“That time is coming.”.Sunday Life editor Monica Holland can be reached at mholland@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3518.© Gannett Co., Inc. 2020. He has written and co-written more than 170 songs.Urban, meanwhile, boasts 22 number one songs and has topped the country music charts with six of his seven most recent albums. 56501,Commissioners meet with attorney over lawsuit by former Becker County Jail inmate,UPDATED: Hubbard County K-9 officer, police officer hurt responding to suicide call,Bike trail from Park Rapids to Detroit Lakes likely to run through Osage and Wolf Lake,Winter may bring a lot more coronavirus cases, new research finds,Navigating WE Fest: Detours, one-way traffic, shuttles and ride shares,Policing WE Fest: Deputies, troopers are out in full force. More information is available at,Sunny skies mean lots of happy concert goers at WE Fest, which officially kicks off this Thursday, Aug. 1 at the Soo Pass Ranch south of Detroit Lakes. He’s chased the dream of recapturing the spirit of 1969 all the way to Saloon Studios in West Jefferson, North Carolina.That’s where he’ll help stage the WE2019 Festival with original members of some of the greatest bands who gave us some of the most iconic moments from the Woodstock Festival five decades ago.The three-day WE2019 festival runs Aug. 9-11 and each day features a 10-band lineup. “You always know the songs.”.Moutenot has made his way through the world of music as a drummer, most recently for Rick Derringer’s band. Since its inaugural edition in 2014, the festival has seen incredible performances from globally-known acts of different genres including The Kooks, Dua Lipa, James Bay, SZA, Miguel, Ellie Goulding, Big Sean, The 1975, G-Eazy, […] You can almost hear Roger Miller scat singing jazz style in the middle of "Kansas City Star," Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt belting out the "Whisky Ain't Workin' (Any More)," the Alabama boys getting down on "Mountain Music," John Anderson just a "Swingin'," or Emmylou Harris as she leaves the crowd breathless with her version of "Sweet Dreams. Saloon Studios is situated in Old West Town, seating just 100 guests in an intimate setting. Dozens of campers line up near the gates of WE Fest near Detroit Lakes, Minn., on Monday, July 29, ahead of the annual country music festival's Thursday opening. Send. The long-running music festival has been sold to Live Nation. Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Billy Currington, Jake Owen, LeAnn Rimes ... these country artists routinely sell out concert venues all on their own.Yet WE Fest ticket holders will get a chance to see each of these superstars and more this weekend, starting at 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, and continuing until the wee morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 4, at Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes.Stapleton will be making his WE Fest debut this year, headlining Saturday's show, while Brooks & Dunn will be making their first appearance in 10 years to anchor Friday night's lineup. “Most of them I’ve booked personally through the years.”.Mountain is known for its megahit “Mississippi Queen,” but in 1969 the band was brand new and Woodstock was only its fourth gig. How it works: Go to the official WE Fest website www.wefest.com. Select your 2019 WE Fest Tickets. Urban, who headlines Thursday's show, made his last appearance on the WE Fest stage in 2013.Stapleton, the popular and award-winning singer/songwriter from Kentucky, is known for big hits like “Broken Halos,” “Millionaire,” “Nobody to Blame” and “Tennessee Whiskey.” A five-time Grammy Award winner and seven-time Academy of Country Music Awards winner — including multiple wins for Best Country Album and Male Vocalist of the Year — Stapleton has racked up a long list of accolades for his work as a performer and composer. “We want to keep it really personal.”.He has helped assemble a dazzling group of artists thanks to connections formed over years in the business.“I have personal relationships from managing or being in bands or booking bands,” he says. Enter Promo Code "WFANDREW" in the "Passcode" box and click Go. On the second day of the festival, around 9 p.m. and in front of an audience of nearly half a million people, Mountain kicked off its set with “Blood of the Sun” and a heavy blues rock supernova was born.Corky Laing, Mountain’s drummer, will bring the band’s music to the festival in West Jefferson.Joey Molland, the last surviving member of Badfinger’s classic lineup, will perform that band’s biggest hits, songs like “Day After Day,” which was produced by George Harrison, and “Come and Get It.”,The Johnny Winter Legacy band, a tribute to the late blues guitarist, shares Winter’s reinventions of classics like Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revsited” and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”,Also on the bill are Vanilla Fudge, whose psychedelic cover of the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” has been featured on prestige television shows “The Sopranos” and “Mad Men.”.Iron Butterfly, whose “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” stands up as one of the funkiest riffs ever played, is also slated to perform.The classic live music, the old town venue and the all-inclusive features make this event some kind of resort rock adventure.“Our motivation is that there’s only one 50th anniversary and we want to bring these artists together for the love of music,” Moutenot says.