The 21st Annual American Music Festival kicks off tonight, August 29th, and ends Sunday, August 31st, at the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This annual event has become a Labor Day weekend favorite for music lovers. Here's a look at the daily highlights:
Friday
The first night's headliner on the 5th Street Park main stage is the young country star Hunter Hayes.
Later that night, eight-track flashback Foghat ("Slow Ride") hits the free 17th Street Park stage with its British-influenced take on very American blues and rock.
Saturday
The main stage offers more blues-flavored rock sing-alongs with Blues Traveler, whose popularity came and went 20 years ago as its harmonica-laced hits "Hook" and "Run-Around" faded from radio playlists. That band shares the bill with Creedence Clearwater Revisited, a reincarnation of the soulful '70s rock band whose focal point, the great John Fogerty, won't be with it.
Swing band Cherry Poppin' Daddies will be playing the 17th Street Park at 7:30 p.m. - following local act Major and the Monbacks - and world music/jam band Rusted Root jumping on the stage at the 31st Street Park, along with local act Seth Stainback & Roosterfoot.
Sunday
On the last day, Train, the San Francisco band whose biggest success has come by way of songs such as "Drops of Jupiter" and "Hey, Soul Sister," will take the main stage. Later that night on the free 24th Street stage, smooth jazz stalwart Gerald Albright, who in more than 30 years on the scene has been more significant as a tasteful sideman than a significant front man, will offer his unobtrusive mood music.
Cost:
Free for concerts at the 17th, 24th and 31st Street parks; for 5th Street stage shows, $20 in advance or $25 day of show, per show, or $40 for an all-show pass; $80 for a Preferred Viewing Passport Pin. Click here to purchase tickets.
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