The Field of Dreams movie site near Dyersville is hosting its first ever concert weekend with country singer Tim McGraw on Saturday and the rock group Nickelback headlining Sunday night.

Travel Dubuque is handling the event and spokesman John Sutter says they first started talking about it two years ago and is turning out very well. “We’ve had incredible response to it. I mean, Tim McGraw sold out 20,000 tickets. And the Nickelback Day Sunday, we’ve sold over 13,000 tickets, so that’s 53,000 people who think, ‘yeah, this is a good idea. I want to go to that’,” he says.

The event will have other concerts throughout the two days leading to the headliners. “It’s kind of a festival atmosphere, opening the gates at 11 a.m., parking all around the movie site across the across Lansing Road and

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