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.

Scroll past Day 1 to see who to follow.

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VIDEOS: COUNTRY THUNDER ARIZONA 2017 MUSIC FESTIVALChris Young talks Country Thunder Arizona | 6:35

Chris Young talks Country Thunder Arizona and more with KMLE Country 107.9 DJs on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Credit: KMLE

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VIDEOS: COUNTRY THUNDER ARIZONA 2017 MUSIC FESTIVALLOCASH surprises Country Thunder Arizona campers with concert | 3:08

Country-music duo LOCASH played a campsite concert for the winners of a KMLE Country 107.9 radio station contest at Country Thunder Arizona on Thursday, April 6, 2017.

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VIDEOS: COUNTRY THUNDER ARIZONA 2017 MUSIC FESTIVALCatching up with singer Terri Clark at Country Thunder Arizona | 4:40

Singer Terri Clark talks country music and her radio station before she plays Country Thunder Arizona in Florence on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Patrick Breen/azcentral.com.

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VIDEOS: COUNTRY THUNDER ARIZONA 2017 MUSIC FESTIVALWhat you HAVE to bring to a desert music festival | 1:10

Kaila White, a reporter with azcentral.com, explains the essentials one should take if going to an outdoor music festival in the desert such as Country Thunder or Coachella. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com

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VIDEOS: COUNTRY THUNDER ARIZONA 2017 MUSIC FESTIVALKMLE morning team nominated for Personality of the Year | 0:42

The KMLE morning team (Chris Matthews, Nina Espero and Badger Gabe) are nominated for the Personality of the Year Award from the Academy of Country Music. They discuss the nomination.
Tom Tingle/azcentral.com

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  • Chris Young talks Country Thunder Arizona

    Chris Young talks Country Thunder Arizona

  • LOCASH surprises Country Thunder Arizona campers with concert

    LOCASH surprises Country Thunder Arizona campers with concert

  • Catching up with singer Terri Clark at Country Thunder Arizona

    Catching up with singer Terri Clark at Country Thunder Arizona

  • What you HAVE to bring to a desert music festival

    What you HAVE to bring to a desert music festival

  • KMLE morning team nominated for Personality of the Year

    KMLE morning team nominated for Personality of the Year

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/

Find us @azcentral, by searching azcentral in Snapchat.

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