US stars lined up for Perth’s Southern Fried Festival

Music stars Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steve Earle and Rosanne Cash have been announced as headliners for this year’s Southern Fried Festival in Perth.

Other acts confirmed for Scotland’s seventh annual festival of American roots music in Perth Concert Hall and other city centre venues include John Fullbright, Marc Ford and Cedric Watson.

Buffy Sainte-Marie has entertained and educated audiences with a dose of Native American reality in the first person since the 1960s and her Universal Soldier became the anthem of the peace movement.

She opens this year’s Southern Fried Festival on Friday July 25 in Perth Concert Hall.

She is followed on the Saturday by Grammy award-winner Steve Earle, while Johnny Cash’s daughter Rosanne, a multi-million selling artist in her own right, will close the Concert Hall’s festival on Sunday night, July 27.

With Perth Theatre closed for redevelopment, the Salutation Hotel has stepped in to host Saturday and Sunday afternoon gigs as well as the Late and Southern Fried gigs.

Tickets go on sale on Friday April 18 from Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031, or visit www.horsecross.co.uk.