page_title: Phish festivals
section_title: Lemonwheel
hierarchical_section_title: Phish festivals / Lemonwheel
caption_attribution_description: Phish at Lemonwheel, Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine
context_page_description: Starting in 1996, American jam band Phish has hosted a series of festivals—ten in total, with attendance at around 85,000. They are typically the only band to perform at the festivals, although the 1998 Lemonwheel festival and 1999 Camp Oswego festival both featured a second stage for supporting acts.
context_section_description: Lemonwheel was the third festival hosted by the band, taking place on August 15 and 16, 1998, again at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine.  60,000 people attended creating a community of fans that, again, made Limestone one of the largest cities in Maine over the weekend.
  Phish was the only band to play the main stage, performing seven sets of music over two nights.  Several other bands, including Keller Williams and Manic Mule, played in the sidestage. The concert grounds, shaped like a large figure 8, contained several beer gardens, a Ferris wheel, an elephant, jugglers, and stiltsmen.  At the festival, the audience made candles throughout the weekend. Saturday night's fourth set included an hour-long ambient jam on a dark stage covered in hundreds of homemade candles.  On Sunday, the night ended with the band lighting fuses onstage, burning a path through the stage and activating a large elephant that sprayed a gusher of water into the air from its trunk, and then slowly made its way through the audience to the tune of "Baby Elephant Walk"
caption: Lemonwheel
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