ADVISORY/Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 and Hard Rock Cafe Battle of the Bands.Entertainment Editors ADVISORY...For Saturday (Aug. 4) --(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) National Winner to Open the Rolling Rock Town Fair The Rolling Rock Town Fair is an annual alternative rock festival sponsored by Rolling Rock beer. The 4th Rolling Rock Town Fair was in Pittsburgh, PA. [1] Article on Rolling Rock Town Fair 3 [2] First Rolling Rock Tour (MTV) [3] 2.0 featuring the Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) was a popular Grammy Award-winning American hard rock band in the 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of Scott Weiland (vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion). August 4 in Latrobe, PA Other Bands Performing Include LIVE, DEFTONES, INCUBUS, STAIND, OLEANDER oleander: see dogbane. oleander Any of the ornamental evergreen shrubs of the genus Nerium (dogbane family), which have poisonous milky juice. Numerous varieties of flower colour in the common oleander, or rosebay (N. , and TANTRIC tan·tra n. Any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit and concerned with powerful ritual acts of body, speech, and mind. at the Day-Long, Sold-Out, Music Festival Hard Rock Cafe Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining restaurants. It was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, and their first Hard Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in London, in a former Rolls Royce car dealerships showroom close to Hyde Park, where in 1979 they began to and Rolling Rock have teamed up to give unsigned bands a spectacular opportunity to showcase their music with a "Battle of the Bands" event to take place at Hard Rock locations around the country. The national winner will be chosen by public voting on www.hardrock.com, and will open this year's Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 in Latrobe, PA on August 4, 2001. How it Works Local unsigned bands and their supporters have submitted CDs to various Hard Rock locations around the country, and have performed in the challenging preliminary rounds. Now in the regional finals, local bands have been narrowed down to three finalists in each of the participating locations: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Diego. At the end of these regional competitions, one winner from each Hard Rock location will be selected to compete in the final national contest, with public voting to take place on the Hard Rock website www.hardrock.com from July 21st through July 24th. The winner will be announced on radio and on www.hardrock.com on July 25th, and the winning band will open the Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 concert in Latrobe, PA, featuring the Stone Temple Pilots. Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 Last summer 33,000 music fans descended on the quiet town of Latrobe for the Rolling Rock Town Fair, the biggest music event ever to hit western Pennsylvania. On August 4, 2001, the second annual Rolling Rock Town Fair will return with a power driven line-up that includes headliners Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Deftones, Incubus, Staind, Oleander and Tantric. Dubbed Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0, the daylong music event and interactive festival will take place at the Westmoreland Fairgrounds. Once again Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 will feature a unique combination of carnival attractions from stilt stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the flamingo. walkers to tattoos. Roaming clowns, strolling magicians, local artisans and games will add to the festive atmosphere. |
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