| Music festivals. I love them!! | | One of my favorite things in all the world is attending festivals in the spring time. It is festival season in my area and we have a festival of some sort every weekend for months. I particularly love the music festivals. This weekend's music festival is one of the top ones around and we really enjoyed the acts this year. We saw Loverboy, Pat Benatar, Blue Oyster Colt, The Guess Who, America, Everclear and several smaller more local bands. While they were all very good, I particularly enjoyed Blue Oyster Colt.This is the list of all the acts that were there. We heard bits of a lot of them but could not possibly have heard them all.
2008 Acts: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Bret Michaels Rock of Love Tour, America, Everclear, The Guess Who, Loverboy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Blue Oyster Cult, kathy mattea, Eve 6, Roger Creager, Firehouse, Seven Mary Three, Quietdrive, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Butch Hancock, The Django Walker Band, Candy Coburn, No Justice, Slaid Cleaves, Jon Vezner, Steve Fromholz, Chris Smither, and Paramount's LaserSpectacular featuring the Music of Pink Floyd.If you could have attended this festival with me, what acts... | |
| | Mattea says Girl Scouts changed her life | | 04/20/2007 4:08 AM, APKathy Mattea said she discovered her love of singing while attending Girl Scouts camp as a kid in West Virginia."I loved the sheer joy of singing simple songs in harmony and in rounds," the 47-year-old country music star told The Charleston Gazette. "I also learned to live in harmony with the land and to have a reverence for nature."Mattea, a native of Cross Lanes, will be the keynote speaker Tuesday for the Girl Scouts Black Diamond Council's annual fundraiser luncheon here.Mattea said she plans to sing and talk about how scouting and music helped her discover what she wanted to do with her life."I can say more in three minutes of singing than in ten minutes of speaking," she said. "The songs facilitate my message."Mattea has won two Grammy awards and has been named female vocalist of the year twice by the Country Music Association. She also won a CMA Single of the Year award for "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses." | |
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