Concert

The 2011 concert was a night of Country music.  Iowa natives, 8 Seconds, kicked-off the night for one of Country’s hottest stars, Josh Turner.  The night also featured great food, a beverage garden, and bull riding!  That’s right – bull-riding! We teamed up with Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon to bring Spanky (the mechanical bull) into the beverage garden.

All proceeds from the concert and beverage garden benefited Coralville’s 4thFest celebrations.

At 8:30 pm, Grammy® nominated Country star Josh Turner took the stage. Named by People magazine as one of Country’s Hottest Stars,  Turner has celebrated back-to-back multi-week #1 radio singles and back-to-back platinum and gold albums; Long Black Train (platinum), Your Man (certified double platinum) and Everything Is Fine (gold).  Turner’s first single, “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” from the latest project, Haywire (also released as a deluxe edition), celebrated four-weeks at #1, won the American Country Award for Single of the Year Male and was the most played song on country radio in 2010 according to Mediabase. “All Over Me,” the second single from Haywire, recently became Turner’s fourth  #1 hit.

Turner, one of the youngest members of the distinguished Grand Ole Opry, is also the youngest member to be inducted into Nashville’s Walk of Fame.  With his passion to support music and the arts, he launched The Josh Turner Fund that awarded its second scholarship recipient in 2010.

Hit singles include “Would You Go With Me,” “Your Man,” “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” “Firecracker,” “Me and God” and “Long Black Train.”

8 Seconds, presented by Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, kicked-off the show at 6:30 pm.  This high energy group of Cedar Rapids natives formed in 2000 and have been growing in popularity ever since.  The group plays over 100 times a year and has opened for many national acts including Tracy Byrd, Dierks Bentley, Josh Gracin, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Billy Currington, Justin Moore, Randy Houser, and Josh Thompson.