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November 15th, 2006
For immediate release

Oak Ridge Boys bring Christmas show to Potter Center

Jackson Community College will present for one performance only the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Show. Enjoy the four-part harmonies that have made the Oak Ridge Boys a household name for decades! They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the Sheffer Music Hall, Potter Center.

The Oak Ridge Boys have one of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry. They began as a gospel quartet before modernizing their sound and style and crossing over onto the country and pop charts. While different artists coming and going over the years through the 1950s and ‘60s, the Oak Ridge Boys combination of Richard Sterban, Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen and William Lee Golden came together in the early 1970s and performed some of the group’s most popular hits. Their string of hits includes the pop chart-topper Elvira, as well as Bobbie Sue, Dream On, Thank God For Kids, American Made, I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes, Fancy Free, Gonna Take A Lot Of River, and many others. They've scored 12 gold, three platinum, and one double platinum album, plus one double platinum single, and had more than a dozen national Number One singles and over 30 Top Ten hits.

The group’s first personnel change in many years occurred in 1987 when Steve Sanders, who had been playing guitar in the Oaks Band, replaced William Lee as the baritone singer. Late in ‘95, Steve resigned from the Oaks and exactly one minute after midnight on New Year’s Eve, Duane, Joe, and Richard surprised a packed house at the Holiday Star Theatre in Merrillville, Indiana, by welcoming William Lee on stage and back into the group. The hit makers were finally together again!

The Oaks’ high-energy stage show remains the heart and soul of what they do, and they refine it several times a year, striving to keep it fresh well into the future.

Tickets for the Oak Ridge Boys are $37.50 and may be purchased by calling either the Potter Center Ticket Office at 517.796.8600, or online at www.jccmi.edu/events. Limited seating remains.