With 1st Gila River Music Festival behind them, organizers look forward to 2022

by Melissa St. Aude | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune

The first Gila River Music Festival brought visitors from all over Arizona./Submitted

More than 300 people visited the town of Kearny Saturday and Sunday for the Gila River Music Festival.

And with the success of the town’s first-ever music festival behind them, organizers are looking forward to next year.

“It was wonderful and there were many positive comments,” said Jamie Ramsey, mayor of Kearny and one of the organizers of the Gila River Music Festival. “Everyone was talking about next year, so I think we will go ahead and have a Gila River Festival 2022. Maybe the river will even join us — it was drying up due to the drought this year.”

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