If you’re making your weekend plans Meadowbrook U.S. Celluar Pavilion has a busy weekend.
Gilford, N.H. – The Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion will host several concerts this weekend.
Tickets for all shows are still available at the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion box office, charge by phone, call (603) 293-4700 or visit www.meadowbrook.net.
Friday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m.
Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ranked as one of the best-selling bands of all time by the Recording Industry Association of America, and their indelible southern rock anthem “Sweet Home Alabama” has been downloaded as a ringtone more than one million times, illustrating the band’s long-lived, cross-generational appeal. No list of southern rock classics could be complete without the inclusion of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Saturday Night Special,” “Gimme Three Steps,” and “What’s Your Name?” These Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have released almost 65 albums with 26 million sold to date.
Joan Jett was one of the most important voices in the creation on the punk rock scene, and her huge success has taken the form of eight platinum albums, eight gold albums, and nine Top 40 singles including “Bad Reputation,” “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” “Do You Want to Touch Me,” “Crimson and Clover,” and “I Love Rock and Roll.” Her successes continue with her recent wildly successful tours, an upcoming greatest hits compilation with two new tracks, and Rolling Stone Magazine naming her one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Saturday, Aug. 22, 8 p.m.
The Moody Blues. The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that shimmering jewel vindicating rock music as a substantial artistic contribution to Western culture. The Moody Blues have lit up the hearts and minds of millions of rock fans with inspiring anthems that express universal themes of love, compassion and peace. From being immortalized in such national advertisement campaigns as the current TV ad for VISA featuring “Tuesday Afternoon,” The Moody Blues are embedded in not only music history but in pop culture.
Sunday, Aug. 23, 6:30 p.m.
Judas Priest. Judas Priest are pioneers of the heavy metal genre and were forerunners of the ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’ movement, laying the groundwork for the speed and thrash metal of the 80s and 90s.
Their second album Sad Wings of Destiny is considered as one of the most influential album for metal. Their “twin axe attack” became a trademark for the group that produced hits such as “Living After Midnight,” “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’,” “Breaking the Law.” “Judas Rising,” ”Hell Bent for Leather” and “heading Out to the Highway.”
In 2003, the Judas Priest’s 1990 lineup was restored when Rob Halford returned to the group after rekindling the relationship during work on Judas Priest’s 4-CD career retrospective “Metalogy.” In 2004 the band played Ozzfest and released a CD of new studio material entitled “Angel of Retribution”. After an emotional reunion and extensive tour, the band released “Nostradamus.” The double CD has 23 tracks and was Judas Priest’s first conceptual album based upon the life and predictions of Nostradamus.
Pop Evil has toured consistently since the release of Lipstick on the Mirror with a combination of headline dates and “Special Guest” support with Puddle of Mudd, Tesla, Theory of a Deadman, P.O.D. and Saliva. The band has received significant national air time for hits such as “Hero,” “100 in a 55,” and “Somebody Like You.”
Monday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m.
The Allman Brothers Band with Widespread Panic. In 1971, George Kimball of the Rolling Stone Magazine hailed them as “the best damn rock and roll band” of “the past five years.” Rolling Stone ranked them 52nd on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004. The band’s unique mixture of jazz, classical music, hard rock, and blues which culminated in such hits as “Statesboro Blues”, “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”, “One Way Out”, “Dreams”, “Blue Sky”, “Melissa”, “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More”, “Mountain Jam”, “Ramblin’ Man” and “Jessica”.
In 1989 The Allman Brothers reunited and returned to popular consciousness of the American public and the start of regular appearances on the American summer outdoor amphitheatre circuit. In 1995, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1996 they won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for “Jessica”.
