Monday, April 16, 2007

UPDATE: Richardson Wildflower Festival updates headliners list

By Pegasus News wire

Updated 07:12 a.m., May 15, 2007

RICHARDSON — UPDATE: Bo Diddley had to cancel for health reasons. Word is he's in the hospital. Here's hoping he's better soon. Thanks to Pegasus News user J_Mortimer for the heads-up.

Also, don't forget our free VIP ticket and swag contest. You can enter just by posting a comment below telling us who at the fest you most want to see.

City of Richardson officials announced more headliner acts for this year’s 15th annual Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival, May 18-20. With just five weeks left until the gig, Bo Diddley, Jo Dee Messina, Tracy Byrd and The Austin Lounge Lizards join an already impressive lineup at Wildflower!, an arts and music festival drawing local, regional, and national acts performing the best in classic and alternative rock, country, blues, funk, pop, R&B, Americana, and folk.

You haven't seen diddley till you've experienced a live performance with “The Originator,” Bo Diddley. Wielding his trademark rectangular-shaped guitar, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Hall of Famer brings his popular “Bo Diddley Beat” to the American Airlines Stage for an early evening performance on Saturday, May 19.

Closing out the festival on Sunday, May 20 is Jo Dee Messina- One of today's hottest artists in the world of country music. Messina became the first woman in country music history to have three consecutive multi-week No. 1 songs from one album, and when you're Billboard's most-played female country artist it's no wonder The Austin Chronicle labels you “contemporary country's brightest up-and-coming star!” Acts are still being booked and will be announced when confirmed.

Other headliners scheduled to play Wildflower! include: Better Than Ezra, Fastball, John Waite, The Romantics, Eddie Money, Le Freak, The Original Family Stone, Morris Day and The Time, Foghat, Shooter Jennings, Grand Funk Railroad and Paramount’s LaserSpectacular featuring the Music of Pink Floyd!

Texas’ very own, the satirical folk band Austin Lounge Lizards, headline the award-winning Singer/Songwriter Stage along with Jud Caswell, Bill Ward, The Dreamsicles, The Laws, John W. Davis, Jonathan Byrd, Dromedary, Zoe Lewis, Susan Gibson, Diana Jones, John Gorka, Butch Morgan & Robert Firth.

Ticket prices for Wildflower! again remain a great deal with a $20 three-day pass available at all area Tom Thumb stores beginning April 16th. The $20 pass is sold until 5:30 pm, Friday, May 18. Advance purchase passes are also available on-line and by phone through Front Gate Tickets. Single day tickets are $15 and kids age 5-12 are $3; both tickets are available only at the festival gates. Kids 4 and under are free.

Wildflower! also features strolling performers and buskers, the family-friendly Nortel Kidz Korner, the Wild! Marketplace, the City of Richardson's Petting Zoo, and The Acoustic Café.

Wildflower! would not be possible without support from some of the country’s leading corporate and media organizations- ViewPoint Bank, Richardson Regional Medical Center, American Airlines, CBS 11, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas, Nortel, Bud Light, Star CommunityNewspapers, 96.3 KSCS, AT&T, and Sherwin-Williams.

Source: Wildflower! Pegasus News is a media sponsor of the festival.

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