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Festival News: RoSfest Announces Wishbone Ash To Perform At Festival

Posted on Saturday, September 29 @ 17:10:40 UTC by nightowl

RoSfest is honored to announce Wishbone Ash on May 4th 2008 as our third band.

Wishbone Ash is the pioneering British twin-lead guitar band that features founding guitarist Andy Powell, whose name is often associated with the Gibson Flying V. The lineup also includes Finnish guitar slinger Muddy Manninen plus longtime rhythm section of bassist Bob Skeat & drummer Ray Weston. Formed in London 1969, Wishbone Ash garnered notice in the early days for a unique blend of blues, jazz and English folk. But it was the way the guitars played melodic leads together that would become Wishbone Ash's trademark. inspiring such bands as Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden. Throughout the years, many notable musicians have contributed their talents to the band, including Asia's John Wetton, Trevor Bolder from David Bowie's Spiders From Mars and Uriah Heep, and Laurie Wisefield, who would later play guitar for Joe Cocker and Tina Turner.



The aptly named Eternity Tour, will take in two tours both of the United States and U.K. plus a full German tour in January, while making stops in Holland, Belgium, France and Denmark. The idea is to promote several different products on release. The band's CD of new material, The Power Of Eternity, will go on release in the U.K. in the first week of October, on the Talking Elephant label while Sanctuary Records will handle the release throughout the rest of the world. Wishbone Ash has released nearly 40 albums and six DVDs, performed on five continents, and received worldwide acclaim. The band regularly plays more than 150 shows a year, delivering the goods to an ever-growing number of appreciative fans of all ages.

Be sure to come out and support Wishbone Ash and catch them on May 4th, 2008 as this is the only scheduled east coast gig that the band will perform before departing for a west coast tour planned in early 2008.

Be sure to head on over to the RoSfest website and check out the Wishbone Ash page www.rosfest.com/Performers-2008/Wishbone_Ash.htm

Also wanted to let everyone know that the RoSfest website is moving to a new server so we may be experiencing some technical difficulties on the site. The site will be moved in a few days and all the glitches should be taken care of. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Source: George Roldan & Tom Smith, RoSFest]

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