By then, the festival grounds were filling up.
Along the festival grounds, set up in a parking lot, more elaborate costuming was on display.
It rained much of Friday, and the festival grounds were muddy.
But next weekend, for the first time, they will move beyond the festival grounds.
After the in-theater prologue, audiences will troupe through the festival grounds on guided, animated tours.
First of all, an epic rainstorm battered the festival grounds all day, making it a pretty miserable experience.
The catastrophe happened after one end of a tunnel — the only entrance to the festival grounds — was closed.
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After a decorative sequence to establish Newport and the festival grounds as venues, another performance — and another problem — follow.
Along with the shows, the festival grounds offer a maze, a petting zoo, art activities and children's performances.
The festival grounds, held on a former railroad depot, had a capacity for about 250,000, but an estimated 1.4. million people tried to attend the festival.
