Jazz Aspen Snowmass 20th Anniversary Labor Day Festival
Final Line-Up Announced - 2010

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Aspen, CO– Organizers of the 2010 Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival have been working frantically to finalize this year’s Labor Day line-up and it looks like all of that hard work has paid off! The festival kicks-off on Friday, Sept. 3rd with Wilco in their only performance West of the Mississippi this summer. Opening for Wilco are DeVotchKa and Calexico. Headlining Saturday, Sept. 4th Eagles founder Glenn Frey and band member Joe Walsh will headline with the Court Yard Hounds, featuring Emily Robison and Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks opening at 5pm and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings taking the stage at 3pm. On Sunday, Sept. 5th Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd join the bill with previously announced rockers The Black Crowes and 3pm opening act Truth & Salvage Co.

Three stages (including performances from The New Mastersounds, Lubriphonic, The Stone Foxes & more), fabulous food and tasty beverages, late night performances and more! Jazz Aspen Snowmass is not to be missed. Check out full schedules and details at www.jazzaspen.org.

Tickets for all three days of this years festival are on-sale now. Tickets can be purchased at 866-JAS-TIXX (527-8499), www.jazzaspen.org or at the Belly Up Box Office, 544-9800. A three-day festival pass is available for just $190 (prices include all service charges). Single day general admission tickets are $56 for Friday and $75 for Saturday or Sunday. Prices include all service charges. NEW THIS YEAR: CHILDREN 13 & Under are FREE! Patron (VIP) tickets are available now and can be purchased at 970-920-4996 or www.jazzaspen.org. For ticket and lodging packages visit www.snowmasstourism.com or call 800-SNOWMASS.

Wilco, a Chicago rock band, was formed by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Tweedy in the mid-1990s. The band’s most recent release (their 11th) Wilco (the album) revels a group fifteen years into its career at the peak of their game. The album is the follow-up to 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, the group’s highest-charting release ever and nominated for the Grammy for Best Rock Album.

Friday 6pm act DeVotchKa has quietly become one of the most celebrated bands making music today. A disparate, yet articulate union of Eastern European, Southwestern, South American and American roots music, both punk and folk. It is music unique enough, performed at virtuosic degree, and teeming with enough intangibles, to rightly be called “special.”

Calexico, opening the day at 4pm, have constantly imbued their music with an unparalleled sense of drama, calling upon myths and iconography of the American West and its Spanish speaking neighbor Mexico. Their latest release, Carried to Dust, defines that sound calling upon almost two decades of exploration and an ensemble of musicians that must surely be the envy of bands throughout the world.

Glenn Frey is best known as the multi-talented mastermind behind The Eagles, one of the best-selling bands of all time. The original band began playing together in 1971 while guitarist Joe Walsh joined the group in 1975. After a split in 1980 both Frey and Walsh ventured into successful solo careers, while reuniting with the group again in 1994 for the Hell Freezes Over Tour. The Eagles have toured together intermittently since Hell Freezes Over and in 2007 released their first studio album in 28 years Long Road Out of Eden. They continue to tour today both as a group and in special shows such as the Frey/Walsh Aspen appearance.

As the mainstays of the Dixie Chicks since they formed the group in 1989, the sisters have been familiar faces to many millions of fans, yet just a little mysterious in that familiarity, content as they were to cede the lead vocalist position and remain music’s most recognizable “sidewomen.” Chicks fans couldn’t help but hear those ever-present harmonies and wonder if Emily and Martie might ever come out from hiding in plain sight. That’s just what they’ve done in their newly hatched incarnation as Court Yard Hounds, with a gorgeously assured debut album that has the siblings sounding like they’ve been fearless frontwomen all their lives. When fans see Maguire and Robison from now on, whether they’re at side or center stage, it’ll be with a greater sense of the individual personalities of the sisters who’ve seemed ubiquitous, yet just a little elusive for so many years. Their easy smiles and rapport with fans from the front rows to the rafters have gotten them pegged as “the friendly ones,” but the material on Court Yard Hounds proves them as complex as they are approachable.

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. Steeped in the gilded and gritty sounds of gospel, soul and funk, this nine-piece act continues to electrify fans, disc jockeys, critics, record collectors and bloggers the world over with their heart-felt sound. Their albums recall an analog era led by iconic studios like those at Motown and Stax Records and have thrust the August, GA native and crew into the multimedia limelight.

Beyond the tragedy, the history, the raging guitars and the killer songs, ultimately Lynyrd Skynyrd is about an indomitable will. With a catalog of over 60 albums and sales beyond 20 million, the band remains a cultural icon that appeals to all generations. Their latest release, God & Guns, is a fitting addition to the canon. The band will be performing at 7:15pm on Sunday.

From the beginning, when they roared out of the gate with their multi-platinum debut album, Shake Your Money Maker in 1990, The Black Crowes have played by their own rules. They’ve gone against the grain and formed an intimate connection with their audience while maintaining their independence and creative freedom from standard industry practices. On Aug. 3rd the band released their first-ever double album of all acoustic material, Croweology, with new arrangements of their best-loved songs and deep cuts. Following the release they began a US tour, their final before taking an indefinite hiatus in 2011.

The six musicians of Truth & Salvage Co. boast four lead singer/songwriters, each with a unique story to tell and voice to hear. Together they rise up from one common seed ad something bigger is made. The result is genuine American rock ‘n roll with a timeless sound and interwoven lyrical storytelling.
 

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