Ardell Larson, CEO of Kick’n Up Kountry has just finished putting together the main acts for the 2010 Kick’n Up Kountry festival to be held in Thief River Falls over Labor Day weekend.

The line up is as follows: Friday, Sept 3rd will begin with the Little Kicker Finals followed by the Adult Karaoke Grand Finals. Then the hot new band called “ Heroes & Thieves” will hit the stage followed by the headliner “ Little Texas” Sat. Sept 4th has one act to be announced but will also include Williams & Ree (the Indian the White Guy) 32 Below, and Bucky Covington will be the headliner for Saturday night.Sun. Sept 5th will begin with Pearl Heart (from the Nashville Star Show) followed by Highway 101 and the Crazy White Boys Tour featuring Mark Wills and Josh Gracin

In addition to the main stage shows there will be lots of changes to this years’ festival as there will be an “Emerging Star Band Shell Bash”. This will be music in the band shell beginning at 10:30 each morning on Saturday and Sunday and this will continue into the afternoon. As in the past years, there will be after parties in the Curling Club after the shows are done each night. The bands for these parties will be announced at a later date. There will also be a Kick Off party on Thursday night, Sept 2nd. Everyone is invited to attend the Kick Off party and the after parties in the Curling Club. You do not need a ticket to attend anything that is going on in the Curling Club.

More plans are in the works to bring more things to do to the festival and the staff is excited about all the great entertainment for the Labor Day weekend so make your plans now to attend. Early bird tickets are available now through May 15th so don’t miss your chance to check out the great value in all the entertainment that is being offered.

More information is available @ www.kicknupkountry.com or by calling the office @ 877-542-5687 between the office hours of 3:00pm-7:00pm daily. You may also leave a message at other times and your calls will be returned as soon as possible.

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My name is Greg Neumann, along with my wife Kellie, we started Neumann Racing in 2000 which is located in Niagara, ND. Our son Michael is also involved with the team as well as Pat McMahon ( known to us as Metalman) and an important member of the team is my spiritual overseer, my dad.

We run the #63 street stock. We are a low budget team with a competitive spirit, but we also want to keep it fun. We also uphold a high standard of sportsmanship. In this sport you have your highs as well as your lows. We enjoy meeting new race teams and provide help when needed. At the end of the night, meeting with the fans make the night complete.

In 2008 we had two home tracks. River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks and Devils Lake Speedway in Doyon .. For the 2010 we will be running River Cities on Friday and with the closing of Devils Lake we will be running Jamestown or Greenbush on Saturday. Also Bemidji Speedway as a limited schedule for streets on Sunday.

With the 2010 season in full swing,  Neumann Racing is proud to announce that we have a theme for the season:  “RACE FOR LIFE IN 2010″. The reason for this theme is for the fight against cancer and other life threatening illnesses. In 2002 my wife lost her dad to cancer, in 2006 we lost a very important member of our team to cancer, my dad.

Over the past 7 years we have lost family members as well as friends to cancer, but we’ve also had family as well as friends beat their fight against cancer. For the 2010 season we have brought on board Dave and Diane Wells, members of  the Hopes, Dreams and Smiles Foundation. This is a non-profit organization located in Northwestern Minnesota. This foundation is geared towards kids with life threatening illnesses.

For the 2010 season we will be racing for the foundation. With the help of our corporate sponsors and private sponsors, we hope to achieve a goal. Through t-shirt sales all proceeds will go to the foundation. As the driver of the #63 I have decided this isn’t enough, so for every lap I turn in the 2010 season I will be donating $1.00 per lap.

Neumann Racing is looking for elite sponsors to come on board with us. As far as we know there is no other race team in the state doing this. This will be a great way to advertise showing that you have joined in the fight. As said before, the Hopes, Dreams and Smiles Foundation is geared towards kids. Wouldn’t it be great as a team to help give them HOPE, fulfill a kid’s DREAM and especially see them SMILE.

Become a member with Neumann Racing to help us fill our dream so we can make some dreams come true and see them smile.

Thank you,

Neumann Racing
Greg, Michael & Kellie Neumann