SPICEWOOD, Texas — SPICEWOOD, Texas (AP) — Willie Nelson ‘s Fourth of July Picnic is two-stepping out of Texas to the Philadelphia space.
The nation luminary’s principally annual mega-concert, hosted in his native Texas for many of its 50-year-history, can be held for the primary time within the Northeast this July, with a invoice that features Bob Dylan and the duo of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey.
The open air amphitheater is simply throughout the Delaware River from Philadelphia.
The lineup additionally consists of Mavis Staples, Maren Morris and Celisse. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The large patriotic occasion that Nelson first threw in 1973 has made occasional forays exterior the Lone Star State, to Tulsa, Oklahoma; Kansas Metropolis; Atlanta and, most lately, to South Bend, Indiana in 2009. Aside from digital concert events in 2020 and 2021, it has been held in Austin for the previous decade.
At 90, Nelson has not slowed the fixed touring, recording and performing he is saved up for greater than six many years. Final April he was feted for his birthday with two nights of tribute concert events on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and in November he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
