{"id":1310511,"date":"2024-04-02T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1310511"},"modified":"2024-04-04T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:27:07","slug":"country-singer-mark-wills-will-headline-great-texas-balloon-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1310511","title":{"rendered":"Country singer Mark Wills will headline Great Texas Balloon Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS-225x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1310512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS-225x177.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS-444x350.jpg 444w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Officials for  the annual 2024 Great Texas Balloon Race in Longview have announced the entertainment card for the event. According to our news partner KETK, this years headliner is country singer Mark Wills. The 50-year-old Georgia native had a number six hit nationally in 1996 with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJacob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ladder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Wills followed that up with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI Do (Cherish You)\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which was number two on the country charts. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday Night June 14, Jenn Ford and the Wide Eyed Devils along with The Hollow Decks will be taking the stage. On Saturday night, Texas native and country singer Danielle Bradberry, who also won Season 4 of NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Voice will open the night. With Mark Wills headlining the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Texas Balloon Race  begins June 12 with a competition flight over Longview. To buy tickets and to get more information on the Great Texas Balloon Race, click <a href=\"https:\/\/gtbr.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Officials for the annual 2024 Great Texas Balloon Race in Longview have announced the entertainment card for the event. According to our news partner KETK, this years headliner is country singer Mark Wills. The 50-year-old Georgia native had a number six hit nationally in 1996 with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJacob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ladder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Wills followed that up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1310511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Country singer Mark Wills will headline Great Texas Balloon Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1310517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS-225x177.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Country singer Mark Wills will headline Great Texas Balloon Race","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:38:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/MARK-WILLS-225x177.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Country singer Mark Wills will headline Great Texas Balloon Race","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310516,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310511\/revisions\/1310516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}