Live updates from Made in America 2013, Day Two

11 p.m - "It was great"

Danny McDade, 32, from Conshohocken, had the time of his life.

"It was great," he said. "Organized, and good, safe fun."

He give kudos to the city for pulling off a great event. His two favorite moments were being in the VIP tent with Beyonce and Calvin Harris. "New, hip, new age."

- Mari Schaefer

10:50 p.m. - "It was awesome"

"It was awesome," proclaimed a 60-year-old Philadelphia woman who didn't want to give her name. She admitted to being a huge music fan. "Classical, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Heavy metal."

She enjoyed watching the tribal experience of the jumping crowds at Calvin Harris.

She came specifically to see Nine Inch Nails and had a great time. She bought tickets for both days but sold off yesterday's ticket for all but $9 of her total cost. "A dollar an inch," she said.

- Mari Schaefer

10:30 p.m. - Crowds begin to thin

Crowds were beginning to thin after 10 p.m. As the last band of the event - Nine Inch Nails - played. Cleanup crews had already began to shut down areas and booths as garbage crews stood by ready to take on the chore of sweeping up thousands of empty bottles, cans and other garbage.

Chris Collins and Brahin Howard, with Greenlee Security, stood by the Liberty Stage as workers disassembled equipment.

"There is no more Freedom, they broke it down," Collins said about the other stage.

- Mari Schaefer

9:50 p.m. - "I don't work here"

Marquis Lancaster and Brianna Rodzwic inadvertently found themselves manning an INFO booth when they sat down at the unmanned station for a break. There was a steady stream of people asking for the water station, the Skype booth, and if there was a lost and found.

The two were happy to oblige with the answers and pass out an occasional venue map from a pile left on the table until one concert goer gave them attitude.

"I don't work here," said Lancaster, of Coatesville. As the indignant man left in search of an outlet to recharge his phone.

The couple will probably come back next year.

"If I can afford it," said Rodzwic, of Levittown.

As for their INFO booth experience ... "at least I wasn't getting stepped on," Rodzwic said.

- Mari Schaefer

8:45 p.m. - "They have Cheese Whiz on them?"

Britney Williams, 27, and Diona Watkins, traveled 12 hours from Cincinnati to check Beyonce off their bucket list. The two friends were killing time playing Candy Crush, a video game, while waiting for Calvin Harris to take the stage.

The 10-year quest to see Beyonce was worth it, even if it meant standing for nine hours.

"It was intense," said Williams. The two were glad they came to the concert but don't plan to return. They have passed the point in life where a big open party atmosphere is a draw -- they want assigned seats. Next up on their bucket list is exploring Philadelphia and getting a "real" Philly cheese steak.

"They have Cheese Whiz on them?" said Watkins.

- Mari Schaefer

5:44 p.m. - Gearing up for the night shows

Hundreds of people continue to stream through the gates of Made In America, many of them already in party mode.

"We were drinking at the hotel. It's cheaper," said Mariah Lopez, 22, of Allentown. She was waiting with friend Olesya Kuchma, 21, of Radnor while their male friends bought $10 Budweiser tall cans from the vendors stationed immediately inside the gate.

Lopez and Kuchma came to te festival last year and said they learned it's better to wait until the bands they want to see are ready to go on.

For Lopez, that meant DJ Calvin Harris.  "That's my kind of music," she said. "It gets you all kinds of wound up."

Meagan Grenaldo and her friends followed the same strategy. They entered just after 5, looking forward to seeing Harris, Macklemore and others.

Grenaldo, 25, of Center City, added that they had been at the festival all day Saturday and "needed a day to recover."

4:56 p.m. - Sssshhhh!! It's Solange!

With a groovy, upbeat set, Solange had fans dancing and swaying, some so into the music that they refused to speak.

"My wife loves Solange," Derek Pearson, 38, explained while his wife stayed enveloped in the music.

Danielle Hurd, 26, of Rittenhouse Square, wasn't much of a fan before today's show, but couldn't stand still during the singer's most popular song, "Losing You."

"Very entertaining," said Hurd. "I like how she interacts with the crowd."

Shafer Minnick and his friends were dancing throughout Solange's set.

"I love her. She's a good entertainer, she has a very natural vibe onstage," said Minnick, 27, of Washington DC.

His friend Megan Dave, 29, said Solange is "phenomenal" in her own way -- referring to the singer's blockbuster big sister, Beyonce. "She's more '70s, sort of funky and alternative."

But for Susan D'Angelo, there was just something missing. "I thought she looked gorgeous. I loved her outfit, her falsetto is awesome," said D'Angelo, 29, of DC. "But until the last song, there was nothing that really held my attention onstage."

"Oh, you just want her to be beyonce," Minnick teased.

Next they were heading to the Rocky Stage for Kendrick Lamar. "We hope there's something fast enough to twerk to," Minnick said.

- Jessica Parks

4:36 p.m. - No rain expected tonight

It looks like the much-talked-about heavy rains expected to swamp the region today will not hit until after all the bands have packed up and left.

There is a 30 percent chance there may be a few showers in the area tonight, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Mt. Holly. But the precipitation totals are not expected to be more than a tenth of an inch. After about 1 a.m. the likelihood of rain will gradually increase until about 4 a.m., when scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected.

- Mari Schaefer

3:33 p.m. - A music-festival regular rates Philly

A music-festival frequenter stopped at the skate park to shoot photos of riders in action. With her lens inches away from the ramp, Dana Pacifico had a great view.

Pacifico, 23, of Long Island, N.Y., is a photography student at Parsons who attends five or six festivals a year, around the country.

Happy to provide some expert analysis, Pacifico said of yesterday's acts: Phoenix was great and "beyonce killed it." But overall, she said, the Made In America festival is "too many people in too small a space."

She was also irked at what appeared to her a Philly quirk. "Everybody has a blanket and is laying down!" she noted quizzically. At other festivals, she said, there's more room to move from stage to stage, and comfort gear is relegated to the campgrounds.

She also said having a large monument positioned in front of the main stage makes it difficult for most people to enjoy the headliners.

Her advice for all-day festival attendees: Skip the blankets; "hydrate; and if you're with your friends, watch each others' backs."

With her favorite acts finishing yesterday, Pacifico figured she'd get a lot more photos in today. Although, she added: "I'm beyond excited for Nine Inch Nails and I'm giving Kendrick Lamar a second chance, because he totally sucked at Governor's Ball."

- Jessica Parks

2:55 p.m. - More downtime but still good reviews

Shahida Mimms of Germantown and Eion Brooks of South Philly took a break on a sofa set up at the Budweiser Biergarten tent south of the Art Museum and compared the scene with last year.

"This year is nice," said Mimms. "Last year was way better acts. Was crazy. This year is more downtime. Not so many well-known artists.

"But you know what? Empire of the Sun is awesome. Awe, some. Queen of the Stone Age. And Empire of the Sun." Her face lights up. She rocks her shoulders

"beyonce was boring. She was singing like she's smoking cigarettes."

Brooks was underwhelmed, too. "beyonce had all these wardrobe changes. ... She was doing that down tempo.

"Chains, now that had the whole crowd going. They played for a solid hour. No wardrobe changes."

"The city should do this every year," Brooks says.

Mimms agreed: "It's a win-win for the city. More revenue. My friends meet from all over the country."

- Joe DiStefano

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2:25 p.m. - Concert good for business at Four Seasons

From inside the plush Four Seasons hotel on Logan Square, the music from the Parkway sounds more like rumbling. To hotel management, it's a glorious sound.

"It means more business for us, it's in our front yard, and it means more business for all the hotels," said Four Seasons manager Michael Nenner. "Like I told Mayor Nutter last night, we need the business. We need more events like this here in Philadelphia."

2:18 p.m. - An entrepreneur sees an opportunity

Outside Suburban Station, on the shady west side of 18th Street, a man from Elkton, Md. who calls himself G-Prop - "cause I'm God's Property" - is selling bottled water from a blue plastic cooler. "Get your ice cold water here. Just $2. It's $5 inside."

How's business? "I made $175 yesterday," he said.

Gross or net? "That's profit. After my costs."

As for the crowd he's been catering to: "That group for Nine Inch Nails was crazy. A lot of 'em drunk. You know, about like a Phillies game."

- Joe DiStefano

1:43 p.m. - A slow start

The gates have been open for an hour, but ticket holders are arriving at a very slow pace.

There's no line at any of the entrance gates or vendor booths. Seats remain abundant under the shaded tents.

In the Budweiser Black Crown lounge, two men sat patiently on curved leather couches. They had none of the blankets, backpacks or all-day gear of some other concert-goers.

"We're simple folk," said Alex Brasio, 22, of North Carolina. "Wallet, cellphone, watch."

He and Hasan Wise, 21, of New York, met while serving in the Marines. They came to Made in America last year and "will probably come back every year," Wise said.

"Now that I'm not in the Marines anymore, I have a lot more free time," he added.

Probably the busiest spot so far is the Vertigo ride in the center of the festival.

Andrew Fitzgerald and Erica Sangree of Montgomery County were here to do face-painting for their friend's show (Robert DeLong, 3pm, Freedom Stage). But until then, they figured, "Why not go on this ride?" Fitzgerald said. "The line's short. It's hot. The ride's only a minute and a half long."

After a few minutes standing in line, they loaded onto a swing and spun 73 feet of the ground.

Fitz & The Tantrums, Jesse Rose and Yazz The Greatest are set to kick off at 2 p.m.

- Jessica Parks

City and vendors stock more water for today's MIA sessions

With tens of thousands of fans drinking, dancing and sweating it out on a balmy summer day, it's no surprise that water was in high demand at Saturday's Made in America festival.

"Around 4, 4:30, when the concession stands ran out of bottled water, that's when things got really hectic," said Tanner Watt, supervising the volunteers at Brita's Hydration station.

In response to long lines and fans chanting, "We need water," the Philadelphia Water Department added hoses and a misting station.

Brian Hastings of Aramark, the vendor supplying most of the concession stands, denied that the stands ran out of water Saturday. "We still have some leftover," he said.

Nevertheless, he said, Aramark brought in 44 more pallets of bottled water than it had Saturday.

Today's water supply should be much higher, with 40 percent more bottles on hand (at $4 apiece) and PWD adding free hoses, drinking fountains and faucets in various places on the Parkway.

Brita's tent offers free, cold, filtered water, and the lines are not expected to reach yesterday's peak of 40 minutes long.

Yesterday, Watt said, the eight Brita taps filled more than 22,000 bottles' worth of water.

Concertgoers can bring in one 12-ounce factory-sealed water bottle or an empty reusable bottle. Brita and several other vendors are distributing a limited number of free reusable bottles.

Greg Jaskolka, a PWD worker, said part of the problem yesterday was that fans couldn't see where the hydration stations were. Unlike the medical tent and information booths, there are no signs, ballons or banners for water that could be seen from a distance.

"There were so many people, even when they were right on top of [the fountains], sometimes they couldn't see them," he said.

- Jessica Parks