TRACE ADKINS
✩ TRACY LAWRENCE
✩ CHERRYHOLMES ✩ COREY SMITH
✩ RAILROAD EARTH ✩ ADDED TO ROSTER OF STARS TO PERFORM AT ENTERTAINMENT MECCA
ENTERPRISE, AL--(February 19, 2008) – From Grammy nominees, jam bands and country music sensations,
BamaJam boasts a box office line-up and the stars keep on coming!
Capitol Records country sensation,
Trace Adkins, and fan favorite,
Tracy Lawrence, have been added to the roster of high profile performers to take the stage at
BamaJam, the 3-day country music extravaganza scheduled to be held in Enterprise, AL.
Adkins and Lawrence join the list of 30 award-winning acts slated to perform at the outdoor musical event that’s been pre-described as an entertainment giant--combining the elements and character of Bonnaroo, Woodstock, Telluride and Country Thunder.
Ronnie Gilley Entertainment presents
BamaJam, an all-encompassing community and creative arts experience staged to attract Classic Rock, Alternative, Bluegrass and Country music enthusiasts from around the world. The first annual
BamaJam Music & Arts Festival will take place, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
June 5 – 7, 2008 at Boy Scout Road and Highway #167, Enterprise, Al.
Adkins, who is one of country music’s top headlining performers, and
Lawrence, a perennial country music favorite, will join
Hank Williams, Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ-Top, Randy Owen, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and
Darryl Worley on the roster of big-ticket acts slated to perform at
BamaJam. They’ll bring their rousing, hard-driving country shows to
BamaJam on
Friday evening, June 6.
Adkins’ high energy set will include a plethora of his smash hits from his eleven-year career including "
(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing," "I Left Something Turned On At Home," "Every Light In The House," “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," "I Got My Game On," and his latest, "
Your Gonna Miss This."
A southern boy himself, the Louisiana-born-and-raised baritone has recorded seven studio albums (5 certified million sellers) and two greatest hits compilations, including his latest,
AMERICAN MAN,
GREATEST HITS--Volume II. Most recently, Adkins has been a viable contender on the NBC hit series,
"The Celebrity Apprentice."
Lawrence, who is a member of the Enterprise and New Brockton community as a partner in Mayberry Place, has a music career that spans over 16 years. Time and time again, he’s proven himself as a formidable stylist in the country music format. Lawrence has celebrated successes with gold and platinum sales and 17 No. 1 singles including
"Alibis," "If The World Had A Front Porch," "Time Marches On," "Sticks And Stones," "Paint Me A Birmingham" and his recent No. 1 hit
“Find Out Who Your Friends Are.”
Other new additions to the
Country Music Stage are: ✩ Country music newcomers
Jason Michael Carroll (
“Alyssa Lies”) and
Eric Church (
“How ‘Bout You”).
Appearing on the
Bluegrass Stage along with
Ricky Skaggs, Del McCoury, Ralph Stanley and
Dan Tyminski are: ✩ The 2008 Grammy Nominee, extraordinary bluegrass sextet and dynamic family band,
Cherryholmes. ✩The Duhks--A multi-talented group of high-energy, tattooed twenty-somethings from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who have been riveting audiences around the world with their folk-rock-Celtic-old time-bluegrass-contemporary-gospel music.
Joining
Nanci Griffith on the
Alternative Stage during the 3-day event are: ✩Railroad Earth, a roots, Americana-based jam band that combines elements of bluegrass, rock and roll, jazz, Celtic and more. ✩Corey Smith, who is known as the “unsigned golden artist,” counts 44,000 people on his MySpace "Friends" list, has received 2.5 million song plays and is ranked as the No. 1 unsigned country act, the No. 5 unsigned acoustic act, the No. 11 unsigned rock act and is No. 30 on the list of all MySpace artists. Smith has sold 113,000 song downloads with more than 70,000 on iTunes alone.
O'Reilly Auto Parts has come on board as an official
BamaJam Music & Arts Festival ticket outlet. Participating stores throughout the Southeast will offer general admission tickets. Shop O’Reilly Auto Parts today to take advantage of the Early Bird Ticket Special.
BamaJam is a Ronnie Gilley Entertainment Production. A portion of the proceeds from
BamaJam will be donated to The Harlon Gilley Small Man Foundation, Inc.
* and The Jimmy Bowden Foundation, Inc.
**—501 (c) 3 public benefit corporations created by Ronnie Gilley to assist in enhancing and improving the lives of the people and community of Coffee County and the surrounding area.
Tickets to
BamaJam can be purchased online at www.bamajammusicfestival.com, at all participating O’Reilly Auto Parts Stores, or by calling BamaJam headquarters at
(877) 4BAMAJAM.
(General Admission: $39.50 - $99.50 • VIP Tickets: $149.50 - $309.50-- Early Bird Special Ends April 1, 2008)
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*Ronnie Gilley established The Harlon Gilley Small Man Foundation, Inc. in his father’s honor. This award program was created as an esteemed resemblance of Harlon Gilley’s stellar character to recognize those individuals who have positioned themselves in the very same stature within their family, their profession and their community. This award program recognizes those persons who are philanthropic to their family and friends, have made significant contributions in their profession and to their community, and who are an active and outspoken champion for humanity.
**The Jimmy Bowden Foundation, Inc. was established to rebuild the Enterprise High School and support the victims who suffered from the tragic March 2007 Tornado.
