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VIDEO: See Iowa Hawkeyes football stadium transformed for concert
Transforming Kinnick Stadium into a concert venue for Saturday's Back Porch Revival country music show — featuring the likes of Tucker Beathard, Big & Rich, Thomas Rhett and headliner Blake Shelton — is taking a Herculean effort that includes forklifts, unique sound checks, goal post removal and a 246,000-pound crane.
It's all part of an effort to pack 58,000 fans into the stadium for the venue's first-ever concert.
Workers construct the stage in preparation for the Back Porch Revival concert featuring headliner Blake Shelton at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (Adam Wesley/The Gazette)
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