2008 Main Stage Entertainment:_____________

Purchase Reserved Seating concert tickets starting 9:00am June 14th at the Albany Coastal Farm Store.

   

Thursday July 17th:

CRAIG MORGAN
8:30pm

Free with Paid Admission or

you can purchase reserved seating for an additional $25.00

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Craig Morgan is country music's stealth star. He's had back-to-back #1 singles, massive radio airplay--including country's biggest hit of 2005, solid album sales and a belated nomination in 2006 as the Academy of Country Music's new male vocalist of the year, yet his recognition factor has not quite caught up to the scope of his popularity and his level of success. That is all about to change with his latest CD, Little Bit of Life. Morgan likens his career to a catapult that has been stretched all the way back through hard touring, steady radio airplay and media exposure and is now poised to heave that career forward with projectile force. He has two secret weapons in his arsenal. As a singer, Morgan has a clearly identifiable voice. As a songwriter, he displays a distinct point of view. Little Bit of Life is Morgan’s fourth album and third for the red-hot independent label Broken Bow Records. His previous albums spawned such memorable hits as I Got You, Redneck Yacht Club, and the poignant Almost Home, as well as That’s What I Love About Sunday, which spent five weeks at No. 1 and ended 2005 as country radio’s most played song of the year, surpassing hits by Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, George Strait, Sugarland and Faith Hill, among others. Morgan finished 2005 in the top 10 on Billboard magazine’s top male country artists chart (ahead of Alan Jackson and Josh Gracin) and in the top 20 on the magazine’s overall list of top country artists (besting Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Big & Rich and numerous others).

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 Friday July 18th:

Terri Clark
8:30pm

Free with Paid Admission or

you can purchase reserved seating for an additional $25.00

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Graced with three Platinum Albums, Terri Clark is one of the most unique voices in country music. She is one of very few female country artists who is truly an accomplished guitar player, a rarity in country music. Raised in Alberta, Canada, it was a long road she traveled to reach the heights she has achieved today. Terri Clark was born on Aug. 5, 1968, in Montreal and was raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. She moved to Nashville at age 18 and paid her dues by playing at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, the famous honky-tonk bar across the alley from the Ryman Auditorium. After signing to Mercury Records, she reached No. 3 with her first single, "Better Things to Do," in 1995, followed by hits like "When Boy Meets Girl," a remake of "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and "Now That I Found You." After hitting No. 1 in 1998 with "Easy on the Eyes," Clark downplayed the cowgirl image, but her career momentum faltered. However, in 2003, she rebounded with the spunky hit "I Just Wanna Be Mad." Though she still lives in Nashville, Clark won the Canadian County Music Association Fans' Choice Entertainer of the Year in 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

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Saturday July 19th:

The Guess Who
8:30pm

Free with Paid Admission or

you can purchase reserved seating for an additional $25.00

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The Guess Who, the band that became Canada’s first international rock music superstars, began in 1962 in Winnipeg as Chad Allen & The Reflections. Including members Randy Bachman (guitar), Jim Kale (bass) and Garry Peterson (drums), Chad Allen and the Reflections had become Chad Allen and the Expressions by the time they recorded a cover of “Shakin’ All Over” released by Quality Records in 1965.  The song was a #1 single in Canada and reached #22 in America. Burton Cummings joined the group that same year, replacing the keyboard player and sharing lead vocals. Ironically it was “American Woman” from March of 1970 that gave The Guess Who a #1 single in the U.S., unseating The Beatles for three weeks straight.  The top 10 album, also entitled “American Woman” contained the hits “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” (the B-Side of American Woman”), which also went to #1 in Billboard for three weeks.