George Strait Tickets – Another Summerfest to Celebrate By Jenna Jay At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

George Strait has consistently been one of the top-selling country music artists to grace the Nashville scene over the last few decades, and it’s only fitting that this contemporary country icon should land a slot as the first headliner at the world’s largest music festival. Summerfest, heralded as the largest music festival by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999, is the event of the year for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it has just been announced that Strait will perform at next year’s event, which will take place from June 25 to July 5, 2009.

The annual Summerfest event took form in 1968, when then-Mayor Maier started the festival in an attempt to bring pride and attention to Milwaukee’s downtown. Summerfest came about after Maier was inspired by a visit to Oktoberfeset in Munich, Germany, and the “Milwaukee World Festival,” which eventually turned into “Summerfest,” took off from there.
The incredible George Strait will take his fun-loving country music act to the big stage (or one of them, anyway) next summer at Milwaukee’s 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park for the 10-day event, performing alongside all the big names in the music industry. Last year’s list of performers included LeAnn Rimes, Gnarls Barkley, Little Big Town, Three Dog Night and more, and Summerfest’s upcoming lineup is sure to promise just as many stellar acts to perform on one of the event’s 12 stages, including the 23,000 seat Marcus Amphitheater for headlining acts such as George Strait.

Before he was headlining the world’s biggest music affairs, the outstanding vocalist Strait was toying around with rock ‘n’ roll music in a garage band as a teenager in Pearsall, Texas, where he was born and raised in the 1950s and ‘60s. After graduating from high school, Straight enrolled in college but dropped out and married his high school love, also enlisting in the Army. Stationed in Hawaii, Straight started playing gigs with an Army-sponsored country band called Rambling Country, and by the time he left the Army in 1975 the young Texan was left with a mouthful of music he couldn’t quite spit out. Straight spent a short span of time at Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, studying agriculture while developing the makings of his own country band Ace in the Hole. Ace in the Hole furthered George Strait’s music dream, but ultimately he was signed onto MCA Records as a solo country artist in 1980, putting his name on the map for the first time with the hit single “Unwound” in 1981. As soon as the country crooner touched his feet down on Nashville soil with “Unwound,” the hits started flooding in. Strait breezed through the rest of the ‘80s with smash singles such as “If You’re Thinking You Want a Stranger (There’s One Coming Home)” and “Fool Hearted Memory,” diving right into the ‘90s with “I Cross My Heart,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Heartland,” “Blue Clear Sky” and “True.”

These days, George Strait is still burning up the country music charts, also making hearts skip a beat with his crooked smile and gentle nature. Strait has met screaming crowds with George Strait tickets onstage armed with nothing but a microphone and a guitar, singing the peaceful country summer nights away with his sweet down home anthems. The country music icon most recently released his new single “River of Love” at the 2008 CMA Awards Show, where he was honored with the Single of the Year Award for the hit song “I Saw God Today,” also bringing home top honors for Album of the Year with Troubadour, taking his grand total of CMA Awards to 22. This longtime country legend is nowhere near retirement, so check out http://www.stubhub.com/george-strait-tickets to get concert tickets to an upcoming George Strait show!

Published At: Isnare Free Articles Directory http://www.isnare.com
Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=330775&ca=Entertainment

Important Notice DISCLAIMER: All information, content, and data in this article are sole opinions and/or findings of the individual user or organization that registered and submitted this article at Isnare.com without any fee. The article is strictly for educational or entertainment purposes only and should not be used in any way, implemented or applied without consultation from a professional. We at Isnare.com do not, in anyway, contribute or include our own findings, facts and opinions in any articles presented in this site. Publishing this article does not constitute Isnare.com's support or sponsorship for this article. Isnare.com is an article publishing service. Please read our Terms of Service for more information.