Walker, MN ROCKIN’ 18 @kbo',#'."(&&/ @kd['.#(&"(&&/ MAIN STAGE: MAIN STAGE: Wednesday June 17th Wednesday July 15th Pre-Jammin Country Party Boss Grant as Johnny Cash, The Roosters, CeedZWdY[Fh[`WcFWhjo Haz Beenz & Indian Country _dj^[IWbeed<[Wjkh_d]0 >W_hXWbb THURSDAY Kenny Rogers Thursday July 16th Phil Vassar ''0&& # @ekhd[o 32 Below /0&& # I^[hob9hem Flynnville Train -0&& # AWdiWi Crystal Shawanda +0&& # <e]^Wj )0&& # P[Z#B[ff[b_d FRIDAY Jason Aldean Friday July 17th Little Big Town ''0&& # @kZWiFh_[ij Shooter Jennings /0&& # M^_j[idWa[ -0&& # B_jW<ehZ Honky Tonk Tailgate +0&& # If_d:eYjehi Party ‘09 )0&& # I^eej_d]IjWh Bomshel Saturday July 18th SATURDAY ''0&& # O[i Montgomery Gentry /0&& # 7i_W Rodney Atkins -0&& # J^_dB_ppo Jason Michael Carrollol +0&& # =hWdZ<kda Collin Raye HW_bheWZ )0&& # J^kdZ>[hIjhkYa Restless Hearta t *Schedule times and lineup are subject to change without notice. *Schedule and lineup are subject to change without notice. J^khiZWo"@kd['. <h_ZWo"@kd['/ A;DDOHE=;HI @7IED7B:;7D For over 50 years, Kenny Rogers has delivered Raised in Georgia by his mom, Jason spent summers memorable songs that cross genres of rock, pop in Florida with his dad, where he learned early to and country. Before superstardom, he performed play guitar. After performing on the southeastern with the First Edition, boasting million-sellers like Ruby, seaboard for seven years, his sound, inspired by Don’t Take Your Love to Town. A three-time Grammy George Strait, Alabama and Hank Williams Jr., helped winner with numerous country music awards, a land a record contract. Aldean has rocketed to lifetime achievement award, over 70 charted singles stardom behind his two platinum albums, 2005’s Jason including 18 number ones, Rogers has also hosted 12 TV specials and performed Aldean and 2007’s Relentless. The records produced six Top 10 Country singles duets with some of country’s biggest stars. Today, he lends his celebrity to a including the #1 smash, Why. She’s Country, the lead single off his new album series of concerts, films, television specials and a fast food restaurant. Kenny Wide Open, hit #2 earlier this year. Rogers is an icon, a Hall-of-Famer and one of the biggest names in music worldwide. B?JJB;8?=JEMD Formed in 1998, the quartet’s original members-Karen F>?BL7II7H Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jim Westbrook and Virginia-born Vassar debuted in the late 1990s, co- Phillip Sweet, rely on harmonies that allow all four writing singles for country artists like Tim McGraw, Jo members to alternate as lead singers. Their self-titled Dee Messina, and Alan Jackson. In 1999, he was debut was released in 2002 where it produced two named ASCAP’s Country Songwriter of the Year and minor singles. By 2005, the group signed Clint Black’s signed with Arista Nashville as a recording artist. In indie label, Equity Music Group, where their second 2000 his first album produced five hit singles on the album, The Road to Here, went platinum in the USA, producing consecutive Top Billboard’s country charts and was certified gold in the Ten singles on the country charts in Boondocks and Bring It On Home. To date, USA. After three more albums, he left Arista for Universal South in 2006. His next the group has released three albums and charted 11 songs on the Billboard album, Prayer of a Common Man, was released in early 2008. Vassar’s albums Hot Country Songs charts. have produced 18 singles (two #1’s, & eight in the Top 10) on the Billboard Hot . Country Songs charts. I>EEJ;H@;DD?D=I Waylon Albright “Shooter” Jennings is the only son )(8;BEM of country music legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi 32 Below brings a new age of country music to the Colter. Touring with his parents, he learned to play fans, and people love what they hear. With a musical drums, piano, and guitar and sat in with his dad’s style all their own, 32 Below delivers true life songs for band. Living in L.A. as an adult, he fronted rock bands the working class. With the release of its fourth album, (Guns N Roses as Axel Rose’s replacement). In 2005 Stopping the Machine, 32 Below is crossing the genres Jennings debut album, Put the “O” Back in Country, of country and rock. Playing 150-200 shows a year produced a hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, Fourth of July. Other Midwest and Southeast has helped the band move albums include: Electric Rodeo, Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06 (both 2006), and over 15,000 albums to date. The Wolf (2007). He has a two-year old daughter, Alabama Gypsy Rose, with girlfriend Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos). <BODDL?BB;JH7?D Flynnville Train music draws on country, hard rock >EDAOJEDAJ7?B=7J; and blues inspirations. Vocalist Brian Flynn and his brother Brent (guitar) form the band’s core, which F7HJOÉ&/ also features Tim Beeler (bass), Tommy Bales (drums) Three of country music’s favorite young artists join and Tombstone Slim (guitar).Encouraged early forces for the “Honky Tonk Tailgate Party ‘09” tour. in their career by Richard Young of the Kentucky Mark Wills, a multi-platinum selling country music star Headhunters, Toby Keith heard the band and signed with eight top 10 hits including Don’t Laugh At Me, them to his Show Dog Record imprint. Their self-titled album debuted on will be alongside Jeff Bates and Trent Willmon. Bates September 11, 2007, producing two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country has two critically acclaimed albums—Rainbow Man Songs charts, Last Good Time and Nowhere Than Somewhere. in 2003 and Leave The Light On in 2006—plus seven hit singles including The Love Song and Long, Slow Kisses. Willmon captured country music audiences with songs like Beer Man and Dixie Rose Deluxe’s. Together, they might be one 9HOIJ7BI>7M7D:7 of the highlights of the weekend. CMT documented her rise to fame in Crystal: Living the Dream, which aired in February 2008. Signed to RCA Records in 2007, her debut single, You Can 8ECI>;B Let Go, was released last year, charting in both her Country duo Bomshel Buffy Lawson and Kristy O. are native Canada and the USA. Her first album, Dawn like two sticks of dynamite. Together, their sound grabs of a New Day, debuted at #2 on the Canadian country music by its roots and jerks it into the 21st Country Albums chart, and #16 on the Billboard Century. Lawson is one of Nashville’s most in-demand Top Country Albums chart. It is the highest charted album by a full-blooded demo singers and one of its riskiest songwriters. Native American country artist in the Sound Scan era. Kristy is a stage-diving fiddler who makes her bow sing sweet and mournful or shreds it with lightning ferocity. Bomshel’s sound combines Nashville song craft, rock dynamics and funk rhythms, all served up with a steel-magnolia spirit. IWjkhZWo"@kd[(& Moondance Jammin Country Fest 9EBB?DH7O; CEDJ=EC;HO=;DJHO Collin Raye debuted on the American country music Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry’s journey into scene in 1991 with the release of his debut album All the front ranks of American music has been one of I Can Be, the first of four consecutive albums to be the most gratifying sagas of the past decade. Their certified platinum in the U.S. Fourteen of his songs road to gold and platinum albums, CMA and ACM went Top 10 between 1991-96; 23 of his singles have awards, a Grammy nomination and highly successful reached the Top 10 overall. 2001’s Can’t Back Down tours has been paved both with musical integrity and was his first album that did not produce a Top 40 with an abiding respect for the people and the genre country hit, and he did not record another studio album until 2005’s Twenty they represent. In their 10th year on the national stage, Montgomery Gentry’s Years and Change, which was released on an independent label. Four of impressive legacy includes more than 20 charted singles (16 Top 20’s), with five Raye’s singles have reached Number One on the Billboard country music number ones, ACM Top New Vocal Duo or Group in 1999, CMA’s Duo of the Year charts: Love, Me, In This Life, My Kind of Girl and I Can Still Feel You. Raye has in 2000, and the American Music Award for Favorite New Artist the same year. also recorded a total of 11 studio albums; his most recent album, Never Going Back, will be released this year. HE:D;O7JA?DI Rodney Atkins journey to the top of charts began in 1997 when he with Curb Records. Atkins charted his H;IJB;II>;7HJ Often compared to The Eagles, Restless Heart has first single on the Billboard country charts that year (In become of country music’s most popular bands. a Heartbeat). His next entry on the charts wasn’t until Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the band saw late 2002, with the Top 40 single Sing Along. The five- considerable crossover success in both country music, year break could have de-railed his career, but Atkins pop and adult contemporary formats. Together in landed his first Top Five hit on the country music charts 2009, the band will perform with its most popular in 2003, with the single Honesty (Write Me a List). He followed with seven more line-up - guitarist Greg Jennings, bassist Paul Gregg, singles, including five number ones (If You’re Going Through Hell, Watching You, piano player Dave Innis, drummer John Dittrich and singer Larry Stewart.