The Charlie Daniels Band and Chuck Wicks are coming to the Daytona Beach area October 17th, 2009!

PRLog (Press Release) - Sep 15, 2009 -
MEDIA CONTACT:  Ramara Garrett
Horizon Events
Ramara@HorizonEventsDaytona.com / 386-322-3600

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

What:   First Annual Jam For America Featuring “The Charlie Daniels Band”
When:   October 17th, 2009
Where:  Edgewater Ranch  Edgewater, FL  (I-95 and SR 442)
             
DAYTONA BEACH, FL – Music Industry Legend Charlie Daniels will be the headliner at a special “Jam for America” outdoor music festival on Saturday, October 17th 2009 during Daytona Biketoberfest.  Also performing will be RCA Recording Artist Chuck Wicks, with his Top 5 hit “Stealing Cinderella”.

This event will bring together thousands of music fans, patriotic party patrons and tea-party town-hallers…along with several motorcycle freedom rides. A first for Daytona Biketoberfest, this music festival is being presented by Dustin’s BBQ and Horizon Events.

The gates of Edgewater Ranch at the intersection/exit of I-95 and SR-442 will open at 4pm with several gifted local artists entertaining the crowd before the main event when Chuck Wicks followed by The Charlie Daniels Band take the stage.

There will be plenty of food and drinks at this outdoor music festival, along with ample free parking! The concert will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project through Waverly Roots & Shoots which is affiliated with The Jane Goodall Foundation.
The event is being sponsored by a number of well known local businesses including Dustin’s Bar-B-Q, Waverly Property Group, and WakeUpDaytona! with Doug Kosarek.
Tickets are only $10.00 in advance and $15.00 on day of show, and will be available at any Brevard or Volusia County Dustin’s Bar-B-Q Restaurant beginning Monday September 21, 2009 with additional ticket outlets to be announced soon.

For information regarding sponsorship opportunities, vendor space or concert details please contact Horizon Events at 386-322-3600.







About Charlie Daniels: Charlie Daniels is an All-American musician famous for his contributions to both country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written as a singer since the 1950’s. He won a Grammy in 1979 and was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008

His first hit, the novelty song "Uneasy Rider", was from his 1973 second album, Honey in the Rock, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1974, Daniels organized the first in a series of Volunteer Jam concerts based in or around Nashville, Tennessee. These world famous musical extravaganzas served as a prototype for many of today's annual day-long music marathons, always featured a variety of current stars and heritage artists and are considered by historians as his most impressive contribution to Southern music. In 1975, he had a top 30 hit as leader of the Charlie Daniels Band with the Southern rock self-identification anthem "The South's Gonna Do It Again". "Long Haired Country Boy" was also a minor hit in that year.
Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached #3 on the charts. The following year, "Devil" became a major crossover success on rock radio stations. The song is by far Daniels' greatest success, still receiving regular airplay on U.S. classic rock and country stations, and is well-known even among audiences who eschew country music in general. Subsequent Daniels pop hits included "In America" (#11 in 1980), "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" (#31 in 1980), and "Still in Saigon" (#22 in 1982). In 1980, Daniels participated in the country music concept album, The Legend of Jesse James. By 1981, the Charlie Daniels Band had twice been voted the Academy of Country Music's touring band of the year.
Daniels has never shied away from politics. "The South's Gonna Do It" had a mild message of Southern cultural identity within the Southern rock movement. Daniels was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter's presidential bid and performed at his January 1977 inauguration. "In America" was a reaction to the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united America where "we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank / That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks." The song experienced a revival following the September 11 attacks, when it re-circulated around the internet. "Still in Saigon" was a portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam veteran ten years after the war.
In 1990, Daniels' country hit "Simple Man" struck a chord. Lyrics such as "Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest," got Daniels considerable media attention and talk show visits. Daniels has made statements like, "I am more afraid of you and your ilk than I am of the terrorists," regarding U.S. Senator Harry Reid and On March 27, 2009, Daniels criticized the Obama Administration for changing the name of the War on Terror to the "Overseas Contingency Operation" and referring to terrorism as "man-caused disasters".
But instead of being a one-sided partisan politico, he is first and foremost a PATRIOT…Charlie has been to Iraq several times to support and play for the troops. On his fourth visit he recorded an album, Charlie Daniels Band live in Iraq (2007 Blue Hat Records).
Daniels was born in Wilmington North Carolina and now resides in Mount Juliet, TN, where the city has named a park after him. Daniels continues to tour regularly, including many appearances this year as part of the Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts around the country.



About Chuck Wicks: He took the country format by storm with his Top 5 debut single, “Stealing Cinderella,” and his Top 15 follow-up hit, “All I Ever Wanted” (and recently earned a whole new audience of fans as a celebrity contestant paired with real-life girlfriend Julianne Hough on the ABC mega-hit Dancing with the Stars). When he performs, there’s a warm, self-assured quality to his voice, and his songs echo the hopes, fears and dreams of today’s Americans.

“When You’re Single” is a look at solitary life and the desire to be in love. On the other hand, “She’s Gonna Hurt Somebody” is an up-tempo ode to a woman who has been done wrong and is looking for revenge. “Man of the House,” Wicks’ newest single, is about a young boy trying to help take care of his family while his father is away serving in the war.

The mega-hit single, “Stealing Cinderella,” is about a guy asking his girlfriend’s dad for her hand in marriage and seeing all the photos of her growing up. It’s obvious she’s the apple of her dad’s eye, but to him, the young man is “just some fella, riding in and stealing Cinderella.” “There are a lot of great songs that I can’t wait to get to, but as far as coming out of the box as a new artist, we wanted something that would stand out,” says Wicks of the song, which was inspired by a girlfriend whose job was playing Cinderella at Disney World. “Just the title alone, ‘Stealing Cinderella,’ makes you want to listen to it, and when you listen to it, it’s such a great story. We knew it was the right choice.”