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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation
Closing Its 48th Free Summer Music Season with August Laden with
Award-winning Performers.
LANCASTER, PA -- The Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation will
continue to treat its concertgoers to an amazing season of music
with five more Sunday night performances in August. The 48th Long’s
Park Summer Music Series featuring exciting, free music on the Long’s
Park amphitheater stage will showcase an eclectic music selection,
beginning each Sunday night at 7:30 pm.
The final month of the 2010 Long’s Park Summer Music season
opens on August 1 with the hot rockabilly group from the Windy City,
the West Side Winders. They are sure to have concertgoers lovin’
their lyrics and dancing like there’s no tomorrow. “You
haven’t heard rockabilly until you have heard The West
Side Winders,” declared Pipes, cohost of Six String
Bliss podcast. He promised “rockabilly [with] a modern twist
while still keeping true to the legends that came before them.”
Performance sponsor of the West Side Winders’
Long’s Park concert is Hilton Garden Inn Lancaster.
On August 8 Long’s Park concertgoers will discover the magic
that happens when Santana’s former leader vocalist Alex
Ligertwood takes the stage with high-energy, jazz keyboardist
David Garfield. The David Garfield & Alex
Ligertwood Group promises an evening to remember when their
pop and jazz blend with R&B and Latin.
Musical icons in their own right, they give birth to a distinct
and contemporary sound that David Garfield and Alex
Ligertwood have been performing together around the world
for 10 years. Together, they go far beyond the confines of traditional
and smooth jazz, covering everything from sensitive ballads to foot-stomping,
soul classics.
Sponsoring the August 8 performance will be PNC Bank.
August 15 Galway’s music ambassadors will treat Long’s
Park concertgoers to one of the region’s favorite sound flavors
when The Saw Doctors take the amphitheater stage.
The gritty Irish folk-rock band is “one of the world’s
most appealing roots rock outfits,” according to The Washington
Post. Since coming together in 1986 in County Galway,
The Saw Doctors have released 18 top 30 singles in Ireland
with 3 reaching the top of the charts. Their record, I Useta
Lover, became the country’s all-time, best selling single.
In 2008, they received a lifetime achievement award at the Meteor
Ireland Music Awards.
The Saw Doctors’ appearance at Long’s Park
is made possible in part by Weber Advertising & Marketing.
“America’s great blues poet” (Austin American-Statesman)
Chris Smither and The Motivators will be coming to
Long’s Park Sunday, August 22. “A product of the musical
melting pot” (Associated Press), the New Orleans bred singer-songwriter
captured a 2008 Player’s Choice acoustic guitarist award from
Acoustic Guitar Magazine, coming in one down from Eric
Clapton.
Wrote The New York Times of Chris Smither,
“With a weary, well-traveled voice and a serenely intricate
finger-picking style, [he] turns the blues into songs that accept
hard-won lessons and try to make peace with fate.” In 2006,
his song, “Origin of Species” from the critically acclaimed
album, Leave the Lights On, ranked No. 42 on Rolling Stone’s
100 Best Songs. A year later he took home a Boston Music Award for
Outstanding Folk Act.
Helping to bring Chris Smither and The Motivators
to Long’s Park is Wickersham Construction and Engineering,
Inc.
On August 29 C. J. Chenier, “the best living
zydeco singer and accordionist” (Living Blues Magazine),
and his Red Hot Louisiana Band will close the Long’s Park 2010
Summer Music Season on a sizzling high note. With a music tradition
laden with funk and blues, the foot-stomping, dance-inducing music
of the bayou, C. J. Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band
are sure to have their Long’s Park audience on their feet with
“contemporary, turbo-charged dance music” (The Boston
Globe). Led by the consummate showman C. J. Chenier,
the band’s music “remains unparalleled as a party starter”
(Billboard Magazine).
The Long’s Park Summer Music Series is produced and underwritten
by the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation. The award-winning
performances free of charge at Long’s Park, thanks to generous
sponsors, private donors and proceeds of the Labor Day weekend Long’s
Park Art & Craft Festival. Season sponsors are Pennsylvania
College of Art & Design and Susquehanna Bank. Season media sponsors
are WARM 103 and 96.1 WSOX. Weather sponsor is WGAL-TV News 8.
Partial funding has been provided through a grant from the Pennsylvania
Council on theArts (PCA), a state agency funded by an annual state
appropriation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal
agency. PCA supplies funding to nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations,
a unit of government or a school district with arts programming
or services in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Long’s Park concertgoers are invited to bring picnics, blankets
and lawn chairs to the park. A selection of food purveyors will
also be in the park, offering a complete meal’s worth of family
foods and desserts. Long’s Park is an alcohol-free park.
Long’s Park is conveniently located at 1441 Harrisburg Pike
in Lancaster, just off Route 30 across from Park City Center. All
events are free of charge and held rain or shine, except in the
case of dangerously inclement weather.
Additional information and links to musical previews of Long’s
Park’s performers can be found at www.longspark.org
or on Facebook. For details on corporate sponsorships of the Long’s
Park Summer Music Series and to learn how to make individual and
corporate contributions, contact the Long’s Park Amphitheater
Foundation at www.longspark.org.
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