Jamestown Update

It sounds like the festival did better over the weekend than what I saw on Friday. Well, I did go that day because I thought the crowds would be smaller.

Organizers said official attendance figures for the three-day festival would take time to compile, but that a preliminary tally showed roughly 70,000 single-day tickets were sold, out of a possible 90,000.

Only about 37,000 tickets were sold in advance -- "certainly not what we had hoped for," said Jane Zeidler, executive director of Jamestown 2007, the state organization coordinating the festival. But more than 33,000 people apparently bought tickets at the gates.