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Jonny Lang and Robert Randolph & the Family Band Headline Hartman Arena’s First Annual Blues Brews & BBQ Indoor/Outdoor Festival July 24! - On Sale May 1 -
April 27, 2010 - 
A festival experience the likes of which Kansas hasn't seen before is coming to Hartman Arena on July 24th. Hartman Arena's First Annual Blues Brews & BBQ will feature 15 dynamic national and local acts on 3 alternating indoor and outdoor stages. Headlining the event will be Jonny Lang, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Moreland & Arbuckle, Moonlight Drive, plus a dozen more bands to be announced soon, including some huge surprises. The event will feature a BBQ competition, craft fair, outdoor activities, a merch market and a lot more (see map below).
“I've wanted to do an event like this one for a long time," said Wink Hartman, owner of Hartman Arena. "The inside/outside aspect of this show will be really cool and it's something that as far as I know hasn't been done before in Kansas. It's the best of both worlds and the talent we’ve got coming to this thing is just amazing.”
The festival finds its uniqueness in the fact that the acts will alternate throughout the day between an outside stage, the arena stage, and a lounge stage. Robert Randolph and the Family Band will close down the outside stage in the evening and then the show will move back into the arena one more time where Jonny Lang will finish out the night.
Lang became a professional musician at the ripe old age of 12 when he started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the guitar player for Bad Medicine Blues Band. Jonny quickly became the lead of the band which renamed itself Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang. At age 15 Lang was signed to A&M Records in 1996. In 1997, he released the multi-platinum “Lie to Me” and “Wander This World” was released in 1998, earning Lang his first Grammy nomination. His next project, “Long Time Coming”, released in 2003, but it wasn't until he released his gospel album “Turn Around” in 2006 that Jonny Lang won a Grammy Award.
The also Grammy-nominated Robert Randolph & The Family Band's highly anticipated new album "We Walk This Road" -- the first since the band's acclaimed 2006 effort, "Colorblind" -- is set for release this June on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett, the album continues the Sacred Steel tradition for which Randolph has earned wide praise, including the New York Times, which applauds "his rip-roaring virtuosity and his gift for making his instrument sing without a word." Randolph is also renowned for his passionate live performance -- called "a spiritual celebration complete with audience participation and animated dancing" by the Chicago Tribune and he was recently named one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Tickets go on-sale beginning at 10:00 on May 1 and are only $45 G.A. and $65 for the V.I.P. experience. Check back to hartmanarena.com in the coming weeks for additional event info, artist announcements, maps, and opportunities to get involved. Tickets will be available at stage1tickets.com, all Stage1 Ticket Outlets, the Hartman Arena Box Office or by calling 316-927-3999!
