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On August 9th, it’s a triple-treat with RICHIE FURAY BAND, THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND AND PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE.  The Festival presents a “Super Saturday” that digs into the fertile soil of the American rock and folk-rock music that flourished in the 1970s, creating a sound that changed the world’s musical landscape.  Many of the musicians in this movement mingled in the studio and on tour and, lucky for us, they still do. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer RICHIE FURAY is a legendary American, singer, songwriter, and guitarist who co-founded Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills and Neil Young, Poco with Jim Messina and Rusty Young and the Souther, Hillman, Furay Band with J.D. Souther and Chris Hillman, penning many of their hits including "Kind Woman," "Picking' Up The Pieces," "A Good Feeling To Know," "A Child's Claim to Fame," and "Falling In Love."

             PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE is an American country-rock band out to prove that “good music is good music no matter when it’s madeor played – and you really can go home again.” The band’s longevity is certainly a testament to the timelessness of their music.  Their 1975 hit single “Amie” has endured as a classic and still gets major airplay today.  Their rich history goes back to Southern Ohio in 1969 where founding members Craig Fuller, George Powell and Tom McGail formed the band and named it after the 19th century woman’s temperance union attempting to clean up a lawless town in the 1939 Errol Flynn western Dodge City.  As Disco began to dominate the airwaves, the band struggled to innovate, bringing Vince Gill onboard in 1978.  His rock- influenced country substituted saxophone for the pedal steel guitar and the group enjoyed their biggest success as Firin’Up’s first single “Let Me Love You Tonight,” reached No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary Charts. Pure Prairie League has reunited to treat us to music that sounds as good today as it did when they first performed. “People come to hear the music the way it was played back then,” Fuller asserts. “We may have improved upon the fidelity, but when we do a song off one of our records, we do it just like it was recorded.” From their first LP in 1973, to their powerful stage presence today, THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND has played countless concert venues around the world blending country, Southern rock, blues and rock and roll.  Over 30 years later, hits like “Heard it in a Love Song,” “Can’t You See,” and “Fire on the Mountain” continue to be played on classic rock and country radio, and the band has never stopped touring. As lead vocalist Doug Gray says “As we’ve become older, our Southern heritage seems to come out even more.  But no matter how old we get, we can still rock your socks off!”   

All tickets are $39.95. Gates will open at 4:30pm.   

The second week of The Festival starts off on Thursday, August 14 with THE WAIFS, a folk rock band from Australia, whose inspirational tale of self-determined international success started when sisters Donna and Vikki Simpson met Josh Cunningham in a remote corner of the Western Australian Dessert some 15 years ago.  Their mobile cottage industry of campfire-crafted songs and independently recorded, gold-selling CDs slowly reached critical mass in Australia between 1996 and 2000, while their captivating on-stage chemistry spilled into a contagious festival following through Europe and North America. Their 2003 album Up All Night reached double platinum status in Australia, and the band won four ARIA Awards. The band so impressed Bob Dylan when they supported him on his 2003 Australian tour that he asked them to join him on his North American tour, including a gig at the Newport Folk Festival. Their latest release, sundirtwater, reaches a new benchmark of worldly eclecticism, without surrendering the homegrown and unaffected heart and soul that has made the Waifs one of Australia’s most loved and admired musical exports. Headlining the evening is one of the premier American roots-rock bands, the BODEANS.  Frontmen Kurt Neuman and Sammy Llanas forged a singing-songwriting partnership and a signature sound based on heartfelt lyrics, passionate harmonies and ringing guitars more than 20 years ago.  That sound first surfaced on the group’s critically acclaimed, T-bone Burnett produced 1986 debut album Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams, propelling the band into the national spotlight as it broke into Billboard’s Top 100, aided by a touring slot with U2, an appearance on Robbie Robertson’s self-titled debut solo album, and being named “Best New Band” by Rolling Stone magazine. In 1993 the Top 10 hit “Closer To Free” was popularized as the theme song for the TV show Party of Five and in 1996 it earned an ASCAP award as one of the most played songs on the radio that year.  Recently back in the studio, their 2008 release, Still, displays the simple lyrics, passionate harmonies and guitars that are the backbone of the BoDean sound.  There is a complimentary microbrew tasting prior to the concert, starting when the gates open at 6:00pm, for ticket holders over the age of 21.  All tickets are $32.95, concert starts at 7:30pm.