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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">For Immediate Release: Tu, Aug 20, 2013</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">Contact: Bridget Lee-Calfas, Advertising and Publicity Director, 217.333.6282,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"; color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:bklee@illinois.edu">bklee@illinois.edu</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px"><b><a href="http://www.ellnoraguitarfestival.com/"></a><a href="http://ellnoraguitarfestival.com/"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">ELLNORA
| The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center</span></a>: September 5-7, 2013</b></span><font class="x_Apple-style-span" face="'Avenir 85 Heavy'" size="4"></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy"">Opening Night Party Launches ELLNORA on Thursday, September 5, 2013, with $5 Quintuple Lineup</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">6:30pm: Fiona Boys Trio, Stage 5</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman""></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">7pm & 9pm: Stephane Wrembel and His Band, Amphitheatre</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">7:30pm: The Lee Boys, Stage 6</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">8:30pm: Sam Bush/Del McCoury Duo, Stage 5</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">9:45pm: Jonny Lang, Stage 6</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">On Thursday, September 5, a blues/acoustic/gypsy/gospel/bluegrass lineup ignites ELLNORA’s Opening Night Party—free parking, an all-ages crowd,
a newly minted outdoor sonic space, and a $5 ticket complete the package.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">At 6:30pm on the Lobby’s Stage 5, Aussie Fiona Boyes brings her striking soulfulness to the all-American blues. The first woman—and the only non-American—to
win the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Boyes has wailing vocals that have earned her the seal of approval from blues giants like Pinetop Perkins and Hubert Sumlin and even the playful moniker “Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin.”</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">When you’re ready for a little night air, this year’s party has two options—a new location for local food offerings, now on the Center’s southeast
terrace, and the Amphitheatre on the west terrace, where you can discover the French-born gypsy jazz musician and Woody Allen film composer Stephane Wrembel regaling us with his unique Django-, flamenco-, rock- and blues-inspired signature sound.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">Head back to the Lobby at 7:30pm—to the special “Stage 6” set up just for the Opening Night Party—and welcome The Lee Boys, who enrolled in their
musical education at the House of God Pentecostal Church in Perrine, Florida, at the knee of their pedal steel-playing pastor/grandfather Rev. Robert E. Lee. With joyful gospel roots and hard-driving R&B inflections, they stand at the forefront of the “sacred
steel” movement, lifting listeners to their feet with get-up-and-dance rhythms.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">The night keeps rolling with bluegrass legend Del McCoury and the “King of Telluride,” newgrass mandolin phenom Sam Bush. This remarkable pair will
meld unmistakable authenticity with future-shaping sounds for what promises to be an all-out episode of jamming bluegrass goodness starting at 8:30pm on Stage 5.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">Closing out the night—which is just the beginning of ELLNORA 2013—is Jonny Lang, who by age 14 had already released his first album. By 17, he’d
captured his first Grammy nomination, and tours with B. B. King, the Rolling Stones, and Buddy Guy quickly followed. Now a 30-something seasoned musician, Lang has howling vocals and rock-infused runs that are certain to bring ELLNORA to a fever pitch when
he takes Stage 6 at 9:45pm.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy"">Visit </span><a href="http://KrannertCenter.com/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy"; color:windowtext">KrannertCenter.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy""> or </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy""><a href="http://www.ellnoraguitarfestival.com/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 85 Heavy"; color:windowtext">EllnoraGuitarFestival.com</span></a> to
learn more about the Opening Night Party and the entire lineup for ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center, September 5-7, 2013.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman"">ABOUT ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival: <i>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</i> | <i>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.</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Avenir 55 Roman""></span></p>
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<div>Bridget Lee-Calfas</div>
<div>Advertising and Publicity Director</div>
<div>Krannert Center for the Performing Arts</div>
<div>500 South Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801</div>
<div><a href="mailto:bklee@illinois.edu">bklee@illinois.edu</a></div>
<div>217/333-6282</div>
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