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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">For Immediate Release: Tu May 28, 2013</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">Contact: Bridget Lee-Calfas, Advertising and Publicity Director, 217.766.2820,
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.ellnoraguitarfestival.com/"></a><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="x_Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://ellnoraguitarfestival.com/"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">ELLNORA
| The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center</span></a>: </font><span style="font-size:10.5pt">September 5-7, 2013</span><font class="x_Apple-style-span" size="4"></font></b></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.ellnoraguitarfestival.com/updates.htm">Honoring Guitar Gods: Dweezil Zappa and Sheryl Bailey Pay Tribute to Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix</a></b></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">The second-born child of independent music pioneer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Frank Zappa first took the stage with his famous father at the
tender age of 12. He was entranced by the elder Zappa’s “control over the music [that] almost seemed like a magic trick.” By the mid-1980s, he was contributing his own riffs to Frank’s albums such as
<i>Them or Us </i>and finding an artistic identity of his own as an actor, MTV VJ, and Grammy Award-winning musician. For this first family-sanctioned tribute to Frank Zappa, who passed away in 1993, Dweezil and company will take on all tracks from the classic
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Oblique"">Roxy & Elsewhere</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman""> to commemorate its 40th anniversary and celebrate the iconoclastic views of an artist whose “eccentric
genius was undeniable” (<i>The Rolling Stone Album Guide</i>).</span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Avenir 55 Roman'; font-size:14px"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">With The Hendrix Electric Ladyland Project, the rock of guitar god Jimi Hendrix makes a rendezvous with jazz in a supercharged showcase of electric virtuosity. Sheryl Bailey,
whose burning jazz work captivated ELLNORA crowds in 2011, knows “everybody loves Hendrix,” and when she joins forces with fellow jazz guitar favorite Vic Juris, bassist Lincoln Goines, and drummer Tommy Campbell, numbers like “The Midnight Lamp,” “Manic Depression,”
“The Wind Cries Mary,” and “Castles Made of Sand” speak anew in inspired interpretations on the astounding Hendrix continuum.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy"">The full lineup for ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center (September 5-7, 2013) will be released on June 11. Please visit </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy""><a href="http://www.ellnoraguitarfestival.com/default.htm"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">EllnoraGuitarFestival.com</span></a> for
information on previous festivals and for up-to-the-minute announcements.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Oblique"">About ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival: <span style="">Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is situated on the campus of the University of Illinois,
in the micro-urban community of Champaign-Urbana, and is North America’s premier university-based performing arts complex. ELLNORA</span> | <span style="">The Guitar Festival (originally called the Wall to Wall Guitar Festival), held biennially, was launched
in 2005 and through its eclectic global mix has presented many of the world’s most influential guitarists and bands, including Buddy Guy, Ani DiFranco, Luther Dickinson, Jerry Douglas, Pepe Romero, John McLaughlin, Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, Derek Trucks,
Richard Thompson, Kaki King, Andy Summers, The National, Los Lobos, and the North Mississippi Allstars.</span></span></p>
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