Tulip Time Announces Blues Headliner Jonny Lang

TULIP TIME ANNOUNCES BLUES HEADLINER JONNY LANG

HOLLAND, MI – February 14, 2008. The 2008 Tulip Time Festival (www.tuliptime.com) welcomes Grammy-nominated artist Jonny Lang to perform Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8pm at Central Wesleyan Auditorium, Holland, Michigan. Tickets on sale Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10am. Platinum seating is $45 and general reserved seating is $38. Tickets can be purchased through Star Tickets Plus online at www.starticketsplus.com or via the phone 1.800.585.3737. Limited platinum seating tickets can also be purchased through the Tulip Time Festival via phone 1.800.822.2770 or office located at 238 S. River Ave. Holland, MI 49423. All tickets are subject to a customer convenience charge, and an additional mailing fee when applicable.

Speaking often with his guitar in the language of deep blues and searing rock & roll this former prodigy instrumentalist, topped the Billboard New Artist charts at age 15. While kids his age were still playing high school gigs, Lang was touring with giants like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith, trading licks with mentors like B.B. King and Buddy Guy, and being lauded by U.S. News and World Report for having “the voice of a grizzled blues veteran… and guitar skills to match.”

With experience and the maturity collected through life’s adventures Lang has unleashed his most pivotal album to date, Turn Around. A soul-stirring organ, played by GRAMMY-winning producer Shannon Sanders, forecasts the surge of music that follows on Turn Around: the stomping funk of “Bump in the Road,” the startling climax that closes “The Other Side of the Fence,” the electrifying vocal exchanges with Michael McDonald on “Thankful,” and on the opposite extreme, the work-gang chant that drives “Turn Around” and the profound intimacy of “Only a Man.” Turn Around is all of this and more, a tumble of musical colors that dazzle and soothe. In the end, they achieve coherence through the meaning that Lang conveys so urgently.

A special thank you to United Federal Credit Union for sponsoring the Jonny Lang concert.

All other Tulip Time show tickets are on sale through the Tulip Time office and online including Tony Orlando, performing May 8, 2008 and Ronnie Milsap, performing May 9, 2008. Each artist will be performing at 4:30pm and 8pm at Central Wesleyan Auditorium. Ticket are $36 each. Additional fees may apply for online orders.

A special thank you to Flagstar Bank, Heinz and Transmatic for supporting Tony Orlando and Ronnie Milsap.

For more general information contact Tulip Time Festival, 238 S. River Avenue, Holland, MI 49423, 616.396.4221 or 800.822.2770, tulip [at] tuliptime [dot] com, www.tuliptime.com, Tulip Time Festival 2008 Dates: May 3-10.