Steely Dan and Steve Winwood have been announced for the first acts for the A Day On The Green 2011/2012 season.

1n 1972, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of college friends who had been playing around in various bands, decided to form their own group. The name they chose was Steely Dan. It was a joke name. It came from the term for a dildo in the William Burroughs book 'Naked Lunch'. Becker and Fagen thought it was funny. Afterall, every other band they had been in only lasted a few months, so it wasn't as if the joke would last forever. Or was it? Steely Dan became one of the most successful acts on the planet, and here they are 35 years later and still called Steely Dan.

Steely Dan's Walter Becker is about to release his second solo album 'Circus Money'.