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• Location:
  Kroger's Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront


• Event Date:
  04/30/2010


• Time:
  8 PM Candy Coburn; 9 PM Rodney Atkins


• Admission:
  2010 Pegasus Pin


• Sponsored By:
  Kentucky Proud


• Media Partner:
  New Country Q 103.1; Country Legends 103.9


• More Information:
  No coolers, can, bottles or pets


• Links:
  Kroger's Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront
  Miller Lite Free Rides for Derby Eve Jam
  
  

The Kentucky Derby Festival is pleased to announce that country music chart-topper Rodney Atkins will headline the Festival's Derby Eve on Friday, April 30, at Kroger's Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront. The concert, which is sponsored by Kentucky Proud, will begin at 8 p.m. with opening act and Kentucky native Candy Coburn. Admission is a 2010 Pegasus Pin.  Contributing sponsors of the event are New Country Q103.1 and Country Legends 103.9.
 
Atkins has recorded five singles that reached No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, including "It's America," which reached the top spot in May, 2009. His other No. 1 hits are: "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"; "Watching You,"; "These Are My People," and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)." Atkins' second album, "If You're Going Through Hell," was released in 2006 and was certified platinum in the United States. Both "If You're Going Through Hell" and "Watching You" were named as the Number One country song of the year by Billboard in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

You can win VIP tickets to the show.  Visit any of the 47 Kentuckiana Kroger stores and purchase any Perdue item (a Kentucky Proud product) from March 28th - April 17th for your chance to win.  Click here for Official Rules.

Now in its fourth year, Kroger's Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront is a 500,000-square-foot entertainment venue featuring food and drink concessions, live concerts and children's playground activities, among other attractions. Fest-a-Ville, which is located in Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville, opens Thursday, April 22, and runs through Friday, April 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily; Saturday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Admission is a 2010 Pegasus Pin.

The Derby Eve Jam was first held in 1971 with Canned Heat as the main act at Louisville Downs. Parts of the show were even televised nationally in 1975 in conjunction with ABC TV's Kentucky Derby coverage.

Other legendary acts have also performed at the Derby Eve Jam over the years, including the Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall and Oates, Foreigner and many others. It dropped off the Derby Festival schedule after the 1997 show because there were fewer major groups touring during the late spring.


Route and Concert Detail:

The Miller Lite Free Rides program will offer free bus and trolley rides on Friday, April 30, beginning at 6 p.m. All regularly scheduled bus routes will provide free rides and a special free trolley service will run every 10 minutes until midnight on the Main-Market route, just south of Waterfront Park.  Route and schedule information is available at www.MillerLiteFreeRides.com, by texting "FREE RIDE" to 30364 or calling 1-800-FREE RIDES (1-800-373-3743).  The bus and trolley service will reach many popular Derby Eve destinations including restaurants, bars, local family events, neighborhood celebrations and the Derby Eve Jam concert sponsored in part by Miller Lite.