Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Nelson join StageCoach Festival
The fest will be held May 5-6 in Indio, Cal. Other name artists announced Wednesday are Pat Green, Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Nickel Creek, Raul Malo and Ricky Skaggs.
Artists will perform in four distinct performance areas including the main stage, an alt.-country stage, a bluegrass stage and a storytelling area making for two days of music.
In addition to music, there will be a wide variety of art including country music memorabilia, antique cowboy gear, rawhide sculptures, western heritage installations and Americana folk arts. Music fans can also participate in saddle making, blacksmiths, rodeo gear, lasso and trail boss seminars.
The line-up is:
Saturday, May 5, 2007: George Strait, Alan Jackson, Sara Evans, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Robert Earl Keen, Richie Furay, Chris Hillman & Herb Pederson, David Serby, Earl Scruggs, Nickel Creek, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Grascals, The John Cowan Band, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Riders in the Sky, Red Steagall, Waddie Mitchell, Sons of the San Joaquin, Cowboy Nation.
Sunday, May 6, 2007: Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Sugarland, Gary Allan, Pat Green, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Raul Malo, Junior Brown, Drive by Truckers, Alejandro Escovedo, Railbenders, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Marty Stuart, The Del McCoury Band, Abigail Washburn with the Sparrow Quartet featuring Ben Sollee, Casey Driessen and Bela Fleck, The Flatlanders (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock), Garrison Keillor, Baxter Black, Cowboy Celtic, Don Edwards, and Katy Moffat.
Tickets for STAGECOACH will go on sale Saturday, Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. (PT) via TicketMaster charge-by-phone lines at (213) 480-3232 and at all TicketMaster retail ticket centers or online at www.ticketmaster.com. A 2-day pass is $165.
The fest is being put on by the same outfit that has been so successful with the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which is held at the same venue.
More news for Brooks & Dunn
- 01/07/25: Brooks + Dunn, Aldean join for one night only - at Fenway
- 11/25/24: Brooks leaves American Country Countdown
- 01/22/24: Brooks & Dunn Reboot again
- 08/03/23: Urban, Brooks, Murphy to join Nashville Songwriters Hall
- 04/27/23: McEntire, Brooks & Dunn release acoustic "If You See Him, If You See Her"
- 01/23/23: Brooks & Dunn REBOOTS for '23
- 02/28/22: Brooks & Dunn reboots
- 06/14/21: B&D relaunch Reboot tour
CD reviews for Brooks & Dunn
Brooks and Dunn return with the duo's first studio album in a dozen years. Sort of. That's because they revisit a dozen of their hits (leaving a bunch behind) with contemporary country singers. "Reboot" is a cross between a tribute album and a redo, and overwhelmingly, the idea works. The general idea is that the guest artist will trade lines with Brooks or Dunn.
One could surmise that Brooks & Dunn did this kind of album to introduce these chestnuts in an attempt to ...
Brooks & Dunn are the most popular duo in country history racking up lots of hits and awards, but they amicably called it a career with plans to go their separate ways after a farewell 2010 tour. This two-CD set contains 30 songs, but aside from 2 new songs, there's not much reason to buy this set. The quality certainly is there as 20 of the songs reached the top of the chart.
The new songs - both were released as singles - were Honky Tonk Stomp, featuring ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and Indian Summer. ...
If your idea of a cowboy is Cowboy Troy and the guys from Big & Rich, then sure, this new Brooks & Dunn album is named appropriately. For it's the city-bred hat crowd that the majority of these songs are aimed at or at least the women that married them. Their last couple of albums saw them gain some critical acclaim with songs like the stirring "Believe," but there's nothing that immediately memorable here. Instead, we get the fuzzy current events theology of, "God ...
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