HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Over 40,000 people flocked to Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington Saturday evening for one of, if not the most anticipated concert in the city’s history.

Zach Bryan, a folk/country singer who has totaled over nine billion streams on Spotify in his career, announced he would be coming to Marshall’s football stadium back in March. One of the members of Bryan’s band is a Marshall graduate.

Huntington Chief of Police Phil Watkins said before the concert on MetroNews Midday that the department had been working on both traffic and public safety plans for months leading up to the concert. Part of the traffic plan was to have officers’ direct traffic at many lights around the stadium.

“We wanted to make sure people could focus on the event, and to do that, people have to f

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