Running Aces Casino, Hotel & Racetrack and B & F Fastener Supply are proud to present the Freedom Fest Concert to benefit the Invisible Wounds Project. This year's headliners are Eli Young Band, and Easton Corbin, along with special guests The Farmer's Daughters, and Rafe Carlson.
ALL proceeds from this event go to the Invisible Wounds Project, a Forest Lake, MN based nonprofit whose mission is to positively impact and enhance the lives of those who serve(d). They operate a Support Center in Forest Lake that provides therapeutic activities, as well as access to therapy services, social connections, and other resources to our military, first responders, frontline medical staff, corrections, dispatch and their families related to mental health, PTSD, and suicide issues. Learn more at iwproject.org.
Freedom Fest Concert 9/28/24
Doors 4pm
Rafe Carlson set time 415 pm
The Farmer's Daughters set time 5 pm
Easton Corbin set time 7pm
Eli Young Band set time 9 pm
Ticket Description:
General Admission: Seating is first come, first served. GA ticket holders can bring their own lawn chairs/blankets to be used in the grass area only. Benches are available, but again on first come first served basis.
Pit Pass: Be closest to the action with a Pit Pass! Standing room only in the "Pit Area" in front of the stage. This ticket price includes your GA.
Sponsor VIP: Get the best views, along with food, drink, and connect with other VIP supporters of the Invisible Wounds Project. Email Russ@iwproject.org for sponsorship opportunities.
THIS EVENT IS HELD RAIN OR SHINE - NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN
Come early to be a part of the Officer Shawn Silvera Memorial 5K, Cruise For Heroes, and more from 8 to noon. There will be kids activities, Touch-A-Truck, pancake breakfast fundraiser, food trucks, vendors, and more in the lot!
About Eli Young Band
Since the band’s formation as college classmates 20 years ago, the Associated Press has celebrated EYB as “a smart, relevant antidote” to overdone clichés in Country music. The band has amassed 14 Billboard charting singles, including four No. 1 hits via 4x Platinum “Crazy Girl” and 3x Platinum “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” plus 2x Platinum “Love Ain’t” and Platinum “Drunk Last Night,” while also earning an ACM Award for Song of the Year as well as multiple GRAMMY, CMA, CMT, ACA and Teen Choice Award nominations. The musical band of brothers – Mike Eli, James Young, Jon Jones and Chris Thompson – play their own instruments, write their own songs and cling fast to their Texas roots. While selling out venues from coast-to-coast as strong headliners, EYB has also shared the stage with Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Chris Young, Darius Rucker and Dave Matthews Band. For more information on new music and upcoming tour dates, visit www.eliyoungband.com and follow on social media @EliYoungBand.
About Easton Corbin
Easton Corbin has been gracing stages with his memorable baritone and unique blend of traditional and modern country music for more than a decade. The Florida native, who boasts two No. 1 singles with “A Little More Country Than That” and “Roll With It,” embarks on a new musical chapter with his recent signing to Stone Country Records. Corbin teams with industry veterans Benny Brown, Paul Brown and Jason Sellers as the label’s flagship artist.
Corbin says he and Music Row mainstay Benny Brown initially met and bonded over their mutual love of traditional country music. No stranger to the writing room himself, Corbin has penned songs with Sellers ahead of signing with the independent label. The singer, who has spent several years as an independent artist following nearly a decade with Mercury Nashville, says he’s in a great position being Stone Country’s flagship artist.
“They let me do what I want to do and let me be me, which is very important,” the singer says.
Corbin’s neotraditional sound shined on his debut label single “I Can’t Decide,” co-written by Corbin with producer Wade Kirby and esteemed writers Ashley Gorley and Rhett Akins. The soaring pedal steel combined with a driving beat and plucked guitar rhythms allows Corbin’s warm baritone to further accentuate the up-tempo song.
The Florida native continues to write with longtime producer Carson Chamberlain as well as Kirby, Shane Minor, Adam Craig and Wyatt McCubbin, who he penned the romantic wedding ode and current radio single “Marry That Girl” with. Corbin says the past three years have allowed him to focus more seriously on writing music and finding the message he wants to convey to listeners on his forthcoming project.
“It’s about being authentic and that’s what I always focus on when I write or record,” he says. “I keep one foot in traditional and one foot in the modern and marry those two. That’s really been my motto through the years.”
And he’s had a successful time doing so. Throughout his career, Corbin has amassed seven top 10 singles and three American Country Awards. Named Billboard’s 2010 Top New Country Artist, Corbin has never shied away from his traditional roots with Your Big Sky complimenting his “unapologetic and unwavering traditional country sound.” His self-titled debut album was named Country Breakthrough Album of the Year by iTunes Rewind Best of 2010 while American Songwriter has complimented the singer’s “warm, smooth-as-gravy-southern drawl.”
Along the way, Corbin hasn’t forgotten his roots. The young boy who grew up listening to Merle Haggard and George Jones with his grandparents remembers where he came from.
“I do love traditional country music,” he says. “That sound is what drew me to country music as a genre. One of my very first records was a Merle Haggard album when I was a kid. The way he delivered a song, the emotion in his songwriting and in his voice, he was just the whole package.”
Corbin most recently released his album Let’s Do Country Right - his first in eight years. The 14-song feat is a collection of new, yet-to-be-heard tunes, as well as previously released songs, like Corbin’s current radio single and streaming hit “Marry That Girl.” Since releasing with DSPs, the romantic ode has organically amassed an impressive 55 million+ streams collectively, and was featured on hit FOX reboot Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer.
On radio impact, it was the No. 2 most added song by country stations, and was featured in a live performance by top daytime talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show, as well as fan-favorite syndicated iHeart radio show The Bobby Bones Show. Laced with Corbin’s warmly familiar baritone vocals, and layered with the true-to-his-roots production fans and radio love, the record offers something for everyone.
“The record is a good mixture of that up-tempo and midtempo songs along with a few ballads here and there,” he says of Let’s Do Country Right.
