Covering Country Thunder Arizona in Florence can be a dusty, windy and rainy business.

We’ll put all of the most interesting, pretty, unusual or otherwise social-media-use inducing moments we capture on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more of the 2017 installment of the country-music festival on April 6-9.

After you check out who to follow, scroll down to see all the action that already started on Wednesday.

Follow along

Here are the azcentral.com staffers covering the event. Use #cta2017, #countrythunder and #countrythunder2017 to follow along.

Music critic Ed Masley

twitter.com/EdMasley

instagram.com/edmasley/

facebook.com/ed.masley

Reporter Kellie Hwang

twitter.com/KellieHwang

instagram.com/khwang925/

Social-media whiz Melissa Farley

twitter.com/TheMelFarley

instagram.com/officialmelissafarley/

facebook.com/melissafarley

Reporter Garrett Mitchell

twitter.com/rettmitch

instagram.com/rettmitch/

Reporter Kaila White

twitter.com/kailawhite

Videographer Thomas Hawthorne 

instagram.com/thomashawthorne1/

Also make sure to follow azcentral.com:

facebook.com/azcentral/

twitter.com/azcentral

instagram.com/azcentral/

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How people are preparing

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