Cheap Trick To Headline 2010 Benefit Concert For The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

New York (Top40 Charts/ Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame) - Cheap Trick, whose legendary style of power pop, rock and metal has helped it to sell more than 20 million records worldwide and produced more than 40 gold and platinum recording awards in a career that has spanned 35 years, will headline the 2010 Benefit Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum on Saturday, May 1, at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. Also performing will be the Georgia Satellites and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, who along with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, rose to immense popularity in the 1970s and helped usher in the era of hard edged southern rock that continues to influence Kid Rock and many other modern-day artists.

Joining Cheap Trick, the Georgia Satellites and the Atlanta Rhythm Section on the main bill will be Yes drummer Alan White's White Sox All-Star Band, featuring Spike Edney and Jamie Moses of Queen, former Journey and current Trans-Siberian Orchestra vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, electric rock violinist extraordinaire Geoffrey Castle, progressive rock bass guitarist Bernt Bodal and Jimi Hendrix Revisited star Randy Hansen.

Tickets for the May 1 show go on sale Friday, January 15 at noon at all Ticketmaster outlets and the Booth Amphitheatre box office.

Proceeds from the show will help support the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's preservation and presentation of the history of the music that changed the world. Each year the nonprofit Museum hosts 400,000+ visitors onsite in Cleveland and delivers award winning education programs to over 50,000 school children from around the nation.

To help celebrate Rock Hall weekend in the Triangle region, Rock Hall National Trustee and Benefit Concert Chairman Rick French also announced that two very special all-star bands will perform a concert on Friday, April 30 in downtown Raleigh to honor three past Rock Hall Inductees: Prince, The Band and Bob Dylan, and that Cheap Trick and the White-Sox All-Star Band will honor two more Rock Hall Inductees during their performances on May 1: The Beatles and Queen. Details on the April 30 show will be released later this month.

The 2010 Benefit Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum is presented by the Town of Cary and sponsored by SunTrust Bank, Moe's Southwest Grill, Johnson Brothers Carolina Distributors, Harris Wholesale, Inc., ONEHOPE Wine, Out The Box Records, Paragon Commercial Bank, and French/West/Vaughan. Official media partners include WTVD-11, Capital Broadcasting, Curtis Media, The Raleigh Downtowner, Skirt Magazine, Social Magazine, and Wake Living.