Hawk Rocks the Park

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Hawk Rocks the Park


Location(s)	Harris Park, London, Ontario
Years active	2004 - present
Date(s)	2007: July 26-28
Genre(s)	Classic Rock
Website	http://www.Rockthepark.ca

Hawk Rocks the Park or Rock the Park is an annual Classic Rock music festival held at Harris Park in London, Ontario, Canada, that is currently in its third year. It's primary sponser is Classic Rock Radio station "103.9 The Hawk".

The purpose of the event is to raise money for "Bethanys Hope Foundation" for MLD Research and to date, $425,000.00^[1] has been raised.

1 Rock the Park I
2 Hawk Rocks the Park... Again
3 Rock the Park III
4 Hawk Rocks the Park: Back 4 More
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Rock the Park I

The first Rock the Park was held July 22-24 in 2004. Its main function was to raise money for Bethanys Hope Foundation and it raised more than $110,000. It featured many legendary musical groups, including:

Note: This is not a complete list.

[edit] Hawk Rocks the Park... Again

ZZ Top plays at Hawk Rocks The Park Again

The second edition of Rock the Park was held over four days during July 21-24, 2005. Due to the success of the first concert, this second one was expanded to four days, during which over 40,000 Rock fans attended. It featured many different groups, including:

Thursday, July 21

Jimmy Bowskillz Band
Trooper
Brian Howe
Randy Bachman
ZZ Top

Friday, July 22

Saturday, July 23

Sunday, July 24

Thundermug (Playing in their last concert for a long time)
David Wilcox
George Thorogood

[edit] Rock the Park III

Held July 20-22, 2006, the groups that took part were:^[2]

Thursday, July 20

Peter Frampton
Eddie Money
Loverboy
Ray Lyell & The Storm

Friday, July 21

Saturday, July 22

There were rumors that the concert will be expanded out to four days (similar to Rock the Park II) but it stayed at three, like the first one. Rock the Park III managed to raise $180,021 for the Bethany's Hope Foundation. For pictures from Rock the Park III, visit the official site gallery here,

[edit] Hawk Rocks the Park: Back 4 More

Rock the Park IV has officially been announced for the weekend of July 26-28, 2007. Half of the performers have been announced and are being revealed at a rate of one per week.^[3]

Thursday, July 26

Friday, July 27

Saturday, July 28

One of the announced bands was supposed to be Boston. The announcement was postponed after the death of Brad Delp. Subsequently, all of Boston's plans for touring, including Hawk Rocks the Park, were cancelled.^[4]