St. Peter’s Hospital, of Helena, Montana is giving away a pair of tickets to see Willie Nelson and Family on September 3, 2010, at Big Sky, Montana. Winners will also win accommodations at Hungley Lodge, and transportation to and from concert.
Click here to go to registration page to enter the contest.
Radio disc jockeys Crook & Chase are sending one lucky winner and guest to see the legendary Willie Nelson perform at the award-winning Greek Theatre in Los Angeles!
No purchase necessary. Contest ends August 30, 2010. Here is link to contest
One Grand Prize winner will receive : A roundtrip airfare for two to Los Angeles, CA, two nights hotel accommodations, two VIP Room passes, and two tickets to the Willie Nelson concert.
Willie Nelson: singer, songwriter, guitar player, actor, author, poet, activist, humanitarian, live in concert in Atlantic City:
Date: Friday, August 6th, 2010
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Time: 9:00 PM
Price: $85, $65, $55
Venue: Circus Maximus Theater
Reservations: 1-800-745-3000
For more information about Willie Nelson, please visit www.willienelson.com
www.californiachronicle.com
By Mike Kerwick
At 77 years young, Willie Nelson has some mojo. During his two local dates, the country music master is out to show he can do amazing things with a guitar dangling from his neck.
TELL ME MORE: For those wondering if the ol’ man is still busy …
A few weeks ago, Nelson held his annual Fourth of July picnic in Texas. A few months ago, he released a new album. And just recently, the Library of Congress announced it was honoring Nelson by including his music in the National Recording Registry.
Nelson toured the Midwest and South earlier this year, but now makes his way East for another run of shows. The country music legend opened up for John Fogerty at the PNC Bank Arts Center a few years ago. This tour he’s the headliner. His Radio City show will include a performance by the Levon Helm Band.
Radio City Music Hall
1260 Sixth Ave.
Manhattan, NY
212- 247-4777 or www.radiocity.com
$49.50 $59.50, $69.50, $89.50 and $129.50.
Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
100 South St.
Morristown, NJ; 973-539-8008 or www.mayoarts.org
$72, $82, $92 and $100.
The Luhrs Center welcomes country idol, WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY, for this special performance of all his greatest hits spanning several decades. He is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. Now in his 70s, he continues to record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk, and popular music.
During his extensive 50 year career, Willie Nelson has written hundreds of songs many of which were made famous by other stars. Some of his greatest songs include “Always on my mind” “On the Road Again” and “Crazy”.
The nTelos Wireless Pavilion, in Portsmouth, Virginia is celebrating its 10th anniversary with $10 lawn tickets to see Willie Nelson & Family, BB King, with Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real, Counting Crows and otherr shows, including 70′s Soul Jam featuring The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes & Blue Magic Family Show; Slightly Stoopid & Cypress Hill with Collie Buddz; George Jones and more.
To find out all the bands, and to get tickets visit:
nTelos Wireless Pavilion’s TicketMaster.com page
This is Willie Nelson at Redrocks in 2008.
Don’t forget! Tickets just went on sale to the WN&F show at Red Rocks on Labor Day Weekend, 9/5/2010. Be there, or be square.
Willie Nelson nestled in between the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, yeah that’s about right.
RedRocks has a live web cam.
http://www.redrocksonline.com/pages/media/webcam.html
RedRocks by day:
Thanks to Kelly from Austin — she knows how I love to see Willie Nelson’s name in lights and on billboards. I’m thinking of making a coffee table book. But really, thanks Kelly for your pictures from your excellent adventure following Willie Nelson and Family around Texas.
Thanks so much to Pat/Miss Tex of Texas for sending me pictures from the Willie Nelson & Family Show at Whitewater on the Horseshoe. Looks like a beautiful place.
Photo thanks to: www.brooklynvegan.com, from the WN&F show in 2008.
American legend and artist, Willie Nelson & Family returns to Radio City Music Hall on July 28. He will be joined by special guest The Levon Helm Band.
Willie Nelson is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. Since bursting onto the country music landscape in the 1960s, Nelson remains an icon in American popular culture today. He continues to tour and has performed in concerts and fundraisers with other major musicians, and record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk, and popular music. Nelson’s 2010 U.S. tour kicked off last month to support the release of his new album, Country Music.
Levon Helm, legendary American rock musician and drummer (and often vocalist) for The Band will be Willie Nelson & Family’s special guest for the evening.
Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-style voice, and powerful drumming style highlighted on many of the The Band’s recordings, such as “The Weight”, “Up on Cripple Creek”, “Ophelia” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. His 2007 solo album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award® for “Best Traditional Folk Album” in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
For ticket information: www.WillieNelson.com
Watch out for Willie Doll. He loves seeing Willie Nelson & Family at Radio City
Janis picked me up at the Austin airport at 11:00 p.m tonight., and she gave me a tour through downtown Austin, which looked very beautiful at midnight, with the rain and the fog softening everything and no traffic.
We went by Ming’s Cafe, where Paula Nelson was scheduled to play, but we got there after midnight and they were closed.
No problem, though, we went next door to Kerby Lane for a late night snack. The place was packed with young twenty-somethings – where do those young kids get all their energy anyway.
We are so excited about the Willie Nelson and Family show tomorrow night at the Austin Music Hall! Also scheduled to perform are Paula Nelson, Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, and Billy Bob Thornton and the Box Masters.
It feels great to be back in Texas, with a couple of Willie Nelson and Family shows to look forward to!
The Patsy Cline Theater
photo sent by Christian Schweiger
Excitement continues to grow in Winchester, Virginia, as it gets closer to the official dedication of the Patsy Cline Theater and Willie Nelson and Family Concert on October 29, 2009.
I spoke with Christian Schweiger, one of the promoters of the event, in Winchester, where he is working hard on final touches for the dedication and concert. The whole town wants to make sure that Willie, his band and crew feel welcome. “We want to make sure everything is right for the band,’ said Christian. ”We want the sound to be good, I want to make sure Budrock’s happy with the lighting.’
I asked Christian about how the naming the theater after Patsy Cline evolved.
”We have a big love for Patsy Cline in Winchester, of course,” he said. “The local high school was built in 1923, and was named after John Handley, a judge from Pennsylvania who fell in love with the town, and gave money to the town. And they used his money to do a $70 million renovation at the school.
As they completed different projects, they started naming things, like the athletic fields were named after someone. Then, when they started on the theater, Patsy’s Cline’s name came up, because she had attended the school, and had performed on the theater’s stage, at different talent shows. Patsy lived right around the corner from the school, and worked at a drug store nearby.”
And how did Willie Nelson become a part of the dedication of the theater?
“Winchester has a big appreciation of Willie Nelson. This is not Willie Nelson’s first concert in Winchester — he performed here in 1966, during our annual Apple Blossom Festival. People in Winchester love Willie Nelson, and they know the nexus between Willie and Patsy, with the song, ‘Crazy’. For years, for 20 years, people have been talking about trying to get Willie Nelson back to Winchester. “
“Then, as the dedication was being planned with this beautiful theater, we thought this was the right time to reach out to Willie and William Morris, and invite him back. We wanted to let them know that we had this proper setting, that was fitting for Willie to perform in, we were ready for him and we would like him to come back. And we are very thrilled that they agreed to it.’
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Historical Winchester
Christian explained that the dedication ceremony and the Willie Nelson and Family Concert are part of fundraising efforts for the Winchester Education Foundation, and will help raise funds for academic programs, scholarships, athletic equipment and uniforms and other projects to benefit the students.
According to Christian, the dedication ceremonies will include the presentation of the Key to the City to Willie Nelson by Winchester Mayor Elizabeth Minor.
Patsy Cline’s widower, Charlie Dick, will attend the dedication ceremony, and has prepared a short video of pictures of Patsy Cline from his private collection, set to music. Their son Randy and daughter Julie were also invited to the event, and are expected to attend. They will be introduced following the dedication ceremony.
Christian said that the entire school is involved in the dedication events. “We have an elite choral group here, called the Hill Top Singers, and they are going to open the show with some Patsy Cline tunes. The kids pitched in and bought tee-shirts to wear that say: “I opened for Willie Nelson.’ We got them back stage passes, and they are excited about that. The junior class is running the concession stands.”
It took a village to bring Willie Nelson and Family to town, with residents reaching out to Willie Nelson’s managment, contacting friends who may know Willie, and working to bring him back to Winchester. A local restaurateur will be preparing smothered chicken, and other traditional regional dishes, and a hotel in town is offering special packages for fans who attend the concert.
When I asked Christian how the ticket sales were handled, he said, ”We gave first priority to Willie Nelson’s fan club. Then we followed up with a pre-sale for local residents, and announced it on a local country music station, and took a big banner on the front of the local paper. But the tickets went fast, they went too fast. I really wanted everyone to be able to come. We tried to get Willie for another show, but he couldn’t do it.”
The theater accommodates 1,327 people; a cozy venue to see Willie Nelson and Family. ”I tell you what,” Christian said. “When you look at all the venues Willie has played, he has played some beautiful places all over the world. But this beautiful theater is a very intimate setting.”
There will be a special program book given out to people who attend which will include the history of the school with pictures. Willie Nelson’s merchandising crew, Scooter Franks and his staff, will be selling tee shirts, bandannas and other memorabilia. “The only thing I asked him not to sell was any pictures of reefer or anything. This is a high school,” Christian said.
I asked if any pictures of Willie Nelson’s 1966 concert had surfaced, but Christian said none had. “I’ve been looking and asking for them,” Christian said, “but none have shown up. I’d really like to meet the promoter who had the juice to bring Willie Nelson to Winchester back then.”
Winchester is located approximately 80 miles south west of Washington DC. It has a population of approximately 20,000, but it’s surrounding county has a much larger population. “It’s beautiful here,” said Schweiger. “We’re in the middle of our apple picking season, and the apples are turning. The school’s campus is beautiful, too. It sits on top of a hilltop and overlooks the town. It’s a showpiece.”
Over the years, the theater has hosted presidents and celebrities, Christian said. “We had Bob Hope here, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Presidents Johnson and Ford. We’ve had a few luminaries on that stage, but the big prize was getting Willie Nelson to come back.”
“The football team is 6 and O. Willie Nelson’s coming to Winchester. It’s a good time for our city.”
