Over the years Bob Bell at Wildwood usually waits until January or Febuary to announce that year's Wildwood schedule and that's when you can start making reservations but he announced next years Poco dates on Friday and Saturday night last week.
Although he wasn't specific about who might join Rusty, Jack, Michael and Rick next October for the 50th anniversary shows (except for saying that Richie would be there), there must be something very interesting going on because for the first time he was taking refundable deposits for those shows already. He wasn't even willing to announce the final price of the 2 nights because the plans haven't been completed yet. My experience with Bob over the years is that he's not the most excitable guy so if he's willing to change up the purchase process this much I've got a feeling that it could be a very special weekend.
On Friday night 80 people made reservations for 2018 and the crowd was even bigger on Saturday so you can expect that a number of tickets were sold that night as well.
I only point this out to let you know that if you're thinking of going next year you may want to contact Wildwood asap so you won't get shut out.
If you've never been there for a Poco weekend, 2018 may be the year that you want to make reservations and make them soon. We made our reservations for both nights. I don't think that you want to miss this one.
Marc-