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Willie Nelson
Smokey Robinson
Collective Soul
Great American songbook
Motown legend returns
Mainstream songs
2009 release from the Country/Pop icon. American Classic is Willie Nelson's return to the Great American Songbook, a crossover standards album by the man who invented the genre with his landmark, best-selling 1978 album Stardust, which has been certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA. Produced by Tommy LiPuma and featuring guest duet partners Norah Jones on the classic tale of seduction 'Baby It's Cold Outside' and Diana Krall on 'If I Had You.'
Motown legend, Smokey Robinson unleashes a new album of original material featuring guests Carlos Santana, Joss Stone and India.Arie lending their estimable musical talents plus famed graphic artist Shepard Fairey's Studio Number One providing the package art. Smokey's newest album will undoubtedly galvanize new fans as well as longtime admirers as this Motown trailblazer and national treasure is sure to dominate in 2009 as he celebrates a dazzling 50 years in the limelight.
Seven #1 Rock Hits, 4 Platinum Plus albums and 10 million total albums sold, Collective Soul return with their most ambitious album to date, Collective Soul. Recorded in just 45 days in their home studio in Georgia and produced by Ed Roland himself, the album features their most mainstream songs ever recorded. Songs from their last studio album Afterwords were featured in American Idol commercials, The Hills, Woman’s Murder Club, Shark, Celebrity Apprentice, Brothers and Sisters and 90210.
Black Crowes
Juliette Lewis
Pete Yorn/Scarlett Johansson
Thank you to their fans
New solo project
Relationship through duets
‘American Classic’ By Andrew Ryan
‘Before the Frost’ By Andrew Ryan
‘Time Flies When You’re Having Fun’
‘Rabbit’
By Barry Lund
‘Terra Incognita’
By Sherry Snodgrass
By David Hill
‘Break Up’
By Jaime Johnson
TWO LIVE STAGES of music with 28 artists/bands playing original music, folk, classic rock, blues, jazz, and hip hop – something for every musical taste. Saturday evening concerts at the Bottleworks and Cherry stages include headliners Blue Cat Alley, The Diplomats of Solid Sound and Dry Heat. THE FREE FESTIVAL ALSO FEATURES: 40 local and Midwest artists showing paintings, illustration, printmaking, photography, pottery, jewelry, glasswork and sculpture. Included in the exhibit will be work from two artist recovery groups (artists affected by the flood) representing Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. A NEW BO KIDZONE children’s area with music, dance, theater and art making activities for kids under 12. The Kidzone will also feature a New Bo City Market for kids. STREET PERFORMANCES by three dance companies: MoVmnt; Dancing with Scissors; Sisters of the Shifting Sands; A special Theatre Cedar Rapids Altar Boyz preview. Juggling by Doug Sayers. The magic and balloon fun of clowns Sparkles, Mr. Bubbles and Papa Balloon. In addition, look for street artists and musicians performing in and around the festival throughout the two days.
‘I Look to You’
SPECIAL EVENTS/EXHIBITS: Tours of the Bottleworks condominiums; Artworks open house at the Cherry Building; tours of Czech Village/New Bohemia by the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library; A photographic display of the history of New Bohemia by Mark Hunter; A “This Place Matters” portrait event with Ann Kinney of Illusions Photography – have your picture taken with a historic building in the district building you would like saved (an Iowa Department of Economic Main Street sponsored project).
With over 170 million combined albums, singles, and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will quite simply never be eclipsed in the modern era. Whitney's highly anticipated new studio album features a wide array of A-list producers including Stargate, R Kelly, Akon, Eric Hudson & Johnta Austin, Fernando Garabay & Harvey Mason Jr., Tricky Stewart, Swizz Beatz, David Foster and Diane Warren. On September 1, 2009, the Legend, the Icon, the Worldwide Superstar returns with her best work yet.
Location: 905 3rd Street SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – at the Bottleworks and New Bo Park grounds (corner of 3rd Street SE and 10th Avenue SE) in the Czech Village/New Bohemia Cultural District Times: Saturday 10 am – 9:30 pm; Art Fair and New Bo Kidzone open until 5 pm; Evening stages 5 pm – 9:30 pm; Sunday 10 am – 5 pm.
Features 11 new unreleased Black Crowes' studio songs. A second album, titled ...Until The Freeze, will be given away for free exclusively through a unique download code included in Before The Frost... CD.
After four years, two full-length albums and high-profile tours and festival gigs alongside acts like the Killers, Foo Fighters, Muse and Chris Cornell with her roaring rock road show the Licks, Lewis is ready to unveil her new solo project.
Includes eight original compositions by Pete/Scarlett in the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg's recording with Brigitte Bardot. The album re-enacts the tempestuous course of a love affair on the rocks.
WHITNEY HOUSTON
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