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Truly Texan Event October 2 at Whataburger Field

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CORPUS CHRISTI – Grammy Award-winning musician Charlie Daniels and his band headline Ziegfest 2010 at Whataburger Field on Saturday, October 2.

In addition, The Toadies, Jack Ingram, Bob Schneider, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, HOBO, The Britt Lloyd Band and Timmy Curran have been confirmed for the event, which runs from 3-11:45 p.m. The show is presented by Ryan-Sanders Entertainment, the Corpus Christi Hooks, L&F Distributors, ZiegenBock, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and K-99.

Officials from Ryan- Sanders Baseball and L&F Distributors announced that a portion of the proceeds from Ziegfest 2010 will benefit the Texas Surf Museum.

“Surfing didn't originate in Texas but just as we have with food, fashion and music Texans adopted it, embraced it and put our unmistakably Lone Star stamp all over it,” Texas Surf Museum founder Brad Lomax said. “The Texas Surf Museum proudly chronicles this unlikely chapter in the diverse history of our state.”

Ziegfest tickets are for sale online and the ballpark box office. Phone purchasers may call 361-561-4665. All tickets are General Admission and $25 in advance, $30 the day-of.

To take advantage of special $20 ticket pricing before September 7, enter the special offer code ziegfest when prompted on the event page through TicketReturn at whataburgerfield.com

The 73-year-old son of a lumberjack, Daniels’ diverse musical menu encompasses country, rock, bluegrass, blues and gospel. He’s partly Western and partly Southern, which makes him the perfect fit for a truly Texan event. By the late 1950s, Daniels was already skilled on the guitar, fiddle and mandolin. It was then he first formed a rock and roll band and hit the road.

Over the next half-century, Daniels toured, wrote for his band and various performers (including Elvis Presley and Tammy Wynette), worked as a Nashville session musician (for Bob Dylan among others) and produced albums (for the Youngbloods). As a record-maker, he broke through with 1973’s Honey In the Rock and its hit hippie song, “Uneasy Rider.” Daniels’ rebel anthems “Long Haired Country Boy” and “The South's Gonna Do It” propelled his 1975 collection Fire On the Mountain to Double Platinum status.

In the summer of 1979, Daniels delivered “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which became a No. 1 country hit and Platinum single. It topped both country and pop charts, won a Grammy Award, became an international phenomenon, earned three Country Music Association trophies, became a cornerstone of the “Urban Cowboy” movie soundtrack and propelled his Million Mile Reflections album to Triple Platinum.

His yearly Volunteer Jam concerts, musical extravaganzas that served as a prototype for many of today's annual day-long music marathons, always feature a variety of current stars and heritage artists and are considered by some historians as Daniels’ most impressive contribution to Southern music.

He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.

The Charlie Daniels Band is comprised of Daniels, Bruce Brown, Taz DiGregorio, Charlie Hayward, Pat McDonald and Chris Wormer.

Texas-themed activities including a mechanical bull, jalapeno-eating contest, armadillo races, video tributes from notable Texans and a longhorn steer for picture-taking are also planned.

In addition, a huge vendor village inside the ballpark will enable patrons to shop Texas products like never before. If you’d like to set up shop with Ziegfest 2010, contact Adam Nuse of the Hooks front office at 361-561-4685. Nuse can be reached via e-mail at anuse@cchooks.com

The Toadies
Todd Lewis, Mark Reznicek and Clark Vogeler are The Toadies. The band debuted in 1994 with Rubberneck. The Texas rock band is characterized as  raw and commanding. Notable early singles were “Possum Kingdom,” “Tyler” and “Away.” After Hell Below/Stars Above and the departure of bassist Lisa Umbarger, members went their separate ways. They reconvened in 2006 for sold-out shows and No Deliverance featuring the title track, “So Long LoveyEyes” and “Man of Stone.”

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Jack Ingram
Jack Ingram won the 2008 Academy of Country Music Award for Best New Male Vocalist. Big Dreams & High Hopes is the seventh studio disc for the Texas-born writer and performer. It features “Seeing Stars” with Patty Griffin, “Barefoot & Crazy” and “That’s A Man.” Ingram has relentlessly toured venues large and small since 1997. The album Wherever You Are, a mostly live project, was followed by 2008’s This Is It. “Wherever You Are” was his first single to reach No. 1. Ingram grew up in Houston and attended SMU.

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Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider is a working-class musician with faithful followers nationwide and a huge Austin fan base. The independent artist has released five albums, hundreds of digital singles and simultaneously fronted three bands. Lovely Creatures is a polished record with quintessentially diverse musical styles. “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)” is Americana pop and dance tunes “Tarantula” and “Bombonanza” are Schneider show favorites making their studio-recording debuts. Schneider’s Lonelyland is the top-selling Waterloo Records album. His bands provide the latitude to explore and perform the music he loves: funk, pop, bluegrass, jazz, soul, blues, hip-hop and bar rock.

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The Reverend Horton Heat
Jim “Reverend Horton” Heath, Jimbo Wallace and Paul Simmons have produced Laughin’ and Cryin,’ a record full of country-heavy tunes about bad habits, well-meaning but clueless husbands, expanding beer guts and the State of Texas. This album is a departure from the band’s 2004 hard-driving punkabilly Revival. Heath’s goal was to capture the feelings of music from the late 1950s and early ‘60s. Over 20 years, the Reverend has won a cult following with an almost endless touring ethic and musical style. A mythic stage presence turns rock clubs into psychobilly tent revivals across America 300 times a year.

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Jason Boland & The Stragglers
High in the Rockies: A Live Album is Jason Boland & The Stragglers’ most recent release. A collection of red-dirt country by the Texas-based quintet, High in the Rockies was recorded on four consecutive nights at January, 2010 performances in Colorado and Wyoming. Boland and The Stragglers, comprised of lead guitarist Roger Ray, fiddler Noah Jeffries, bassist Grant Tracy and drummer Brad Rice, have become one of the fastest-rising forces in contemporary country. Influenced by legends like Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, High in the Rockies is a blend of the progressive and traditional.

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- Corpus Christi’s own HOBO formed in late 2007. Their music is a blend of old Honky Tonk and psychedelic sounds of the late 1960s. South Texas, beer, money troubles and fried chicken are topics in songs about life, death and everything in between from this eclectic act.

- The Britt Lloyd Band (2003) has quenched a thirst for new, edgy and intriguing music in Texas and the south. BLB is at the crossroads of rock and country music. Unlabeled (2006) and The Ink (2008), featuring “That Kind” have firmly established BLB in the Texas Music scene. Lloyd, Steve Speer and Thomas Kilgore comprise the band.

- Timmy Curran is a retired professional surfer and spokesman for the Surfrider Foundation. One of the top surfers on the World Championship Tour, Curran pioneered the sport’s “Aerial Revolution” of the late 1990s. He’s famous for completing a full-rotation, upside-down flip at Rocky Point, Hawaii, in 2005. Curran has two albums to his credit: Word of Mouth (2007) and VerseS (March). “Blue Eyes,” a single off his debut album, reached VH1’s Top 20 countdown. He’s toured worldwide with artists like the Foo Fighters, Incubus, Switchfoot and Angels & Airwaves. Curran also has a new surf film, “The Union Express.” His music is acoustic/alternative influenced by Jack Johnson, G Love and Ben Harper.