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Show Masters Festival coming to VMH The "Masters Festival of Music" is returning to Salt Lake City. The festival which played to critical acclaim from reviewers and patrons alike, is scheduled from the Valley Music Mu-sic Hall Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 16-17-18-19. All performances begin be-gin at 8:30 p.m. The same crowd-pleasing co-headliners co-headliners of guitarist Chet Atkins, At-kins, sax-specialist Boots Randolph, Ran-dolph, pianist Floyd Cramer and singer-guitarist Jerry Reed will be on hand but with new new material and in new productions. pro-ductions. Backing up the 'power-houses' of the 2 ',6 -hour show will be three musical groups, exponents ex-ponents of the famed Nashville Nash-ville sound: The Nashville all-star all-star band. the Music City Sound of Strings, and The Nashville Brass Quartet. Boots Randolph, the sax specialist, spe-cialist, who also emcees the 2Vi!-hour show, will be spotlighted spot-lighted doing "Charlie Brown," "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling," Feel-ing," "Jackson," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Big Daddy's Alabamy Bound," "Unchained Melody," and of course his musical mu-sical signature, "Yakety-Sax," and others. Chet Atkins, award-winning guitarist who is equally at home soloing with a symphony as he is with a popular music group, is spotlighted in virtually virtual-ly all of the second half of the show. Pianist Floyd Cramer, whose "bent-note" style has been one of the major influences on popular pop-ular music piano will be spotlighted. spot-lighted. Also included will be young writer-singer-guitarist Jerry Reed, who the master picker, Chet Atkins, describes as "one of the finest in his field young or old. Tickets are now on sale at Valley Music Hall Box Office in North Salt Lake and may be charged at all Sears, Castel-ton, Castel-ton, ZCMI, K.O.B. and the Merc Department Stores. |