valley. Once the time came to spot him, they said the enactment wasn’t truthful bad.
“We farm, we privation to spot Luke Bryan successful concert, we privation to person a bully time,” instrumentality Chris Niederfrank said.
The fans’ anticipation for the performance was thing compared to that of section instrumentality enforcement agencies, though.
“Between CHP and us, there’s astir apt 100 cops retired here. And we met with the circuit folks this greeting to spell implicit immoderate last-minute details, but I’m assured that everyone showing up contiguous volition beryllium safe.,” said Lt. Ryan Gilbert with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.
Fans said harmless is precisely however they felt.
“It’s been ace accelerated erstwhile they opened the doors, truthful it’s not atrocious astatine all,” instrumentality Megon Obrist said.
Her praise was a invited reappraisal after the state star’s Atwater performance the nighttime before.
“I’m bittersweet I missed retired connected Luke Bryan,” instrumentality Teresa Richardson said.
Richardson says she paid astir $150 to spot Bryan astatine the Thursday concert, and says she was excited for the amusement until she got determination and realized the venue lone had 2 information checkpoints for each 20,000 people.
“It was not similar severely warm, but it was beauteous warm. We had radical fainting and passing retired close successful beforehand of us. We had we seen 2 radical from Cal Fire attending them, and past they would person to halt attending those radical and past tally to different idiosyncratic due to the fact that they were conscionable dropping similar flies,” Richardson described.
She says each of that was earlier the performance adjacent started.
Once the performance did start, she says she could perceive Bryan’s dependable from extracurricular but didn’t deliberation she would marque it wrong successful clip to spot him.
“I started to imagine, if this breaks retired into a mob and radical commencement pushing each different and hitting each different and trampling each other, this is going to get truly disfigured truly fast. So we decided to leave,” Richardson said.
She says the Atwater Castle Airport venue was not prepared for the crowd.
Friday’s fans sang a antithetic tune, though.
“It’s each been good. We’re present for a bully time,” Niederfrank said.
He hopes Bryan volition travel backmost 1 time and "Play it Again."
