Celebrate Christmas With Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles
Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles will host the “CMA Country Christmas” with music, memories, and stories of the season from some of country music’s biggest stars. Read more on antiMUSIC
Montgomery Gentry Honored With Playground
Montgomery Gentry got together with associates from The Home Depot this past Wednesday to build a custom playground designed by KaBOOM! at the Booker T Washington Academy in Lexington, KY. The playground was built in their honor as part of the ACM/Home Depot Humanitarian Award they received this past April at the 45th Annual ACM […] Read more on Great American Country
Nettles to host ‘CMA Country Christmas’
Jennifer Nettles is announced as the host of the upcoming CMA Country Christmas . Read more on Digital Spy
George Strait Tickets – Another Summerfest to Celebrate
George Strait has consistently been one of the top-selling country music artists to grace the Nashville scene over the last few decades, and it’s only fitting that this contemporary country icon should land a slot as the first headliner at the world’s largest music festival. Summerfest, heralded as the largest music festival by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999, is the event of the year for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it has just been announced that Strait will perform at next year’s event, which will take place from June 25 to July 5, 2009.
The annual Summerfest event took form in 1968, when then-Mayor Maier started the festival in an attempt to bring pride and attention to Milwaukee’s downtown. Summerfest came about after Maier was inspired by a visit to Oktoberfeset in Munich, Germany, and the “Milwaukee World Festival,” which eventually turned into “Summerfest,” took off from there.
The incredible George Strait will take his fun-loving country music act to the big stage (or one of them, anyway) next summer at Milwaukee’s 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park for the 10-day event, performing alongside all the big names in the music industry. Last year’s list of performers included LeAnn Rimes, Gnarls Barkley, Little Big Town, Three Dog Night and more, and Summerfest’s upcoming lineup is sure to promise just as many stellar acts to perform on one of the event’s 12 stages, including the 23,000 seat Marcus Amphitheater for headlining acts such as George Strait.
Before he was headlining the world’s biggest music affairs, the outstanding vocalist Strait was toying around with rock ‘n’ roll music in a garage band as a teenager in Pearsall, Texas, where he was born and raised in the 1950s and ’60s. After graduating from high school, Straight enrolled in college but dropped out and married his high school love, also enlisting in the Army. Stationed in Hawaii, Straight started playing gigs with an Army-sponsored country band called Rambling Country, and by the time he left the Army in 1975 the young Texan was left with a mouthful of music he couldn’t quite spit out. Straight spent a short span of time at Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, studying agriculture while developing the makings of his own country band Ace in the Hole. Ace in the Hole furthered George Strait’s music dream, but ultimately he was signed onto MCA Records as a solo country artist in 1980, putting his name on the map for the first time with the hit single “Unwound” in 1981. As soon as the country crooner touched his feet down on Nashville soil with “Unwound,” the hits started flooding in. Strait breezed through the rest of the ’80s with smash singles such as “If You’re Thinking You Want a Stranger (There’s One Coming Home)” and “Fool Hearted Memory,” diving right into the ’90s with “I Cross My Heart,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Heartland,” “Blue Clear Sky” and “True.”
These days, George Strait is still burning up the country music charts, also making hearts skip a beat with his crooked smile and gentle nature. Strait has met screaming crowds with George Strait tickets onstage armed with nothing but a microphone and a guitar, singing the peaceful country summer nights away with his sweet down home anthems. The country music icon most recently released his new single “River of Love” at the 2008 CMA Awards Show, where he was honored with the Single of the Year Award for the hit song “I Saw God Today,” also bringing home top honors for Album of the Year with Troubadour, taking his grand total of CMA Awards to 22. This longtime country legend is nowhere near retirement, so check out http://www.stubhub.com/george-strait-tickets to get concert tickets to an upcoming George Strait show!
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