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Tab Benoit
Friday, August 18, 2017 • 7:30 PM Saturday, August 19, 2017 • 7:30 PM Sunday, August 20, 2017 • 7:30 PM
Tickets: $ 28/ $ 40/ $ 50 Tickets: $ 70/ $ 86/ $ 99 Tickets: $ 22 adult/ $ 11 student
Tab Benoit is one of Louisiana’s best musical exports. In 2007,
Benoit won the dual awards of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
and Best Contemporary Male Performer at the Blues Music
Awards in Memphis (formerly the W.C. Handy Awards). In
2006, he received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional
Blues Album for Brother to the Blues, a collaboration with
Louisiana’s LeRoux. More than just an acclaimed bluesman,
he is an indefatigable conservation advocate. Benoit is a
driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization
working to save Louisiana’s wetlands. In 2010, he received the
Governor’s Award for Conservationist of the Year from the
Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Benoit also starred in the iMax
motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of
Hurricane Katrina’s effects and a call to restore the wetlands. Opening set: R Country Gals Ride the winds of time and have fun while you learn in this
classic “illuminated musical history” of Bayfield and the Island
Environs, with secrets of Red Cliff and Old LaPointe. Original
music and song-stories tell the tales while the Big Screen shines
with hundreds of then and now photos featuring Lighthouse
Keepers, Ojibway life, dreamers & schemers, town scenes,
Voyageurs, sailing, f ishing, the big flood and more. Created
in 1985 by Warren Nelson and Betty Ferris (Nelson Ferris
Concert Company), “Riding the Wind” was the first show
performed on the Big Top stage and is still a season highlight.
∆Dance Alert
Sponsored by:
•Kim & Derek Ogle•
With 36 Number 1 hits and more than 25 million albums sold,
Charley Pride is a true country music legend. From 1966 to
1984 the overwhelming majority of his more than 50 singles
reached the Top 10, with more than half hitting Number 1
including “Kiss an Angel Good Morning,” “Mountain of Love”
and “Is Anybody Going to San Antone?” In 1971 the Country
Music Association named him Entertainer of the Year. He
became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 and was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Sponsored by:
•Haukaas Law Office, S.C.•
•Ashland Construction Co., Inc.•
Also plays July 2
Sponsored by:
•Woody & Linda Petersen•
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