Cross Canadian Ragweed Shatters Attendance Record

DALLAS, TX. (Cross Canadian Ragweed Official Website) - Country rockers Cross Canadian Ragweed drew a record crowd of 23,656 fans to their post-race concert at Dallas' Lone Star Park Friday night, topping the former attendance record set by Willie Nelson in 2002, and also surpassing the venue's sales numbers for the Beach Boys and Texas favorites Pat Green and Charlie Robison.

Traffic stretched for miles outside the venue as loyal fans waited for hours to see Ragweed, a band widely renowned for its electrifying, hard-driving live set. The band's own tour bus hit the unexpected traffic, hours before the show, and had to be extracted from the gridlock and guided to the venue by police escort.

Cross Canadian Ragweed hit the stage at 11:00 PM for a 2 � hour high-octane set that had the capacity crowd on their feet, in a raucous party mode and in need of liquid relief from the Texas heat. The thirsty crowd drained the venue's beer sellers of over 3,000 gallons of beer, forcing the vendors to call it a night only an hour and a half into the show.

Best known for their electrifying live show, in 2004 Ragweed opened shows for ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sammy Hagar, Jonny Lang, and Dierks Bentley, among others. The band consistently sells out shows and massive amounts of merchandise throughout the South, mid-south and Southwestern part of the U.S. Signed to Nashville's Universal South Records (the joint venture between Universal Records and highly respected music executives Tony Brown and Tim DuBois), Ragweed is currently putting the finishing touches on their highly anticipated new CD, scheduled for release later this year.