Kevin Costner to return to Durham for City's Fourth of July celebration

The press release came across the wire today and told the story: Kevin Costner's coming back to the Bull City, in this 20th-anniversary year for "Bull Durham."

He won't be in D-Bulls blue, orange and white this time, though. And he won't be back at the old Durham Athletic Park, which presumably will have the dirt moving and the grass torn up by then as part of its renovation project.

Instead, he'll be coming to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park to perform a concert with his band, Modern West, with whom the actor performed (in an earlier incarnation of the group) before his movie career took off. Costner and his backing band will appear at the DBAP on Friday, July 4, for the concert, which will be followed by the City of Durham's annual fireworks extravaganza.

Read more over at the Durham Bulls' web site, or sign up for access to web pre-sales for the event on June 4 (tickets otherwise go on sale at 9 am Thursday June 5 via the Durham Bulls box office.)