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October 08, 2008 @ 08:15 PM

2008/The Herald-Dispatch

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Here’s a look at the CMT on Tour concert as well as some other upcoming events at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena:

WHAT: CMT on Tour featuring Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Eric Durrance.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9

WHERE: The Big Sandy Superstore Arena

HOW MUCH: $19.75 and $29.75 (plus service charges)

GET TIX: Call Ticketmaster at 304-523-5757 or get tickets at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena Box Office.

WIN TIX: WTCR-FM will be at the Marshall University Memorial Student Center fountain from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. Eric Durrance will be singing a couple songs and signing autographs, and WTCR will be giving away tickets to the CMT on Tour concert.

DID YOU KNOW? This is the second stop in Huntington for CMT on Tour. Last December, Tri-State music fans saw performances by Jake Owen, Little Big Town and headliner Sugarland.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jason Aldean recently celebrated his fifth-consecutive Top 10 single with “Laughed Until We Cried.” His previous Top 10 singles are “Johnny Cash,” “Amarillo Sky,” “Why” and “Hicktown.” His latest single, “Relentless,” the title track on his new CD, sits at No. 17 on Billboard’s Country Music Singles chart.

Lady Antebellum recently was nominated for two CMA Awards. The band is nominated for “Best Vocal Group” (in a category with The Eagles), and they join CMT on Tour mate, Jason Aldean in the “Best New Artist” category.

Eric Durrance, a Florida native, has a new album, “Angels Fly Away,” that was made with not one, but two producers you may have heard of: Teddy Gentry, Alabama band member who has also produced CDs for such acts as Emerson Drive, as well as Mark Bright, who’s worked with such artists as Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood.

Durrance was also former lead singer for the Christian rock act Big Dismal, which also recorded for Wind-Up Records.

WHAT’S UP NEXT: The Big Sandy Superstore is packed this fall with national acts including Oct. 17 to 19, The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ Boom-A-Ring tour; Kool and the Gang: Nov. 7, Dance Party Extravaganza (A Marshall Artists Series show); Nov. 14, Steve Miller Band; Nov. 20, Staind, Seether and Papa Roach.

ON THE WEB: Go online at www.bigsandyarena.com for more info.