A 75-year-old rock n’ roll icon who was the frontman for the British group Led Zeppelin is coming to the Edmonton People Music Pageant this summer time to carry out with a well-known country-bluegrass singer.
“This is likely one of the most enjoyable bookings within the historical past of our competition,” competition producer Terry Wickham mentioned in a information launch Tuesday that exposed Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will headline the competition on Aug. 11.
“(It’s) a superb method to shut on Sunday night time.”
British singer Robert Plant, proper, and American singer Alison Krauss, left, carry out on the Auditorium Stravinski stage in the course of the 56th Montreux Jazz Pageant (MJF), in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 13, 2022.
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Krauss beforehand carried out on the long-running competition that takes place yearly in Gallagher Park. She carried out on the occasion with Union Station in 2005. Wickham famous this shall be Plant’s debut on the competition.
In 2007, Plant and Krauss launched the album Elevating Sand which was met with widespread crucial acclaim.
The Edmonton People Music Pageant’s organizers describe the report as “an unlikely, mesmerizing pairing of one in all rock’s biggest frontmen with one in all nation music’s best and most honoured artists, produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett.”
In 2021, the duo launched Elevate the Roof which went on obtain a number of Grammy nominations.
The 2024 version of the Edmonton People Music Pageant is scheduled to happen from Aug. 8 to Aug. 11.
The total competition lineup shall be introduced on Might 28 and competition organizers say tickets will go on sale on June 1.
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