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Elvis and other legends ready to rock Chastain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chastain Park Amphitheater fans should be readying their credit cards today and Sunday. That’s when tickets go on sale for the second half of this summer’s lineup at the venerable venue via promoter Live Nation and Classic Chastain series with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
The concerts put on by Live Nation roll out with Elvis Costello & the Impostors featuring Allan Toussaint with the Crescent City Horns and Anthony “AB” Brown on guitar July 17; Willie Nelson, July 24; Steely Dan and Michael McDonald (sans tables), Aug. 7; James Gang Rides Again, Aug. 24; Chris Isaak, Aug. 29; Earth Wind & Fire, Aug. 31; Styx and Foreigner, Sept. 22; Santana, Sept. 30; and John Mayer, Oct. 14.
The 2006 Delta Air Lines Concert Series B will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday. For tickets, call 404-233-2227 or go to www.livenation.com.
Meanwhile, the 2006 Classic Chastain Summer Concert Series will present Los Lonely Boys, June 16; B.B King with the Neville Brothers and Dr. John, June 21; Doobie Brothers, June 24; Kenny Rogers, June 30; Gipsy Kings, July 1; Peter Frampton, July 12; the Beach Boys, July 26; India Arie, July 29; George Benson, Aug. 4; Bruce Hornsby, Aug. 9; Hootie & the Blowfish, Aug. 12; John Prine, Aug. 18; Lyle Lovett, Aug. 25; and Amy Grant, Aug. 26.
Debuting in the Classic Chastain line-up this season are Toni Braxton, June 23; Ian Anderson, July 22; Anita Baker, July 14-15; Paul Simon, July 19; Guster, July 21; Fiona Apple, Aug. 2; Raul Midon, Aug. 4; Chris Botti, Aug. 11; Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Aug. 16; Collective Soul, Aug. 19; Spyro Gyra/Fourplay, Aug. 23.
Tickets go on sale this morning. Call 404-733-5000 or go to www.classicchastain.com.
Still chastising Chastain
Alas, one name is missing from both Chastain lineups this summer. “A Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor is still a might mad at those chatty chardonnay sippers who irritated him last season. Recently on prairiehome.org, Keillor fielded this question from an Acworth fan who wrote: “Are you mad at Atlanta? I know with the unpleasantness at Chastain Park last year you may think we are all uncouth rascals, but really there is a large contingency of ‘PHC’ lovers here… . Have you forever crossed us off your list of tour destinations? Please don’t punish the 98% of those of us who love your show because of the 2% who act like goobers. Come back to the Fox. We were all civilized there.”
Keillor responded, writing: “I don’t hate Atlanta. I just feel that rudeness should be pointed out and I find the rudeness of wealthy drunken people especially irritating… . The evening at Chastain sticks in my craw. An apology would’ve eased the situation, but none was offered, and that, to me, is an enormous insult.”
The folksy radio host did tell fans he has nothing against the South, pointing out an enjoyable recent trip to Columbus, where he sat “on a screened porch, talking about the South with some of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. They may have been rich and they might have been drunk but they didn’t yell at me. I look forward to going back.”
Star Fest at Atlantic Station
Hoping to fill the void left by the on-hiatus Music Midtown, Star 94 is throwing Star Fest on July 22 at Atlantic Station. The one-day, two-stage outdoor festival will feature Train, Pink, Nickel Creek, Aqualung, Mat Kearney and the Whigs. We’re told more acts will likely be added before tickets going on sale June 3. The price? An economical $35 per person.
Sick bay
Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant had his appendix removed in emergency surgery, the band’s manager said.
Van Zant, 46, came out of surgery at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday night, said manager Ross Schilling. His condition was not immediately available.
“He had been feeling bad the past couple of days,” Schilling told The Associated Press. “He had performances Tuesday and Wednesday and sucked it up last night as far as performing with some pain.”
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Singer Joe Cocker is 62. Singer-actress Cher is 60. Guitarist Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s is 48. Actress Mindy Cohn (“Facts of Life”) is 40. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 34. Actor Matt Czuchry (“Gilmore Girls”) is 29.
Sunday: Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 65. Comedian Al Franken is 55. Actor Mr. T is 54. Actor Judge Reinhold is 49.
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