Rockin’ the Rivers brings the hits to 3-day August extravaganza
Rockin’ the Rivers, Montana’s original three-day Rockfest, is shaking things up in their 19th year. Classically a Friday to Sunday event, the festival starts on Thursday this year and ends with a blow out party on Saturday night. Although the days have shifted, the music and the party is just as intense and just a loud as the previous (almost) two decades.
The 2019 lineup features artists with sixty-four top 40 hits with thirty of them charting Billboard’s top 10. Some artists will be recognizable to the long time Rockin’ the Rivers fans and others like Zakk Wylde’s hard hitting, guitar-shredding band Zakk Sabbath will be hitting the Rockin’ stage for the first time.
Thursday night kicks back to the 80s and 90s, featuring hits from the big hair power ballad bands of Cheap Trick and Warrant. Rockin’ fans will be taken back in time with the songs, “The Flame,” “Can’t Stop Falling Into Love,” “Heaven” and the crowd favorite, “Cherry Pie.” Moving through the decades, Saliva hit the scene in early 2000s with the in your face rock hit, “Your Disease” followed with hit, “Always.”
Friday kicks up the intensity with Viking Thunder God, Zakk Wylde. Tapped at the age of 19 to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band as lead guitarist, Zakk Wylde’s Zakk Sabbath will be performing hits from Black Sabbath’s first six albums, including songs from the title album Black Sabbath, Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Heavy Metal hitter, Dokken keeps the shred coming with hits “Alone Again” and “In My Dreams.”
The festival finishes strong on Saturday with some of the lineup’s biggest hit makers. Lou Gramm, original voice of Foreigner and Asia featuring John Payne, headlines and will be playing a set packed with all of Foreigner and Asia’s top hits including power ballad, “I Want to Know What Love Is” and Asia hit, “Heat of the Moment.” The Guess Who and Hinder round out the hit-churning lineup with over twenty-six top 40 hits between them featuring “American Woman,” “No Time,” “Lips of an Angel,” “All American Nightmare” and many more.
With almost 30 bands on two stages, there’s music for everyone at this Montana-owned festival. For tickets and additional information, visit www.rockintherivers.com or call (406) 285-0099. •
