Outside his home, Neal Holmes, 40, said he was trying to imagine that this would be the moment when his hometown returns.
He played enough games for Manchester United in 2000-01 to qualify for a Premier League winner's medal and also featured in a Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich but nothing will ever come close to the joy Chadwick felt at the end of last season, when he signed for Cambridge and helped his hometown club return to the Football League after a nine-year absence.
The Big Top stage welcomed Cashmere Cat's water-droplet samples and the fan-favourite remix of "Do You" by Miguel and later gave Keys N Krates the hometown show return they deserve.
Mr. May started up the organization in 2007 after the sailboat Barracuda sank in his hometown while returning to Chicago after the annual yacht race to Mackinac Island.
Or if you like your vampires with guitars, you could opt instead for Vampire Weekend -- which includes nobody even vaguely resembling a succubus -- when that highly praised hometown band returns home for three big shows in Manhattan.
A tale of half-buried loves and jealousies that are exhumed when a hometown beauty returns to Harrison in 1965 after a long absence, "The Old Friends" suggests that Foote might have been dipping into the best-selling fiction of his contemporary Harold Robbins.
The show, with a book by Peter Webb adapted from a novel by Edward Swift, is about a man who, shamed for his effeminacy, was driven away from Splendora, his East Texas hometown, and returns 15 years later dressed as a woman and bent on revenge.
And just when Frankie's ears were numb with red cold, the man had brought a hat". After Frankie grows up and moves away from his hometown, he returns to share gifts of his own.
After many years away from his hometown, Blake Waltrip returned to Glendale on Friday to promote a brand of milk that launched in Australia and is beginning to show up on shelves in California stores.
