SUMMIT POINT, W.Va. — With all of the permits in place, everything is ready to go for the 18th All Good Music Festival and Campout which is being held next week for the first time in Jefferson County.
Workers have already begun setting up the venue at Berry Hill Farm located in Summit Point.
The Jefferson County Board of Zoning Appeals approved the request from Walther Productions Inc. to hold the festival in Jefferson County back in October, provided the organizer met a specific set of requirements, including developing traffic and safety plans.
Jefferson County Sheriff Pete Dougherty signed off on those plans after talking with law enforcement officers in surrounding states, but has said he’d prefer a smaller gathering.
“I don’t like this. I don’t want to do any more of these than we absolutely have to, but I think we can do it with a reasonable degree of safety,” Dougherty told WEPM Radio in Martinsburg, a MetroNews affiliate.
Dougherty said, in the future, he’d like to see the county limit the size of such events.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are expected to visit for the All Good Music Festival that runs from July 9 through 11.
The list of bands scheduled to perform includes Primus, moe., Cake, Dark Star Orchestra, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Lotus, Lettuce, Thievery Corporation and STS9.
The All Good Festival was on hiatus last year after two years at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio.
For a nearly a decade prior, the festival was staged at Marvin’s Mountaintop located in Masontown in Preston County.
In 2011, the last year for the event in Preston County, Nicole Miller, 20, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was killed and two of her friends were seriously injured when a pickup truck crashed into the tent where they were sleeping.
Several lawsuits were later settled.