Country
music’s rising stars and reality competition winners Scotty McCreery and
Danielle Bradbery will perform at the 8th Annual Country in the Park outdoor
music festival. The free outdoor event is Saturday, May 10 from 2 p.m. to 8
p.m. at Exploration Park, located at 9275 So. Buffalo Drive in Mountain’s Edge.
Country in the Park is presented by the best-selling Mountain’s Edge Master
Planned Community and New Country 95.5 The Bull.
In
addition to the concert, Country in the Park will feature a beer garden, food
vendors, booths, exhibits and more. Guests are welcome to bring blankets,
picnic baskets, chairs and well-behaved, leashed pets, and enjoy festivities in
Exploration Park’s amphitheater with its scenic mountain backdrop. The 80-acre park also has an Old Western
village, Native American play structures, archeological dig area, splash pad,
picnic areas, and the 2,846-foot-tall Exploration Peak with hiking and cycling
trails and panoramic views of the Las Vegas Valley.
McCreery
won the 10th season of American Idol in May 2011 and has continued to soar with
the help of enthusiastic fans and Billboard Top 20 songs, including “I Love You
This Big” and “The Trouble with Girls.” In just a few years, he’s became one of
country’s hottest new stars, with album sales topping 1.6 million, including a
platinum-selling debut album, Clear As Day, that made Billboard history and
helped him win several new artist awards. It was followed with highly regarded
albums, See You Tonight and Christmas with Scotty McCreery, which yielded more
hit songs and accolades.
Bradbery,
the 17-year-old singing sensation and recent winner of Season 4 of NBC’s The
Voice, opens for McCreery. She was the
youngest contestant to come in first place on the hit television show. With her
self-titled debut album, Danielle Bradbery, she is currently on tour with
country heartthrob Hunter Hayes and Dan + Shay on the We’re Not Invisible Tour.
Rounding
out Country in the Park line-up is local favorite The Tony Marques Band. Tony
Marques and his band have been mainstays at Country in the Park and are known
for their high energy and crowd-pleasing personalities as they perform
legendary cover songs and some emerging original music. The Tony Marques Band
appears regularly at Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar and Grill” at Harrah’s Hotel
and Casino and Margaritaville Restaurant and Bar at the Flamingo Hotel.
Performance
times are The Tony Marques Band from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by Danielle
Bradbery from 5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m., and culminating with Scotty McCreery from 6
p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Times are subject to change.
For
information and updates about Country in the Park, visit www.mountainsedge.com
or www.facebook.com/MyMountainsEdge.
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