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Rock on the Range is returning.

The second-annual edition of the modern-rock festival will take place Aug. 7 at Canad Inns Stadium with reunited alt-rock group Stone Temple Pilots serving as the headliners.

The group kicked off their current tour Friday with a show at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. They will release a new self-titled album on May 25.

Other confirmed acts include Godsmack, Buckcherry, Clutch, Three Days Grace, the Trews, Finger 11, Crash Karma, Rev Theory, Danko Jones, Arkells and Domenica. Tickets for the day-long festival go on sale March 27 for $39.50, $69.50 and $79.50 at Ticketmaster.

The festival took place in June last year, attracting 12,000 paid fans who toughed it out through a rainy, cold day to see bands such as Billy Talent, Rancid, Rise Against and Shinedown. The unpredictable weather is one of the reasons organizers decided to move the event to August this year.

“We might lose some people to the beaches and such, but the payoff is better weather. The goal of this style of show is to build it, grow it and allow it to become an annual target for fans and a rite of passage for new fans,” said Kevin Donnelly, MTS Centre general manager and senior vice-president.

True North Sports & Entertainment, which runs the MTS Centre, is producing the show with the Winnipeg Football Club and Right Arm Entertainment. Right Arm runs the original Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio.

The Winnipeg event is smaller than the two-day Columbus show, but Donnelly hopes it will grow to become a destination for music fans within a one-day drive. There are plans in the works to have it run for the next several years.

“In a perfect world we’ll see this grow in attendance and become a multi-day event, he says.

“These things are great summer gathering places.”

rob.williams@freepress.mb.ca

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