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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago Rockabilly on Tap August 1, 2010 at Long’s Park as The West Side Winders Blow into Town.

LANCASTER, PA -- The final month of the 2010 Long’s Park Summer Music season will open on Sunday, August 1, 2010, with a hot rockabilly group from the Windy City. Retro? Hot blues? Rockabilly? Lounge music on steroids? Or as About Country Music.com called it, “Crispy-fried country-rock?? You decide when the West Side Winders take center stage at the Long’s Park amphitheater at 7:30 pm.

Thanks to the Hilton Garden Inn Lancaster, the West Side Winders will be performing for free on the Long’s Park amphitheater stage.

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.”

As Rockabilly Magazine describes it, founder/creator/songwriter Dan Peters “adds hearty vocals and pens all originals.” It’s this guitarist/vocalist, session man and music educator who “wisely expand[s] soloing beyond the familiar Sun vocabulary and instill[s] remarkable, blast-force trio neo-rockabilly with modern sensibility.”

“The West Side Winders are really hot,” proclaimed ThePlanetWeekly.com. Promised Six String Bliss podcast host, Pipes, “They offer rockabilly a modern twist while still keeping true to the legends that came before them. The West Side Winders offer a totally flawless performance that you will not soon forget.”

The West Side Winders got their start in Chicago as The Sidewinders. Changing their name in 2006, smokin’ lead guitarist Dan Peters is joined by bass guitarist Derek Brand and drummer Kyle Olson. Brand was long time bassist of the respected, Chicago-based Nicholas Tremulis, with whom he toured the world and recorded.

The West Side Winders have played all over the Midwest after wooing crowds with performances three years in a row at the Chicago Blues Festival. Their 2006 album, “Snaken Not Stirred” introduced the group to a national audience. Their tour itinerary has now include the East and West coasts and Europe.

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.