Wild and Wonderful MountainFest Motorcycle Rally

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Do you like the feeling you get when you straddle a motorcycle and head off into the horizon? Do you remember how exhilarating it was to cruise down a twisted two lane and not know what lies around the next turn? No matter your answer you need to aim the rubber toward the Wild and Wonderful MountainFest Motorcycle Rally. It's time for you to experience one of America's best-kept motorcycling secrets by visiting the rolling hills, scenic valleys and winding highways of West Virginia. Named "Best Rally of 2006" by Cycle Source magazine, MountainFest has quickly earned a reputation as one of motorcycling's top events. Your host for MountainFest is Morgantown, West Virginia ("3rd Best Small Town in America" - Men's Journal).

Conveniently located at the intersection of two major interstate highways, and surrounded on all sides by roads meant for motorcycles, Morgantown and MountainFest offer bikers the ultimate rally experience - complete with small town charm and hospitality. Check out the highlights below, and click the buttons to the left to learn more. Then, mark your calendar for July 25-28 and join us for four days of riding, music, food and good fun in the Mountain State because it's time for MountainFest!

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Your 3-day (4 days total) admission covers you for all 4 days of the rally and includes all bands, entertainment and attractions! Motorcycle Parking is also included! Kids 12 & under are free and those aged 13-20 will be $15 at the gate. The cost of admission is $35 at the gate and $25 in advance. Limited availability Premium Seating admission will be available for $55 at the gate and $45 in advance. In addition to the cost of admission for all 4 days Premium Seating also includes reserved open bleacher seating in a gated secured area located behind the lawn viewing. This area has private beverage sales and porta johns.

 

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Trace Adkins set to entertain Saturday night at MountainFest.

In the fifteen years since his platinum debut, Trace Adkins has released ten studio albums, three greatest hits packages, thirty chart singles. He has racked up four Grammy nominations, five ACM and CMT awards. Accolades like that – along with sales in the tens of millions – explain the respect Adkins has earned from both Country fans and the industry alike.

But there's more. In recent years, Trace has made his mark as a TV and film actor, a voiceover artist, an author, a social commentator, a participant on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice — and even the inspiration for a series of comic books.

Along the way, Trace has endured his share of well-publicized tribulations and the release of his latest album – Proud To Be Here – would be saddled with the same loss (and luck) that have shadowed Trace all his life. In June of 2011, as the finishing touches were being made to the upcoming album, the Nashville-area home Adkins shared with his wife and three of his five daughters was entirely destroyed by fire. True to form, Trace thought first of his family's safety, then steered the outpouring of fan's support toward the Red Cross…then got back to work.

Adkins' strength, focus and passion for fully-lived life infuse every bit of his new project. Proud To Be Here is the perfect distillation of Trace's art, displaying once again his ability to pour emotional truth into his music, whether it is of the tender or the rowdy variety. The project celebrates committed love in songs like "Million Dollar View," "That's What You Get," and "Always Gonna Be That Way," the joys of the simple life in "Days Like This" and "Poor Folks," the lighter side in "It's A Woman Thang" and "Love Buzz," and life's highest priorities in "It's Who You Know."

"There's so much on this record that's autobiographical," says the man with the soul-stirring baritone. "I draw from the best writers in town, and time after time they capture things I've experienced."

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JOHN KAY & STEPPENWOLF set to entertain Friday night at MountainFest.

In the chaotic world of rock 'n' roll, in which the lifespan of most bands can be measured in terms of a few years or a few months, John Kay and Steppenwolf have emerged as one of rock's most enduring and respected bands, delivering hard-hitting, personally-charged music for more than three decades.

In the late 1960s, Steppenwolf embodied that era's social, political and philosophical restlessness, building an impressive body of edgy, uncompromising rock 'n' roll that retains its emotional resonance more than three decades after the band's formation. Such Steppenwolf standards as "Born to Be Wild," "Magic Carpet Ride," "Rock Me" and "Monster" stand amongst Rock's most indelible anthems.

At last count, the band's worldwide record sales exceed 25 million units. Its songs remain fixtures on classic-rock radio, and have been licensed for use in approximately 50 motion pictures and an even greater number of television programs. And, in addition to being the first band to use the term "heavy metal" in a song (in "Born to Be Wild"), Steppenwolf's punchy style helped to establish the fundamentals of the hard-rock sound that would flourish in the 1970s.

Colt Ford - set to entertain Thursday night at MountainFest.

With his imposing physique, larger than life personality, and outrageous videos, it could
be easy to lose something important in Colt Ford's ample shadow: the music. But make no mistake, Colt Ford is a musician. A natural drummer, he is as comfortable laying down a beat as he is in front of the mic, singing and talking honestly about the country life he and his devoted audiences have in common.

And while some may consider the Academy of Country Music Award nominee's style of rhythmic sing-speak to be rural rap, what Colt does has been a part of country music for ages. It's in Hank Williams Sr.'s "Kaw-Liga," and in his recitations recorded as Luke the Drifter. It's in the story songs of Johnny Cash. The double-talking jive of Jerry Reed. The wild wordplay of Charlie Daniels. And in Jason Aldean's swerving hit single "Dirt Road Anthem"—a song co-written and originally recorded by Colt.

Like his heroes before him, the Athens, Georgia, native is the real deal. "Recitation and talking records were here long before me, and they'll be here long after me," he says. "I'm a country artist and I want people to know how much I genuinely respect this music and my fans."

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