For 14 hours, Made in America delights

Build a stage for Beyoncé, and they will come.

Keep it up another day, and they'll stick around.

Still, a yearning for Beyoncé defined the second day of this year's Made in America festival, the now four-year-old music extravaganza along the Ben Franklin Parkway curated by the diva's husband, Jay Z.

Even as more than 64,000 turned out Sunday for 32 performers - including big names such as the Weeknd and J. Cole - Beyoncé's radiant Saturday performance still dominated the minds of Sunday's overwhelmingly peaceful crowd.

"Oh, yeah, sure, Big Sean is great," said 23-year-old Yanilda Gonzalez of New York City, lounging on a beach towel as the Detroit rapper performed amid the backdrop of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "But Beyoncé - she's my idol."

But, 14 hours after the five stages along the parkway dimmed on Saturday night, concert-goers were back early Sunday afternoon - clad in American-flag themed shorts, basketball jerseys, and outlandish hats. Some were barely clad at all.

Multiple members of the festival's security said the early part of Sunday's offerings appeared to have a much smaller turnout than Saturday's. But by day's end, as the Weeknd capped off the festival, tens of thousands flooded the area in front of the stage - kicking dust, tossing beer cans, and cheering as they piled in.

The two-day event was considered by many to be a test run, of sorts, for Pope Francis' visit, now less than three weeks away. And while the swelling crowd did present problems, Mayor Nutter said the city responded with solutions.

One of the most pressing complaints Saturday among attendees was simple thirst. As fans camped out for near front-row positions for headliners, many became dehydrated. They refused to give up their spots - but they needed water.

"Look, that's a personal decision," Nutter said Sunday. Plenty of water was available the first day, he said.

Nevertheless, hearing attendees' complaints, the city Water Department crafted a mobile water fountain out of a bike rack overnight, Nutter said.

Austino Mufasa, 22, of Philadelphia, was among those who found relief in the make-shift spout, dunking his head in its splash zone. But moments later, he joined his friends in running toward the stage as Big Sean began to perform.

"It's hard to balance everyone you want to see on all the different stages," Mufasa said. "But I really enjoy it. There's always something going on."

As they did Saturday, densely packed crowds created problems. Navigating the mass of people required willpower, patience, and some well-timed nudges. Some concert-goers in the back grew testy while the rapper Future performed, yelling and cursing as they were crushed against the side of metal railings that separated the crowd from the vendors.

With a few railings nearly toppling, a young man picked one up and laid it on the ground. Others around him offered quick apologies as they tried to snake their way through.

"Our bodies were compressed against [the railings] by people that were bigger than us," said Maya Macon, 22, of Washington.

"Dangerous," said her friend Erica Williams, 21.

Still, Philadelphia police said there were no concert-related arrests or major incidents on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the venue's medical tents stayed busy. By 10 p.m., 176 people had been treated, 36 of whom were transported to hospitals.

The Sunday crowd drew people of all ages and from around the United States - and the world.

Jennifer Daylight, 33, was perhaps among the farthest travelers, hailing from Sydney, Australia.

Daylight was already visiting for the weekend, and decided to buy a ticket for the sold-out event. She and her friend - in accordance with the masses - were wowed by Beyoncé.

"It's great," Daylight said.

"It's very dusty though," she added as she sat alongside others who used bandanas - and even surgical masks - to cover their mouths.

Appropriately for an event sponsored by Budweiser, beer flowed freely throughout most of the day, but as the sun set Sunday, slowly, vendors began crossing options off their menus one-by-one.

That was no matter to Lulu Zayas, one of the festival's youngest attendees. Strapped to her mother's chest, 10-month-old Lulu slept peacefully as her mother, Vivi Zayas, 30, swayed to the music just 100 yards from stage. Both wore matching orange headbands.

"She loves the people and the music," Zayas said of her daughter, laughing. "This isn't even her first festival."

While most concert-goers were in their 20s and 30s, that didn't deter 83-year-old Philadelphia resident Janice Miller from attending. She came to people-watch, she said, but couldn't resist moving her feet to the music.

"This old lady is here sight-seeing, seeing what the young people are doing," Miller said. "All the music they're playing makes you want to dance."

But long before the Weeknd mounted the stage under purple and red lights to a cacophony of excited cheers, Miller had enough.

Though she loved to dance, it was 8 p.m. Too late for her. And anyway, she said, she wanted to beat the crowds.