Country superstar John Anderson kicks off MPAC Music Season

Country superstar John Anderson kicks off MPAC Music Season

CMA Award- winning artist brings acoustic show to Marion

Marion School District John Anderson will be performing an acoustic evening at the Marion Performing Arts Center, 1 Patriot Drive (Carter Drive entrance) on Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

This performance will be the first of the MPAC music series of the year.

Tickets will go on sale Sept. 1 to the general public. Tickets are $20 for the upper section and $30 for the lower section. Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.marionarpac.or g. There will be a $3 service charge added to your purchase if tickets are bought at the door the night of the production.

Anderson is one of the most instantly recognized voices in country music today and is the current standard bearer for the traditional country sound. In 1977, he began his career with his first hit, “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’ll Be a Diamond Someday)” and went on to have an amazing career that has spanned nearly 40 years with such hits as “Swingin’,” Seminole Wind” and “Money in the Bank.”

His current album, “Goldmine,” includes 12 written or co-written songs on a 13-song album.

Raised in Apopka, Florida, Anderson was exposed to both rock and traditional country growing up and, as incendiary rock outfits like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Lynyrd Skynyrd hone their chops around him, he learned to love and play both types of music. It was the traditional country sound and especially ballads that he loved the most. Anderson moved to Nashville in 1971, working construction by day and playing honky-tonks at night. He signed with Warner Brothers in 1977 and had his first major hit with “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal.” His first No. 1 hit came with “Swingin’” in 1982 which rose to the top of the Billboard

Charts a year later as

No. 1. His latest album “Goldmine” is published on his personal Bayou Boys label. Come see this living legend in an intimate performance

that is sure to be

an event.

This production is sponsored

by Marion A& P, Scarborough Dentistry, First Community Bank of Eastern Arkansas and the Marion School District.

Sponsorship opportunities are available for this and future productions by contacting Marion High School.

For more information about this topic, or if you would like to sponsor this or any other event at MPAC, please contact Starr Hardgrove at 870-739-5152 or e-mail at marionarpac@

msd3.org.

By Mike Douglas