DELAND, Fla. – Music festivals are returning to DeLand. The 20th annual DeLand Original Music Festival kicks off on Saturday and it will be the first permitted music event in the city during COVID-19.“It’s just a new animal.
It’s a pandemic that we have to deal with now and it’s had some challenging aspects to get everything together,” Philip Weidner said.Philip Weidner organized the event and said he had to submit a Covid-19 safety plan to the city before hosting the 12-hour event and follow certain guidelines, like doing away with cash.“We have sanitation sinks at every entranceway.
We have face masks available to people who don’t have one because we do require face masks throughout the entire event,” Weidner said.Weidner spent Friday.