Promoters pulled off the inaugural weekend of TwoGether Land Festival, but not without some snags along the way.
festival at Fair Park , Dallas' new destination rap festival, got off to a rocky start. Things were scheduled to kick off at noon on Saturday, but entrance gates didn’t open until 12:45pm, frustrating early-bird fans in line. Things moved pretty quickly once they got going though, perhaps too quickly with main stage sets from Josh Levi and 310Babii cut short to about 15 minutes each.
There were still sound difficulties that caused Dru Hill’s mics to cut in and out intermittently, but nowhere near as bad as during Shaboozey’s set. “Some of y'all are looking at us like ‘What the fuck are you doing?” joked Sisqó, “It’s called singing! The mics are ON!”High points of Dru Hill’s set included celebrations of returning original lineup members Scola and Jazz, the latter of which took the stage for a stunning rendition of “Never Make a Promise”.
While serenading the crowd with the erotic “Tonight,” dollar bills cascaded over Walker as she lounged on a slowly rotating pedestal, spreading her legs as wide as the vast night sky. It was an impassioned love letter to strippers and a seductive beckoning to the bedroom for audience members on the way home.
Even more disconcerting, Dallas police that were on-site confirmed they’d received intel of a shooting threat for Sunday. A privately contracted K-9 unit placed bomb-sniffing dogs at every entrance point, so the likelihood of anyone managing to make it inside with a gun was slim. But if the worst case scenario had taken place, patrons would've only had limited options for fleeing due to the misleading nature of marked emergency exits.
On the other side of the grounds, local favorites Cure for Paranoia drew a large audience at the smaller Toyota-sponsored stage for a lively set unburdened by any of the time constraints put upon main stage performers.
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