COLLECTIVE SOUL - (past event)

Multi-platinum international recording artists Collective Soul have released a total of 7 studio albums in their 14-year career, have sold over 10 million albums and have had nineteen singles landing in the Billboard charts, seven of those reaching the #1 spot on the magazine’s radio charts. Their infectious anthems have cropped up in TV shows, movies, commercials, soundtracks, and, most importantly, in tireless rotation among all who crave expertly-crafted, hook-laden pop-rock with an edge. Now in the studio recording their eighth album set for release this year, the iconic Collective Soul show no signs of slowing down.

 


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Performing With:

 

SAFETY SUIT

 

Anything—and everything—about SAFETYSUIT can be summed up by the band’s name.

“I think the key word is ‘safety,’” explains singer/guitarist Doug Brown. “The four of us in the band have been friends forever. We feel comfortable around each other. We’re in a safe environment…and that makes us feel free to be who we are. And, if we can inspire that moment or that feeling in our fans, we’ve succeeded.”

Which begins the story of SAFETYSUIT, an extraordinarily talented, musically confident young band that does, in fact, inspire. Their songs capture the grandeur and depth of U2, with an imaginative pop sensibility at its core and a dizzying wall of guitars as its backdrop. “It’s not rocket science,” says Brown. “Quintessential good melody and good lyrics, that’s what makes a song.”

 

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AND RYAN STAR

 

Ryan Star's time is now.

 

As the title of the New York rocker’s Atlantic debut provocatively suggests, Star’s whole life has
been building to this point. The songs on “11:59” play out in real time, the stories spin out in
narratives that resonate with urgency and truth. Star’s often stripped-bare vocals give the songs
an added resonance.

 

“There have been a million hopes and let downs to get here,” Star says. ”I don’t think you
really choose the time as an artist, I think the time chooses you. This album is who I am.” And
now that he’s here, as track “Right Now’ stresses, he is going to seize the moment.

 

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COURTYARD STAGE:

 

The Complaints (Unplugged)
Website: www.thecomplaints.com

 

Gates open at 5:30 p.m. the day of the event.  The main stage act begins at 7 p.m.