From a press release:
Live Music Peoria presents…
Fall Music Festival at Glen Oak Park
A Tribute to Dan FogelbergSeptember 13, 2008. Doors open at 2pm.
Glen Oak Amphitheater at Glen Oak Park
Children 12 & under: $7; Adults: $20 advance, $25 doorTickets available at area Co-Op Records locations, online at livemusicpeoria.org or by calling 1-800-514-3849.
Music, food and fun for the whole family!
Celebrate Peoria’s musical heritage and pay tribute to the legacy of Dan Fogelberg with food, drinks, activities and live music. There will be plenty of great food and a beer garden, along with booths for local non-profit groups and Dan Fogelberg memorabilia on display. Proceeds will go to support the Cancer Center for Healthy Living in memory of Dan Fogelberg and his fight with prostate cancer.Schedule
2:00 Doors open; Children’s activities provided by the Junior League of Peoria 3:00 Ralph’s World performance 4:00 Ralph’s World autograph session 4:30 Singer/songwriter Dave McDonald performs 5:00 Lollester Rocket performance; beer garden opens 6:00 The Peoria Acoustic All Stars: A Tribute to Dan Fogelberg 8:00 Headlining act John Sebastian takes the stage
Wow! Ralph’s World! You know you’re the parent of young children when you just wanna go see Ralph’s World. And John Sebastian only provides a flicker of interest.
Anyone know anything about the others? Dave McDonald and Lollester Rocket?
John Sebastian will put on a FANTASTIC show. Do NOT leave early.
It is my understanding that Dave McDonald and Lollestar Rocket are locally based.
If you are excited about Ralph’s World, stick around afterwards. Ralph will meet fans and sign autographs. There will also be plenty of activities for the kids to do at the Junior League/PeoriaPlayHouse area.
When purchasing your tickets, if you enter the code/password JLPADULT (for an adult ticket) or JLPCHILD (for a child), part of that ticket price goes to support The Peoria PlayHouse!
Dave McDonald was a session player for Steely Dan, among others. He is most famous for being a key member of the Doobie Brothers.
Actually, just for the record, this Dave McDonald is a local singer/songwriter who runs the Academy of Fretted Instruments down on Water St.
I guess I confused him with Michael McDonald. I’ve never been a fan of the Doobie Brothers, so this good news in my book. Thanks for the clarification.
Maybe he is County Joe’s brother or Old’s son? 😉
Wow… Dave McDonald. THE Dave McDonald? He really kicked butt singing on “Ride Like The Wind,” didn’t he? Whoops… sorry.
God Bless Dan Fogelberg… but, you know, his songs truly did suck. I wonder if they’ll do some memory type thing when Michael Bolton passes on?
I am a huge Dan fan for over 30 years. Unfortunately, I live too far away and cannot pay tribute to Dan in Peoria, though I would love to be there…Hope we can read about it online, maybe see videos on youtube??!!!! Dan was truly so gifted, an extraordinary musician/songwri-ter and vocalist. I never get tired of listening to his music, it just always amazes me how talented he was. God Bless Dan and best of luck with his tribute!!!!
Amazing how quickly Peoria city/society moves on honoring Dan Fogelberg. He gets a now 2d tribute and also a parkway named in his honor. He hasn’t been in or done anything with Peoria, except concerts and funerals, since he left town, but, hey, let us acknowledge without delay.
Yet Richard Pryor, who has had an equally, if not more impressive and longer career, who brought a production company to town to shoot a film, received nothing but ambivalence, politics, contempt, derision and a long fight to have some sort of city acknowledgment, acclamation or a street named in his honor.
I saw Pryor in town twice driving down Peoria streets in the day. Once in a Ferrari. He always waved when we spotted him and never tried to run away. Both times were by chance and on the south side. A month later on the Tonight show he mentioned that last trip saying he drove from Peoria to LA in that Ferrari and had several tickets to prove it.
So, anyway, I guess in this town you have to come across as white, clean and neat to move to the head of the acknowledgment line. If you curse or have your addictions spotlighted and are black, well then….
Well the concert is pure business…. yeah they talk about benefit for some disease or another that they have been researching for 50 years, but it is a profit venue for the performers.
Why would anyone pay some local yocal to perform Fogelberg’s songs when you can buy the cds much cheaper and get the original?