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Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo to headline Roundup MusicFest at Prince's Island Park on July 9

Article content Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will be headlining the Roundup MusicFest in its 25th year at Prince's Island Park on July 9 during the Calgary Stampede. Article content The married duo, who have been musical partners since Benatar's hit-making days in the late 1970s and '80s, will be headlining this year's festival opposite Tom Cochrane, and Canadian rockers J.D. Fortune, who was frontman for Australia's INXS for a few years, and JJ Wilde, who beat Neil Young, Sam Roberts and Silverstein to win the Rock Album of the Year Juno in 2021. It was the first time a woman won the award since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill took the prize 25 years earlier. Article content Article content Benatar and Giraldo have been married since 1982 but were music partners before that. Benatar has won four Grammy Awards and had 19 Top 40 hits, including Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Heartbreaker, Fire and Ice, Treat Me Right and Hell Is for Children. The two were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Article content Article content