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27jul7:30 pmGreat White7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Bad Authority
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Free Show – All Ages For a band to continue to thrive 40 years in the music business, the mantra must be, these songs are bigger than any one member. GRAMMY
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Free Show – All Ages
For a band to continue to thrive 40 years in the music business, the mantra must be, these songs are bigger than any one member. GRAMMY nominated hard rock legends Great White are adding onto that line with the saying: expect the unexpected. It’s rock and roll, baby. The peaks and the valleys haven’t stopped– nor has the music. Great White’s ride runs deep and its passion for the music goes beyond any depth.
Four decades in and Great White enlists Brett Carlisle to take over vocal duties and lead the charge on hit after hit. That arsenal of songs include the Grammy nominated Best Hard Rock Performance hit, “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” Great White has sold over 10 million albums worldwide, has six Top 100 Billboard hits, nine Top 200 Billboard albums, two platinum albums, and clocked the top of MTV four times.
To experience their hits live in concert—“Rock Me,” “Mista Bone,” “Save Your Love,” “House of Broken Love,” and “Lady Red Light”—is to ride an emotional wave of sultry connections, arousing lyrics, and an all-out marathon of hard-hitting orchestrations. Audiences might also hear tracks like “Stick It”, “The Angel Song”, “Big Time” or one of the many deep cuts from Great White’s 13 studio albums.
California-based Great White is Mark Kendall (guitar), Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards), Audie Desbrow (drums), Scott Snyder (bass), and Brett Carlisle (vocals). Since 1982, the Great White sound has captivated audiences worldwide with crushing, blues-based guitar riffs and swagger that invokes an emotional high for anyone that listens. The band’s core writing team of Lardie and Kendall forged numerous hits over the years, and when Desbrow joined in ’85, the grooves hooked an amazing stride. Great White 2022.
Now for more than a decade, Snyder has merged his unforgiving rhythm to Desbrow’s relentless percussion. Carlisle, born and raised in Alabama, brings a Southern rock charm laced with Bayou blue-based grit.
From an early gig at the famed Los Angeles’ Troubadour, to sharing arena stages with rock’s biggest names like Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Scorpions, to globe-trotting alongside contemporaries Slaughter, Vixen, Skid Row, Vince Neil and more – Great White continues to bring its exhilarating live performance to the masses.
BRETT CARLISLE – VOCALS
MARK KENDALL – GUITARS
MICHAEL LARDIE – GUITARS, KEYBOARDS
AUDIE DESBROW – DRUMS
SCOTT SNYDER – BASS
Sponsored By
Dawn & Jeff Koster
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
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Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
august
03aug7:30 pmTrippin' Billies7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Mockingbirds
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Free Show – All Ages Bringing fans the music of The Dave Matthews Band for close to twenty years, Trippin’ Billies has become the gold standard for tribute bands.
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Free Show – All Ages
Bringing fans the music of The Dave Matthews Band for close to twenty years, Trippin’ Billies has become the gold standard for tribute bands. Based out of Chicago, the Billies have toured extensively throughout the U.S. performing at many of the same theaters Dave himself once graced.
Comprised of some of the best musicians in Chicago, (WXRT) one need not be a diehard DMB fan to enjoy a show. The high-energy performance and caliber of musicianship will have you singing along by the second chorus. But if you are a fan of the Dave Matthews band, don’t walk, run to see this band. Relix magazine has named them top five tributes in the country for good reason, come find out why.
“The nation’s most renown, original and longest touring tribute to the Dave Matthews Band”
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
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Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
10aug7:30 pmX Ambassadors7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Free Show – All Ages Iowa’s premier water quality event this summer in the Iowa Great Lakes will culminate with a prestigious musical act on stage, X Ambassadors. X Ambassadors
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Free Show – All Ages
Iowa’s premier water quality event this summer in the Iowa Great Lakes will culminate with a prestigious musical act on stage, X Ambassadors.
X Ambassadors are a multi-platinum trio formed by brothers Sam Nelson Harris(vocals, guitar, saxophone, bass) andCasey Harris(piano, keys) while the pair were in high school in Ithaca, New York. Later joined by Adam Levin(drums) upon moving to Brooklyn, the trio have gone on to dominate the alternative charts over the last decade.
Forming in 2009, the band exploded with the success of their debut album,VHS(2015). The Platinum-certified album provides an intimate look into the childhood of Sam and Casey, and features massive hit singles “Unsteady” and “Renegades,” which have over 1.3 billion streams on Spotify combined and ledt he band to a three-year world tour. VHS was followed by ORION(2019), theBelongEP(2020), TheBeautiful Liar(2021) and (Eg)(2023), a series of collaborative singles featuring artists such as BRELAND, Teddy Swims & Jac Ross, Medium Build, and PAMÉ.
Most recently, the band unveiled a new song, “DeepEnd,” which was written for and featured in the much-anticipated movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The track is just the latest contribution the band has made to major films following “Torches”(Transformers), “Great Unknown” (The Call of theWild) and “Sucker for Pain” (Suicide Squad) among others.
Outside of X Ambassadors, Sam Nelson Harrish as had an eclectic career as a songwriter and producer for artists such as D4VD, 21 Savage, Rihanna, Lizzo, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, SZA and Maren Morris. He has also collaborated with artists including Eminem, Jay-Z, Jacob Banks, K.Flay, grandson, The Knocks, Kygo, Illenium and Machine Gun Kelly. Sam has played the world’s biggest music festivals, headlined countless nationwide and world tours, celebrated a #1 song at Alternative radio and multiple songs in the Top 10. He has recently begun releasing his own solo music for the first time under the name of Sam Nelson.
X Ambassadors will return with their new album Townie on April 5—an album that marks a compelling new chapter for the band as they return to their upstate New York roots. Across 12 deeply personal tracks, the group crafts an intricate portrait of their hometown’s most mundane aspects and the community that shaped them.
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Okoboji Blue Water Festival
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
Location
Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
16aug7:30 pmRussell Dickerson7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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David Morris
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Ticketed Event (On Sale NOW) – All Ages A Tennessee native from a musical family, those instincts have always guided the singer-songwriter – all the
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Ticketed Event (On Sale NOW) – All Ages
A Tennessee native from a musical family, those instincts have always guided the singer-songwriter – all the way from church choir to coffee-house gigs and eventually Music Row itself. But following his gut wasn’t always so cut and dried. Taught piano early on, he took up drums in high school and formed his first band, trading athletic promise for the rush of the stage and growing into an intoxicating performer. A dynamic front man who lifts crowds up on his own wild-eyed energy, with a near superhuman ability to translate fluttering hearts into musical notation, Dickerson grew up in the shadow of Music City, a kid who counted himself a student of the ‘90s and 2000s country giants. And yet, it took forgetting everything he knew to find success.
It was just after graduating from Nashville’s Belmont University that Dickerson first hit the road. Wielding an independent spirit and a rich vocal – plus a drive to succeed and an SUV – he’d pack up and head out with his self-written songs, often relying on his wife Kailey for not just inspiration, but photography, video production and more. As the odometer racked up miles, though, it became tough figuring out “something country fans would like,” Dickerson admits. But still, he forged on.
“I told myself ‘I’m just gonna keep going,” Dickerson explains. “‘I’m gonna keep driving my run down SUV all across America playing for 25 people and 250 bucks a night, until something happens.” Something did happen, of course, but not the way he expected. Dropping the idea he could figure out what fans wanted, Dickerson instead embraced what he liked, and 2015’s “Yours” was the result.
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
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Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
17aug7:30 pmDANNY SERAPHINE & CTA FEATURING JEFF COFFEY7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Nuclear Bees
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Free Show – All Ages In the beginning, there was Chicago Transit Authority. Danny Seraphine, along with his bandmates set out to change the face of Rock and Roll by
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Free Show – All Ages
In the beginning, there was Chicago Transit Authority. Danny Seraphine, along with his bandmates set out to change the face of Rock and Roll by creating a rock band with horns. During his tenure with Chicago, they scored 20 top 10 hits, (5 reaching #1) and 10 Grammy nominations. He is considered the father of jazz rock drumming. Rolling Stone magazine ranks him as one of the top 100 drummers of all time and Larry Thomas, the former CEO of Guitar Center, calls him one of the top 5 living drummers.
Danny was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2020, he received the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2006, Danny came full circle, forming California Transit Authority (CTA). Guitarist Marc Bonilla and Keyboardist Ed Roth have been with CTA since its inception. In 2022, former Chicago bassist/singer Jeff Coffey joined the lineup, making this iteration the most powerful and dynamic in the band’s history.
CTA’s “Take Me Back to Chicago” tour features a dynamic horn section and the iconic hits of Chicago, including all-out rockers “25 or 6 to 4” and “I’m A Man,” pop hits “Saturday In The Park” and “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” and chart-topping ballads “Hard Habit To Break” and “You’re The Inspiration”. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, evidenced by all the Chicago cover bands out there. Why settle for an imitation when you can have the real deal!
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Blink Marketing & The Lakes News Shopper
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
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Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
23aug7:30 pmCasting Crowns7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Cade Thompson
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Ticketed Event (On Sale NOW) – All Ages Boiling down life’s most challenging moments into digestible proclamations of faith is a cornerstone of the Casting
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Ticketed Event (On Sale NOW) – All Ages
Boiling down life’s most challenging moments into digestible proclamations of faith is a cornerstone of the Casting Crowns brand. Singable truths that point to Jesus is what they’ve always been about and always will be about. But when setting out to write songs for their latest album, Healer, lead singer and primary songwriter Mark Hall was faced with a brand-new challenge. Like the rest of the world, he was stuck at home in the middle of a pandemic. Mark knew, given the circumstances, he needed to write songs for the moment. But the moment loomed so large, so global, it seemed an impossible task. Mark chose to stick to his signature straightforward truth and did the only thing he could do – he wrote from the heart. As he began crafting songs speaking to his own struggles, his own fears and uncertainty, an undeniable theme
emerged.
Healer, while sonically diverse, drives home one main idea – the need for Jesus the Healer to be the center of our lives. The title track, a sweeping. big-voiced plea-turned-prayer, speaks to the things we often try instead of turning to the Healer. “The point of this song is that healing is not going to come from the people we’re voting for or the people we’re following on screens,” Mark says. “It’s only going to come from Jesus. He is the Healer.”
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(Friday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
Location
Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
24aug7:30 pmThe Pork Tornadoes7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Free Show – All Ages The Pork Tornadoes are without a doubt, the most well-known and loved party band of the Midwest. They are known for putting a unique spin on
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Free Show – All Ages
The Pork Tornadoes are without a doubt, the most well-known and loved party band of the Midwest. They are known for putting a unique spin on all of your favorite songs, spanning 5 decades and 4 different genres. Led by singer Mason Greve, who was a finalist on a Not-To-Be-Mentioned National TV singing show in 2014, The Pork Tornadoes will blow you away with an electric mix of covers ranging from Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, all the way to Lizzo, Morgan Wallen, NSYNC and Phil Collins.
Their debut EP peaked on the Apple iTunes Pop charts at #20 and has been streamed over 1.3 million times. They recently achieved viral success with the 5th-most viewed cover of ‘Tennessee Whiskey’ on Youtube and an impromptu performance of ‘In The Air Tonight’ with a drum line that was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine. Performing music that people of all ages and musical backgrounds can enjoy, crowds of fun-loving music fans continue to attend every Pork Tornadoes concert that they can. With over 18 million views on their videos and more than 100,000 social media fans worldwide, make sure your summer plans include seeing this band live!
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Kind World Foundation
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
Location
Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331
31aug7:30 pmArch Allies7:30 pm(GMT-05:00) Preservation Plaza
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Free Show – All Ages Arch Allies has always been THE EPIC classic rock sing-along band showcasing dynamic vocals, huge guitars, dashing keyboards and powerful drums. Now they have taken the
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Free Show – All Ages
Arch Allies has always been THE EPIC classic rock sing-along band showcasing dynamic vocals, huge guitars, dashing keyboards and powerful drums. Now they have taken the show to a NEW LEVEL to create a One-Of-A-Kind Tribute Show selecting only the very TOP HITS of each of the bands and artists they tribute. Songs that everyone knows and loves to sing-along with!
Arch Allies Is EXPLODING across the country by creating a truly unique LIVE music experience: A Male & Female Tribute Band with complete visual and audible tributes that bring the magic of each character to life! They have combined their original show of audience’s favorite male classic rock tributes (Journey, Bon Jovi, Queen, REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Def Leppard) and added a beautiful and masterful female vocalist to perform the top CLASSIC ROCK female artists you love to see like Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Lita Ford, Tina Turner and Ann Wilson!
Plus, this band knows how to HAVE FUN on stage and bring that NON-STOP EXCITEMENT and ENERGY throughout every concert, with their video screens, colorful shots of confetti and Tour Quality sound and lighting. Arch Allies have been accused of “Lip Syncing” due to their ability to so perfectly replicate the bands of the 80’s, which is the best compliment they have received! Fans just have a hard time believing any band can SOUND SO MUCH like the real thing! Arch Allies Is more than a concert, It Is a complete SHOW! From the first note to the final bow at the end of the night, fans are completely engrossed with THE EXPERIENCE THAT IS ARCH ALLIES.
Arch Allies has performed from Florida to Washington State, from Mexico to Canada with FAMILY FRIENDLY performances for everything from event entertainment, fairs and festivals and many casinos around the country. With their own tour-quality stage, video, sound and lighting available, Arch Allies is the EASIEST show to book for your next event. No need to go to multiple sources when we bring it all.
Sponsored By
Sterling
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
Location
Preservation Plaza
37 Lake St, Arnolds Park, IA 51331