Aretha Franklin & Foster the People to Headline Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City's Saturday in the Park Festival

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City's Saturday in the Park Festival is pleased to announce the headliners for the 2015 festival, the festivals 25 th Anniversary. Aretha Franklin and Foster The People will close this year's 25 th installment of the festival, event co-founder Dave Bernstein announced Thursday. Aretha Franklin will be welcomed by Great Southern Bank. "This year's performers are tremendous, and collectively cover the wide range of SITP fans musical interests. Aretha Franklin and Foster the People are both well known for incredible recorded music and awesome live shows. This year, like each of the past 25, will be all about top notch live free music."

This year's Saturday in the Park Festival will be held at Grandview Park in Sioux City, IA, on Saturday, July 4th, from 12 noon to 10:30pm. The free music festival will feature Aretha Franklin and Foster The People. Gogol Bordello and North Mississippi Allstars will also perform along with three other bands to be announced at a later date.

This free music festival draws tens of thousands of people each year. The Saturday in the Park Festival was founded in 1991 by Dave Bernstein and Adam Feiges. In addition to a line-up of world class artists, the 25 th Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Saturday in the Park Festival will also feature the return of Arts Alley, the KCAU Kids Zone, and some of the best festival food anywhere, and two beer gardens. The festival wraps up with a fireworks finale that continues to impress year after year.

For the latest on the 25 th annual Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Saturday in the Park Festival log on to www.saturdayinthepark.com, follow us on Twitter: @SITPFest, like us on Facebook, or call the festival office at (712) 277-2575. The website has application forms for food and arts alley vendors as well as information on festival sponsorship packages.