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Press Information for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Long’s Park Opening its 2010 Summer Music Season June 6 with One of Rolling Stone’s Best New Bands of 2010.

LANCASTER, PA -- The Long’s Park Summer Music Series will open its 2010 season of free music with the powerful vocals and blazing Hammond B-3 organ of fearless front woman, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals June 6, 2010. One of the country’s up-and-coming indie bands, they will bring their funky blues, soul and rock to Long’s Park for a rousing Sunday night performance at 7:30 pm.

Sponsoring the first concert of the 2010 season will be the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era.

Grace Potter and The Nocturnals “play blues-based rock with glorious passion,” proclaimed USA Today. “Potter’s voice earns its inevitable comparisons with Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams,” they added. No doubt this is what caught Sarah McLachlin’s attention when she invited Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to be a part of the 2010 Lilith Fair.

Since taking home a Jammy for Best New Groove in 2006, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals have been making a splash. The Vermont-based group just appeared on Ellen. They also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Good Morning America. Plus, they have opened for the likes of Dave Matthews, The Black Crows and Gov’t Mule.

“Poised for great things” (Rolling Stone) might be an understatement as they introduce a new album, are featured on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie soundtrack with a live cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and join Emmylou Harris, Mary J. Blige and Sheryl Crow on Sarah McLachlan’s acclaimed Lilith Fair tour.

Their credentials continue. Apologies from their “This is Somewhere” album was heard on All My Children, One Tree Hill, Kyle XY and Brothers & Sisters. Their single, Falling or Flying, was featured on the hit drama Grey’s Anatomy and showcased on the show’s “Volume 3” soundtrack.

Frontwoman Grace Potter is lead vocalist and keyboardist for the quintet. Scott Tournet performs guitar, slide guitar and harmonica, and Matthew Burr is on drums. Catherine Popper is the band’s new bass player. Benny Yurco, who plays with Tournet and Burr in Blues & Lasers, a side, experimental rock project, performs on rhythm guitar.

The 48th annual Long’s Park Summer Music Series is produced and underwritten by the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation. The 13 weeks of award-winning, live performances are presented 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. Building sponsor is Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc.

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.