Anderson County Presents the 26th Annual Celebrate Anderson Weekend
Featuring
Kool & the Gang
with support to be announced
Sunday, August 31
Gates open at 5:30pm
Music starts at 6:30pm
Tickets are free and are required for entry.
LAWN TICKETS:
Bring your blankets and camp chairs to enjoy the concert from the general admission lawn
*Note: to expedite security screenings, we request that you leave your chair bag at home or in your vehicle
STANDING ROOM ONLY TICKETS:
Get close to the action with tickets for the standing room pit in front of the stage.
No chairs or blankets will be allowed entry into the standing room pit.
About Kool & the Gang:
Kool & the Gang, officially launched in 1969. Thanks to iconic songs like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer Madness, and Open Sesame, they’ve earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, 9 Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums. From Nairobi to Newark, Kool & the Gang has performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history and their bulletproof funk and jazzy arrangements have also made them the most sampled R&B band of all time. A reviewer recently called their performance “a 24-karat show” and every year, even after a half-century on the road, yields a non-stop schedule of shows across the globe.
Celebration, which played as the American hostages returned from Iran, remains de rigueur at joyous occasions worldwide. The smashes Get Down On It, Take My Heart, Let’s Go Dancing, Joanna, Tonight, Misled, the #1 R&B, #2 Pop giant Cherish and the #1 R&B anthem Fresh (these last three from the multi-platinum LP Emergency) solidified the group’s international stardom.
Today, the group enjoys global fame and recognition and a following that spans generations due in part to the groups widely sampled catalogue. Kool & the Gang’s drum beats, bass, guitar and signature horn lines lace the tracks of numerous artists including the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and P. Diddy. Kool & the Gang is the most sampled band in hip-hop by far. Their music is also featured on the soundtracks for Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction, Wreck-It Ralph and countless others.
Kool & the Gang’s years of hard work and talent earned them an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June 2018. In 2019, Kool & the Gang celebrated their 50th Anniversary with:
- Induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
- In a touching tribute, a street they grew up on in Jersey City has been renamed in their honor: “Kool & the Gang Way.”
- “Celebration” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- Kool’s bass is displayed at the new Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
- Artifacts from the band’s archive have recently gone on display, next to Count Basie, at the newly opened Grammy Museum Experience in Newark, NJ.
On March 24, 2021, Kool & the Gang’s timeless hit ‘Celebration’ was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, Class of 2021.
