Thanks For The Music

The 2018 Tree Town Music Festival is set to return to Forest City, IA over Memorial Day weekend with stellar headliners Keith Urban, Cole Swindell, Eddie Money, ALABAMA and Charlie Daniels Band to head the star-powered lineup each night.  Produced by Basis Entertainment, the four-day festival will be held on May 24-27, 2018 at Heritage Park.

Now in its fifth year, Tree Town Music Festival has quickly established itself as a staple entertainment destination during one of America’s favorite holiday weekends--Memorial Day weekend.  The four-day music festival, that includes two stages and plenty of food vendors and camping, will kick off with its rock night on Thursday May 24, 2018 to the double-platinum sounds of Eddie Money headlining the night.  Money burst onto the scene with his eponymous debut album in 1977. Fans immediately fell in love with Money’s sound, and the album, which went double platinum, featured hits like “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise.” Money followed the success of his debut album with a stream of Top 40 hits, as well as some of the era’s most creative videos for songs like “Think I’m in Love” and “Shakin.” In 1986, Money released Can’t Hold Back, which featured the classic, Grammy-Nominated duet with Ronnie Spector, “Take Me Home Tonight.” The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum and also featured the hit “I Wanna Go Back.”

Cole Swindell On Friday night, the record-breaking, platinum-selling, country hit maker Cole Swindell will hit the mains stage to headline and kick-off the weekend.  Swindell released his second album You Should Be Here and it shot to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Country Albums Chart and No. 3 All Genre within hours of release. The album is now certified Gold by the RIAA. Its lead single and title track held a four week run on top of Billboard’s Hot Country songs chart (tally of digital streams, radio airplay and sales) in addition to multiple weeks sitting at No. 1 on country airplay. His Platinum-certified “You Should Be Here” already boasts over 115 million streams, 1.6 MILLION+ track equivalents and over 52 million YouTube views. The career-defining single surpassed over 1 BILLION audience impressions. The song joins Swindell’s six other No. 1 consecutive singles as a solo artist (including Gold-certified hits “Let Me See Ya Girl” and his last No. 1 and Platinum-certified “Middle of a Memory” along with Platinum-certified hits “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight,” “Ain’t Worth The Whiskey,” “Chillin’ It” from his Platinum selling self-titled debut album). This tops his own record of being the only solo artist in the history of Country Aircheck/Mediabase to top the chart with his first SEVEN singles. Swindell was nominated in June for the 2017 CMT Video of the Year Award for his No. 1 single “Middle of a Memory.” Earlier this year, the Georgia native was awarded his second CMA “Triple Play Award” for penning three No. 1 songs within the last 12 months (“Ain’t Worth The Whiskey,” “Let Me See Ya Girl,” “You Should Be Here”).  To date, Swindell has sold 2 million total album equivalents in the three years since his debut, including 5.8 million+ tracks sold and over 715 million on-demand streams.  For more information and tour dates, please visit www.coleswindell.com and follow @coleswindell on Twitter, @cswinde2 on Instagram and on Facebook.

Keith Urban As previously announced, four-time Grammy winner Keith Urban will headline Saturday night at Tree Town to perform many of his hits from his platinum album RIPCORD, which produced five #1 songs including “Wasted Time,” “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” and “The Fighter,” which is Urban’s 23rd #1 song, his 7th consecutive, and continued his streak as the artist with the most consecutive top 10 songs on Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart (38) - a streak that started in August of 2000. A groundbreaking album for Urban, RIPCORD marked the second time that one of his albums debuted simultaneously atop the all-genre charts in the U.S., Canada and Australia.  He is the only male Country artist to achieve this mark, not just once, but twice.  In 2017, he has earned five nominations for the 2017 CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year for “Blue Ain’t Your Color.” Earlier this year, Urban was also the most awarded artist at the 2017 CMT Music Awards with four wins including Video of the Year, Male Video of the Year, and Social Superstar. The premier songwriter, vocalist, musician and virtuoso guitarist has earned four Grammy Awards, ten Country Music Association awards, eleven Academy of Country Music Awards, a People’s Choice and an American Music Award and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. He’s also a member of the Grand Ole Opry.Fans can keep up-to-date by visiting www.KeithUrban.net.

To wrap up the four-day festival, not one, but two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame will take the stage on Sunday—legendary vocal group ALABAMA and the Charlie Daniels Band.

Charlie Daniels Charlie Daniels careers has spanned nearly 60 years and has exceeded 20 million in sales worldwide. For decades, he has connected with his millions of fans in the varying genres of music that reflect his steadfast refusal to label his music as anything other than the "Charlie Daniels Band" sound — music that is now sung around the fire at 4-H Club and scout camps, helped elect an American President, and been popularized on a variety of radio formats. Having celebrated multiple GRAMMY® Awards, CMA Awards, ACM Awards, BMI Awards, GMA Dove Awards, CCMA Awards, his list of accolades is broad; the latest being the newest inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Several of his albums have been RIAA Certified Multi-Platinum® and he has achieved a platinum-selling single in his iconic fiddle-ridden hit, "Devil Went Down To Georgia." An outspoken American patriot and strong supporter of the U.S. military, his talked-about Volunteer Jam concerts are world-famous musical extravaganzas featuring artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, Trace Adkins, Alabama and others, all on one stage for one purpose – to raise funds for our U.S. military. Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam in 2016 raised funds for The Journey Home Project, a non-profit veterans assistance organization which he co-founded. For more information on Charlie Daniels, visit www.charliedaniels.com.

For the incomparable vocal group ALABAMA, its been over 40 years since Randy, Jeff and Teddy, left the cotton farms of Fort Payne, Alabama, to spend the summer playing in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina bar called The Bowery.  ALABAMA is the band that changed everything. They brought country music to the mainstream and from side stage to the main stage.  They have also inspired many of today’s brightest country stars including Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan as well as pop and rock stars from Ed Sheeran to Jon Bon Jovi.  While their music continues to stand the test of time, their numbers and stats are beyond compare. They have charted 43 #1 singles including 21 #1 singles in a row, a record that will likely never be surpassed in any genre. They have won over 178 CMA Awards, Grammy Awards, ACM Awards and counting. They’ve earned 21 Gold ®, Platinum ® and Multi-Platinum ® albums and were named the RIAA's Country Group of the Century. They are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and have a start on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They are also world-class philanthropists who have raised over 250 Million dollars for charity.

Campsites and ticket packages are available now with general four-day general admission at $125 and VIP packages at $500.  Camping starts at $95 and four-day Rockin’ Range is available for $225.  Tickets will stay at the current price until the increase on October 13, 2017.  For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the festival website at www.TreeTownFestival.com.