Country music fans feast on Harvest festival
Fans listen to Dustin Lynch perform at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Fans cheer as Tyler Farr performs at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Fans listen to Dustin Lynch perform at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A fan displays his patriotism at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A fan drinks a beer while listening to Dustin Lynch perform at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Fans listen to Dustin Lynch perform at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A scene at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jason Aldean's band performs at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jason Aldean performs at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jason Aldean performs at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 5, 2014. (Justin Yurkanin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
About 20,000 country-and-western music fans flocked to the inaugural Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival at the MGM Resorts Village in Las Vegas last weekend. Beer-swilling men and women clad in overalls and straw cowboy hats swayed to the music of Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.
Fans of the Nashville sound made the south end of the Strip look like a country fair for a few days. Cornhole games were speckled in between cowboy hat vendors and lawn chairs with signs reading “redneck seating.”
The festival was the third in four weeks at the MGM Resorts Village. This weekend brings the ninth annual Wine Amplified festival.
