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Press Information for Benjy Davis Project

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Southern Rock Band Bringing its Louisiana Sound to Long’s Park July 18, 2010.

LANCASTER, PA -- There’s no mistaking it. Long’s Park concertgoers will be in for the real deal when the Benjy Davis Project layers them with lovesick, good-times-a-rollin’ Southern sweetness July 18, 2010. Nothing could make their uplifting performance more soaring than the fact that it’s free as part of the 2010 Long’s Park Summer Music Series. The jangly jam band will take the stage Sunday night at 7:30 pm.

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

Founded in 2001, the folk-rock quartet includes cofounders, Louisiana singer-songwriter amd guitarist Benjy Davis and drummer/percussionist Mic Capdevielle. Since coming together, The Project has released four albums. With their fourth album, “Lost Souls Like Us” which just hit store shelves and iTunes in early March, the Benjy Davis Project continues to “meld rock and country into undeniably catchy pop” (Baton Rouge Advocate).

The Benjy Davis Project has toured extensively in the South, including seven performances at New Orleans’ annual Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest and countless college performances. They have also performed with Sister Hazel, Robert Randolph, Buckwheat Zydeco and others. Wherever they perform, “Benjy Davis Project shows off all their different faces from country to blues to straight up rock and roll,” reported Thisismodern.net.

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.