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Montgomery To Headline CC Concert

06/12/2008 06:46:52

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Forget the brouhaha over zoning.

Pay no attention to a rumor about the health department putting the smack down.

And, yes, John Michael Montgomery is out of rehab in time to still headline.

But the biggest sign that the first Country Legends Concert at Rei Lakes is going on as planned arrived Wednesday, June 11 — the portable toilets .

"Look at all those Porta-Johns," smiled Chuck Harris, the mastermind behind the country music and bass fishing festival that opens Friday, June 13. "I just hope they fill them up."

Admittedly, Harris never thought he'd be this happy at the prospect of someone having to answer nature's call, but it's the crowd he wants.

And with a day to go before the Crabill Road campground hosts its first big festival — potentially putting it on the road to one day rivaling Country Concert in Fort Loramie — Harris has no idea how many people are coming.

"I'm sweatin' bullets," he confessed.

Advance ticket sales, he said, have been disappointing. He attributes it to rumors that, in part, flared up after Springfield Twp. balked at the idea of a three-day music festival at the pay-to-fish site.

Harris, however, had an ace up his sleeve — the 115-acre site is split between Springfield and Green townships. The stage will be set up on the Green Twp. side.

The Springfield Twp. portion will be turned into a parking lot.

But the festival — headlined Friday by T.G. Sheppard, Saturday by Darryl Worley and Sunday by Montgomery — will now live or die on gate sales.

"If the weather turns bad," Harris worried, "it's done for."

That also would rain on Harris' plans for future festivals, including a classic rock event in the fall.

"This is a starting point," he explained. "This has to be a success to take that next step."

(Article courtesy of www.springfieldnewssun.com)