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(CORPUS CHRISTI) – Tickets to this year’s Ziegfest Texas Music Festival at Whataburger Field are on sale now!

Robert Earl Keen, Jack Ingram and Reckless Kelly headline the October 22 event, with more artists to be revealed. In celebration of H-E-B’s partnership and the ninth year of Ziegfest Music Festivals, special $9 tickets will be offered for the first nine days of the on-sale. Visit the Whataburger Field box office, or call (361) 561-4665 Click here to purchase online.

Ziegfest is also presented by Ziegenbock, Ryan Sanders Entertainment and L&F Distributors. Media partners are K-99, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Grande Communications.

ROBERT EARL KEEN
Keen is one of country music’s most prolific writers and artists.  He’s had his songs recorded by George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, the Dixie Chicks and the Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson); appeared in prestigious publications like Men’s Journal; performed on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and The Today Show; had Garth Brooks mention his music in one of his own songs, and played concert venues steadily for more than 20 years.

Keen consistently plays sold-out shows for audiences that number sometimes as many as 25,000.

JACK INGRAM
Ingram started his music career singing at a friend's bar near the Texas Christian University campus in Fort Worth. He then landed on the U.S. Country Top 40 charts in late 2005 with the song "Wherever You Are", going all the way to #1—one of the first songs he recorded for his Big Machine record label. A chart regular ever since, he's performed nationwide tours with Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Sheryl Crow, and many more, as well as at the Austin City Limits music festival multiple times, the Country Throwdown Tour, the Houston Rodeo, San Antonio Rodeo, and Austin Rodeo to name only a few.

There's a reason his style resonates with fans. Ingram's songs are authentic and cut straight to the heart, talking about life, love and all that goes with it. And it's clear after talking to him for only a few minutes, that it's no accident that he's the same way.

In fact, he's adamant about only supporting those businesses, products and causes that he's also a fan of himself. And that's why he wanted to partner with H-E-B. "If I'm going to do something for a client, I need to already use the product or the business," he says. "You want to be authentic about it."

RECKLESS KELLY
Willy, (lead singer/guitar), brother Cody (vocals/fiddle/mandolin/harmonica), David Abeyta (lead guitar/vocals), Jimmy McFeeley (bass guitar) and Jay Nazz (drums) comprise Reckless Kelly. The band is named for 19th century Australian bank robber Ned Kelly and originated in the Pacific Northwest.

For the Brauns, music has always been a family affair. Father Muzzie Braun and the Boys played western swing regionally as well as on the Grand Ole Opry stage and The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.

Younger brothers Micky and Gary Braun are frontmen of their own band, Micky & The Motorcars.

Reckless Kelly migrated from Bend, Oregon, to Austin in 1997. Self-released debut album Millican (1998) sold over 20,000 units. The Austin Chronicle named RK "Best Roots Rock Band" three years running. After an acoustic album, Live at Stubbs, and another studio album on their own label, The Day, they released Under the Table and Above the Sun on Sugar Hill in 2003. Wicked Twisted Road (2005) and Reckless Kelly Was Here (2006) were other Sugar Hill releases before Yep Roc’s Bulletproof (2008) and Somewhere in Time (2010), a tribute to Pinto Bennett.

“Ragged as the Road” from Bulletproof reached No. 1 on both the Americana and Texas charts. “American Blood” netted Willy Braun honorable mention for the 2009 International Songwriter’s Award.

Since 2009, Reckless Kelly’s Celebrity Softball Jam at The Dell Diamond in Round Rock has raised over $100,000 to benefit youth sports facility restoration and renovation in Central Texas, including The Miracle Leagues at Town & Country, North Austin and San Antonio. In addition to bleachers, concession stands and storage areas, Miracle League fields require special construction materials for developmentally disabled baseball and softball players as they compete on completely flat, rubberized surfaces.