By Gary Meyer, TME

This year’s headliner at Fiesta Days is not to be missed.

The Cary Park Band
Friday, 8:30 p.m.

The Cary Park Band will be a once-in-a-lifetime sorcerer’s brew with some of the most accomplished rock, country and pop musicians you’ll get to see anywhere. This band will probably never play together again after Friday night, August 2, at 8:30 p.m.

Cary Park’s musical roots are deep in his family’s DNA. His father, Bluegrass Hall of Famer and mid-50s Capitol Records rockabilly artist Ray Park was key to launching the California bluegrass music scene. His great-grandfather was Fred Laam, co-founder of The Happy Hayseeds, the West Coast’s earliest professional country act and one of the first to record for the RCA Victrola label.

As an in-demand, celebrated session and touring musician, Park’s credits are too long to fully list here, but include: guitarist for the Eagles’ Randy Meisner; Bruce Hornsby; Kenny Loggins; founding member of the 90s country band Boy Howdy; session player on Deana Carter’s #1 hits “Strawberry Wine” and “We Danced Anyway”; session player for Olivia Newton John and many dozens more credits.

Park’s August 2 band includes: Bass guitarist Wade Biery (Kenny Loggins, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Christopher Cross); keyboardist Skip Edwards (every Dwight Yoakum hit); and drummer Christopher Allis (Michael Nesmith, Denny Laine).

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