November 8, 2007
For immediate release
Trisha Yearwood tickets go on sale
Friday, Nov. 16 for March show
Country superstar Trisha Yearwood is coming to the Jackson Community College
Potter Center on March 16, 2008, and fans can get their tickets beginning at 9
a.m. Friday, Nov. 16.
Yearwood’s new CD, “Heaven, Heartache & The Power of Love,” will hit stores
Tuesday, Nov. 13. The title track single from that CD is currently on the
Billboard charts, along with her “Greatest Hits” album.
Yearwood has been a favorite on the country charts since her self-titled debut
album was released in 1991. With hits like “She’s In Love With the Boy,” “How
Do I Live,” and “I Would’ve Loved You Anyway,” Yearwood has one of the most
majestic voices in Nashville. Listeners responded to her lustrous voice from
the moment they first heard it 14 years ago. The native of Monticello, Georgia
served her apprenticeship in Nashville as a student at Belmont University, a
receptionist at MTM Records and as a “demo” singer for dozens of aspiring
songwriters. Following her signing by MCA, Trisha burst on the radio airwaves
with the frisky rocker “She’s In Love With the Boy” in the spring of 1991. The
single roared to No. 1, beginning a string of what would become nine No. 1 hits,
such as “That’s What I Like About You,” “The Woman Before Me,” “XXX’s and OOO’s,”
“Thinkin’ About You” and “A Perfect Love.”
Trisha’s 13 albums to date include four Gold Record winners (The Sweetest Gift,
Everybody Knows, Real Live Woman, Inside Out), four Platinum awardees (Hearts In
Armor, The Song Remembers When, Thinkin’ About You, Where Your Road Leads), a
Double Platinum seller (Trisha Yearwood) and a Quadruple Platinum blockbuster
(Songbook (A Collection Of Hits)). She won back-to-back CMA awards as country’s
Female Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and 1998. She has been honored with three
Grammy Awards and dozens of other trophies. In 1999 Trisha Yearwood was inducted
into the cast of the Grand Ole Opry.
In 2001 she was chosen to sing in Washington, D.C. by the National Endowment for
the Arts at its “Songs of the Century” celebration, was honored by her hometown
with the naming of “Trisha Yearwood Parkway” and was called to reprise her
recurring role on the CBS-TV series “JAG.” Yearwood has contributed to
strong-selling soundtracks of such films as “Hope Floats,” “Stuart Little,”
“Thing Called Love” and “Honeymoon in Vegas,” as well as to a number of charity
CDs. Known as a willing and genial collaborator, she has provided harmony vocals
to dozens of other artists’ recordings, including sessions for Reba McEntire,
Rodney Crowell, Brooks & Dunn, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Vince
Gill, Pam Tillis and Patty Loveless. And a couple duets have led to Grammy
awards - her pairing with Aaron Neville for “I Fall To Pieces” and with Garth
Brooks for “In Another’s Eyes.” Outside of the country genre and the U.S.,
Yearwood has performed with Pavarotti for his War Children of Liberia benefit
concert in Italy. She has also sung with Don Henley.
“Singing gives me such joy,” Yearwood says. “And it seems to give other people
joy. It’s what I believe I am supposed to do."
Yearwood
will perform at The Potter
Center at 7 p.m. March 16, 2008. This concert is sponsored by A.G. Edwards &
Sons’, member SIPC. Tickets for Trisha Yearwood are
$58, $55 and $50 and may be purchased by calling the Potter Center Box Office at
517.796.8600, or online at
www.jccmi.edu,
under “Visitors” and “Events.”
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