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Friday Cheers 2009
25 Years of FREE Music!
Brown's Island
6:00-9:30pm
Venture Richmond's FREE signature summer concert series, Friday Cheers, presented by Coors Light and Yuengling, is back on Brown's Island for its 25th season and promises to feature some of the nation's hottest touring acts, along with some regional favorites. The series kicks off Friday, May 8, and continues Fridays through June 26.
This Friday, June 5:
Jerry Douglas (w/ The Atkinsons)
Jerry Douglas is widely renowned as perhaps the finest dobro player in contemporary acoustic music. His main foundation is bluegrass, but Douglas is an eclectic whose tastes run toward jazz, blues, folk, and straight-ahead country as well, and he's equally capable of appealing to bluegrass aficionados or new agers with a taste for instrumental roots music. Douglas began playing the dobro at age eight with encouragement from his father, who was also a bluegrass musician. By his teen years, Douglas was already a member of his father's band, and his playing was especially influenced by Josh Graves of Flatt & Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys. Douglas was discovered at a festival by the Country Gentlemen, who took him on tour with them for the rest of the summer and later brought him into the recording studio. http://www.jerrydouglas.com
Parking: available in the brand new Federal Reserve Bank parking deck at the corner of 5th & Byrd Streets starting at 5:30pm for $5. Also at Riverfront Towers and Riverside on the James parking decks at 10th & Tredegar Streets for $5, and at The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar on Tredegar Street for $5.
Presented by: Coors Light and Yuengling
Sponsored by: Mix 103.7, 96.5 KLR, K95, Y101, Plan 9 Music, BlackFinn, Richmond.com, Pepsi, James River Cellars, Crowne Plaza and Style Weekly
Produced and Managed by: Venture Richmond
Visit: www.venturerichmond.com for more information, call 804-788-6466, or visit the "Friday Cheers Makes Beer Taste Better" Fan Page on Facebook for the full lineup and up to date information.
Brown's Island has free Wi-Fi.
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6.3.2009 
