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JOAN JETT, Colbie Caillat, Big & Rich on tap for Elmwood Park this summer
from: roanoke.com
by Tad Dickens
Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee JOAN JETT will play the amphitheater at Elmwood Park on Aug. 20.
Jett and her band, The BLACKHEARTS, are among three hit-making acts on the Budweiser Summer Series, announced on Thursday morning in a news release from Downtown Roanoke Inc., the city of Roanoke and event promoter Big Lick Entertainment.
Country act Big & Rich is scheduled for a June 5 show. Pop singer/songwriters Colbie Caillat and Christina Perri play the park on July 28.
Jett made the Rock Hall, in Cleveland, on April 18. The induction put a punctuation mark on a career that started with the all-female rock 'n' roll band The RUNAWAYS and blasted off with a solo career that included such hits as "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and "Crimson and Clover." The latter two songs were No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart.
According to recent concert reviews, Jett is still an act to see. In July 2014, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch wrote that she and her band "played terrific hard rock that had crunchy guitars and punchy drumming tied to a relentless beat that made you want to get up even when you didn't know the song."
The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, wrote after an August 2014 show that time and again Jett proved "she deserves her crown as the undisputed queen of rock 'n' roll."
At both shows, she played music from her most recent album, "Unvarnished."
Caillat and Perri bring hits of their own to "The Girls Night Out, Boys Can Come Too" tour. Caillat's 2007 song "Bubbly" was a major earworm and propelled debut CD "Coco" to hit status. She and Jason Mraz won a Grammy in 2007 with the song "Lucky," for best pop collaboration with vocals. Caillat returned to the Billboard top 20 with her 2014 album, "Gypsy Heart."
Perri's single "A Thousand Years," part of the soundtrack for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1," and her 2014 single, "Human," both peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard pop chart. Her "Jar of Hearts" got traction when it was played on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance."
Big & Rich first found country music success in 2004 with their song, "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)." They parted ways about 2007 after charting their first No. 1 country song, "Lost In This Moment," but have reunited with two albums, 2012's "Hillbilly Jedi" and 2014's "Gravity."
It is shaping up to be a relatively busy season at the recently renovated Elmwood. Punch Brothers and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn will also perform there this summer, in a July 14 Jefferson Center production. |
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