Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to kick up some dust at Coralville 4thFEST

CORALVILLE -- The Grammy Award-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will headline the Coralville 4thFEST's free concert  at 8 p.m. July 3 in S.T. Morrison Park.

With a career that spans five decades, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is known as a pioneer of country rock whose influence is still being felt today.

The band's “Will the Circle be Unbroken” album became a multi-platinum success. Thirty years later, it was one of 50 recordings to be preserved by the Library of Congress. The ensuing “Circle II” album won three Grammy Awards and the Country Music Association Album of the Year. “Circle III” garnered the International Bluegrass Music Association Recorded Event of the Year and a 2005 Grammy for Country Instrumental Performance.

Hits including “Dance Little Jean,” “Workin' Man,” “Long Hard Road,” “Baby's Got a Hold on Me” and “Fishin' in the Dark” put the band at the top of the country charts for over a decade.

The free concert is one of many long-standing Coralville Independence Day traditions, which also include a July 4

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parade and fireworks.  Watch

www.coralville.org for more details.