{"id":30844,"date":"2024-11-13T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bonnie-raitt-to-headline-merlefest\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:02:58","slug":"bonnie-raitt-to-headline-merlefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bonnie-raitt-to-headline-merlefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Raitt to headline MerleFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-13\/Getty_BonnieRaitt_111324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mickey Bernal\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bonnie Raitt<\/strong> is set to headline the 2025 edition of MerleFest, which runs April 24-27 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Raitt is set to headline on April 25, with <strong>The Avett Brothers<\/strong> and <strong>The Dead South<\/strong> also booked to headline.\u00a0The lineup also includes\u00a0<strong>The War and Treaty<\/strong>, <strong>Sam Bush<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Asleep at the Wheel<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MerleFest was founded in 1988 by the late Grammy Award-winning musician <strong>Doc Watson<\/strong>, in memory of his son, musician <strong>Eddy Merle Watson<\/strong>, who died in 1985 at the age of 36. The festival serves as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Artists who performed at previous editions of MerleFest include <strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong>, <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, <strong>The Doobie<\/strong> <strong>Brothers<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>, <strong>John Prine <\/strong>and<strong> Dolly Parton<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets and festival information can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/merlefest.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>merlefest.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Next up for Raitt, she\u2019ll play Charleston, West Virginia, on Wednesday. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tour.bonnieraitt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>bonnieraitt.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Bernal\/Getty Images Bonnie Raitt is set to headline the 2025 edition of MerleFest, which runs April 24-27 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.\u00a0 Raitt is set to headline on April 25, with The Avett Brothers and The Dead South also booked to headline.\u00a0The lineup<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bonnie-raitt-to-headline-merlefest\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}