Cross Canadian Ragweed to play Nashville’s Americana festival

Posted by brandy

on August 1, 2009 at 8:19 am

Red dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed is on the lineup to perform at this year’s Americana Music Festival Sept. 16-19 in Nashville, Tenn., according to CMT.com.

The Oklahoma-Texas country-rockers will release a new album, “Happiness and All the Other Things,” Sept. 1 on Universal South Records.

The group is opening select shows this summer for the Rebels of Rock tour with Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ragweed also is planning its annual Red Dirt Roundup for Sept. 6 in Fort Worth, Texas, and it’s yearly Cross Canadian Ragweed Family Jam for Sept. 26 at Oklahoma City’s Zoo Amphitheatre.

The Americana Music Festival also will feature Asleep at the Wheel, the Band of Heathens, Radney Foster, the Greencards, Will Hoge, Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller, Reckless Kelly, Charlie Robison, Marty Stuart, J.D. Souther and more.

-BAM