Concert

End your day with a night of country music, great food, and a beverage garden at the FRY fest concert featuring country star Sara Evans! Special guest Lee Brice will kick-off the night on the Two Rivers Bank & Trust stage at 7:00 PM. All proceeds from the concert and beverage garden benefit Coralville’s 4thFest celebrations.

At 8:30 PM, multi-platinum RCA recording artist, Sara Evans, will take the stage.  Evans has been honored with numerous accolades, among them the 2006 Academy of Country Music’s Female Vocalist of the Year and the Country Music Association’s Video of the Year for “Born to Fly.” She has been named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” and won the hearts of television viewers as the first-ever country star to compete in ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.  She enjoys a prolific recording career with over 5 million records sold and 5 chart topping number one Country singles including the self penned “Born To Fly.”

2011 marks the release of her highly anticipated sixth studio album “Stronger” which debuted at #1 for two weeks and features the Platinum smash multi-week #1 single “A Little Bit Stronger.”  Evans received award nominations for Single of the year and Female vocalist of the year at the 2011 CMA, AMA, and ACA awards. The year also brought the release of her second novel “Softly and Tenderly,” the 2nd in a 3 book series published by Thomas Nelson.  Evans is currently touring nationwide with Rascal Flatts.

Lee Brice opens for Evans at 7:00 PM.  Brice walks a path between traditional honky tonk sounds and contemporary rock & roll. Brice has charted a string of singles beginning in 2007 with “She Ain’t Right,” followed by “Happy Endings” and “Upper Middle Class White Trash.” As an artist, his breakthrough came when “Love Like Crazy” was released in September 2009. With a slow but consistent build at country radio, the single eventually peaked at No. 3 on Billboard‘s country songs chart. Spending a total of 56 weeks on the country songs chart, the track made history by breaking Eddy Arnold’s 54-week stay on the chart with “Bouquet of Roses,” which debuted in May 1948. Most currently Brice had his highest-charting single “A Woman Like You” which reached #1 in April 2012.