Ani DiFranco added to Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival’s Stellar Line-Up

 

Released on: April 21, 2008, 9:11 pm

Press Release Author: Renee Bodie, Renee@cumuluspresents.com, 818-621-8309

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: The 13th Annual Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival just added Ani DiFranco to an already massive line up of artists over the June 27 – 29, 2008 weekend at beautiful Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, California, just a three hour drive north of San Francisco. With live music on three stages, camping, kids activities, and great food in the concession area throughout the weekend, this is the destination of choice for music aficionados. Tickets and Information can be found on the following website: http://www.cumuluspresents.com/kate. Telephone number to call is 707.823.1511. Advance tickets are advised.

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Attention: Entertainment Editor
Re: Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival Announces Stellar Line-Up

Date: Friday, June 27 - 29, 2008
Where: Laytonville, CA (Mendocino County)

Tickets/Info: http://www.cumuluspresents.com/kate or www.seb.org 707-823-1511 Ani DiFranco added to Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival’s Stellar Line-Up Los Lobos, Ani DiFranco, Taj Mahal Trio, Keb’ Mo’ Band, Greg Brown, David Lindley, The Waifs, Ruthie Foster, Todd Snider, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Nina Gerber, Jimmy LaFave, Rosalie Sorrels, Cris Williamson, The Wailin’ Jennys, The Greencards, Pieta Brown, Blame Sally, Vance Gilbert, and Moira Smiley & VOCO and more to announce in the near future.

The 13th Annual Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival just added Ani DiFranco to an already massive line up of artists over the June 27 – 29, 2008 weekend at beautiful Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, California, just a three hour drive north of San Francisco. With live music on three stages, camping, kids activities, and great food in the concession area throughout the weekend, this is the destination of choice for music aficionados. Tickets and Information can be found on the following website: http://www.cumuluspresents.com/kate. Telephone number to call is 707.823.1511. Advance tickets are advised.

Ani DiFranco, officially announced as the Sunday night closing act for the festival, has established herself as one of the most influential and inspirational artists of the modern era. DiFranco’s innovative guitar style, signature percussive fingerpicking, expressive vocals and incisive lyrics – along with a constitutional inability to be anything less than totally real – have earned her a loyal, dedicated fan base and ongoing critical acclaim. With DiFranco, what you see is what you get – the act of making music is inseparable from the process of living her life. Friday night’s festival Main Stage rocks with heavyweight bluesmen Keb’ Mo’ & the Taj Mahal Trio. The legendary Taj, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of his recording career, plays his own distinctive brand of music -- variously described as Afro-Caribbean blues, folk-world-blues, hula blues, folk-funk, and a host of other hyphenations.

The spectacular array of musicians continues on Saturday, including Australian natives The Waifs, and David Lindley, one of the great hidden treasures of the American music scene. Lindley is best-known for the integral part he played in Jackson Browne's music - it's hard to imagine what Browne's For Everyman, Late for the Sky, and Running on Empty albums would have been like without Lindley. Saturday evening closes with Los Lobos, the veteran East Los Angeles band that has crossed cultural and generational boundaries for more than thirty years.

Sunday brings it all home with phenomenal performances all day, leading to the festival closing which begins with Ruthie Foster, the prodigiously gifted singer and songwriter from Texas, and Greg Brown, whose insightful lyrics paint powerful and often deceptively simple images on a canvas of gospel, blues, country, rock, and jazz. The Sunday closer, will be powerfully filled by the incomparable Ani DiFranco.

This is a show that will be talked about long after it is over. With the major airlines announcing rate increases of up to 10% this year, vacationers are camping out, taking long weekend jaunts instead of traveling to exotic destinations. The inspired line-up of performing artists, on-site camping, Kids Zone, and “great vibe” makes the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival the perfect vacation choice this summer. Combine that with the beautiful surroundings and laid back atmosphere, and you’ll see why the best of the best continue to be drawn up to Laytonville each year -- for a little bit of heaven just two hours north of Santa Rosa.

Contact: Renee Bodie - 818-621-8309, Renee@cumuluspresents.com

Web Site: http://www.cumuluspresents.com/kate

 

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