Common Ground Music Festival - July 7-13 2008

Officials announce more acts for this year’s Common Ground Music Festival, which will be held July 8 - 15, 2007. The following artists have been added to the Miller Lite Concert Series and will be performing throughout the festival week in Adado Riverfront Park:

• Miranda Lambert
• Bruce Hornsby
• Pretty Ricky

Single day tickets for these shows are ON SALE NOW! Individual, single day tickets for the Common Ground Music Festival are $26 before July 1, 2007. Beginning July 1, 2007 the individual, single day tickets will be $30. The Common Card, eight-day pass, is $82 before July 1, 2007. Beginning July 1, 2007 the Common Card will be $92. Children age ten and under are free when accompanied by a ticketed adult. All Common Ground Music Festival tickets are limited and available at the following locations:

• Star Tickets Plus Outlets
• Common Ground Office in the Lansing City Market at 333 North Cedar Street, Lansing
  (Monday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
• Online at: www.commongroundfest.com
• By phone: (800) 585-3737

Beginning this year, FREE PARKING will be included with the purchase of any Common Ground ticket, at select City of Lansing ramps/lots (while spaces last).

Current Common Ground Music Festival Line-up:

Sunday, July 8, 2007

• Peter Frampton w.s.g. Dickey Betts & Great Southern

Monday, July 9, 2007

• Los Lonely Boys w.s.g. Bobby “Blue” Bland

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

• The New Cars (featuring Todd Rundgren)

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

• Weird Al Yankovic
• Rodney Atkins w.s.g Miranda Lambert

Thursday, July 12, 2007

• The Romantics w.s.g. Marshall Crenshaw
• Mike Armstrong
• Todd Yohn
• Tim Cavanaugh
• Dwight Slade

Friday, July 13, 2007

• .38 Special w.s.g. Guess Who
• The Badboys of Rock Tour featuring Hinder, Papa Roach, Buckcherry and The Exies

Saturday, July 14, 2007

• Montgomery Gentry
• Pretty Ricky

Sunday, July 15, 2007

• Bruce Hornsby

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

• “Miranda Lambert” This up and coming country music star, has been making music since she was little in small-town Texas. In 2003, she finished third on the nationally televised show Nashville Star and has not looked back since. She released her debut album, Kerosene, in 2005 with much success. It produced hits including, “There’s A Wall,” “What About Georgia,” “Love’s Looking for You” and “Love Your Memory.” Her latest album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is climbing the charts quickly and Miranda Lambert was also just named the Academy of Country Music ’s Best New Female Vocalist.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

• “Pretty Ricky” Miami-based quartet Pretty Ricky — Spectacular, Diamond, Slick, and Pleasure — make a bouncing hybrid of rap and R&B. They debuted in 2005 with their album, Bluestars. The lead single “Grind with Me” was a significant hit with urban radio stations and the album went on to sell over 800,000 copies. Their album, Late Night Special followed in early 2007.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

• “Bruce Hornsby” Three-time Grammy Award Winner, Bruce Hornsby, has released nine albums in his career and sold more than ten million records since his multi-platinum debut in 1986, The Way It Is. He is known as one of pop’s most in demand side man and has played with the likes Bob Dylan, Don Henley, Bob Segar, Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson. His most recent album, Halcyon Days, was released in 2004 and has various hits, including the popular, “Dreamland.”