By 1 p.m., Lyons Park was jammed and jamming for the 29th Annual Lyons Fiddle Festival.

When East Side Dave Kline got on stage, he looked out at the fields of people and said, “I don’t know if anybody said it official yet, but if you look around, there sure are a lot of you out there. Give yourselves a round of applause because I think you made history today in a record crowd here at the Lyons Fiddle Festival.”

A record breaking 5,786 fiddle enthusiasts attended the festival on Sept. 16.