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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation Has Super July Planned for its 48th Free Summer Music Season.

LANCASTER, PA -- Starting with its beloved patriotic concert on July 4, 2010, the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation is offering concertgoers four spectacular Sunday performances. The 48th summer of free, award-winning music on the Long’s Park amphitheater stage begins each Sunday at 7:30 pm.

This year’s annual patriotic concert falls on the Sunday, July 4 holiday. Always the community’s favorite holiday celebration, the evening will again feature The 257th Army Band, former Lancaster City mayor Charlie Smithgall’s historic cannon brigade and a spectacular fireworks display.

Helping to make the July 4 patriotic concert possible is the James Hale Steinman Foundation. Founding cosponsor of the community celebration is the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival.

The Felice Brothers, the exciting folk rock quintet who’ll be returning to this year’s heralded Newport Folk Festival, are coming to Long’s Park July 11. With opener billing on The Dave Matthews Band several times this tour, the quintet infuses their rustic Americana country and roots music with a tinge of a Louisiana accent — a surprising twist for a band that hails from the Catskill Mountains of New York.

This ubiquity has attracted a world following for the group. Their “Yonder Is The Clock” album captured BBC Music’s 2009 Country Album of the Year. London’s The Guardian seconded that nod by declaring The Felice Brothers “among the most exciting prospects in rootsy American music.”

Sponsoring The Felice Brothers’ appearance at Long’s Park will be the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.

Long’s Park concertgoers on July 18 will be in for the real deal when the Benjy Davis Project layers them with lovesick, good-times-a-rollin’ Southern sweetness. With their fourth album, “Lost Souls Like Us,” just hitting store shelves and iTunes in early March, the Benjy Davis Project “meld[s] rock and country into undeniably catchy pop” (Baton Rouge Advocate).

Stepping up to underwrite the free performance of the Benjy Davis Project is LancMarketplace.com.

On July 25 double Grammy-nominee Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion will detonate the Long’s Park amphitheater stage. With their last two releases capturing Grammy nominations as best Latin jazz albums, they have fast become “one of the jazz world’s most exciting bands (All About Jazz).

The legendary conguero-percussionist has been personally honored as Best Jazz/Fusion Percussionist by Drum! Magazine. Wrote Drummers World Magazine, “Sammy is the Cat. He has long been regarded as one of the premier musicians in the world.” “To say the man has chops is an understatement,” declared Latin Beat Magazine.

Cosponsoring legendary conguero-percussionist and his band is Lancaster General Health. Radio sponsor will be WLCH “Radio Centro.”

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 the Arts (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.