Darius Rucker Coming to Pensacola Bay Center, tickets go on sale March 1

Rucker will play May 10. He will be joined by Jana Kramer and Justin Moore.

Darius Rucker’s just released his latest album “True Believers” (Fourth Studio Album, Third Country Album, released 1/22/2013) which includes two hit singles “True Believers” and “Wagon Wheel”.

Darius first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band’s songs with the other three members.

He released a solo R&B album, Back to Then, in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but did not chart any singles from it. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville as a country music artist, releasing the album Learn to Live that year. Its first single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”, made him the first African American to chart a number one on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983. It was followed by two more number-one singles, “It Won’t Be Like This for Long” and “Alright” and the number three “History in the Making”. In 2009, he became the first African American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and only the second African American to win any award from the association. A second Capitol album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the number-one singles “Come Back Song” and “This”.

ABOUT JANA KRAMER
If you ask Jana Kramer to describe her life in this very moment she would say, “Dreams really do come true.” The singer/songwriter/actress has already had success with three songs that were featured on The CW’s “One Tree Hill,” where she plays the firecracker actress, Alex Dupre. Jana will debut a fourth song on “One Tree Hill” this upcoming season that will air mid-January.

Jana is no stranger to the bright lights with her impressive string of movie and television roles, but she credits her recent break into the music industry as her most important accomplishment to date.
“I love acting, but my heart and soul is in singing. I’ve been terrified to pursue this dream because it’s so personal to me. If someone tells me they don’t like my voice, it’s a lot harder of a hit to take,” said Jana. “This is what I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve wanted to do music my entire life.

Growing up in Michigan, Jana is no stranger to the rich history of country music, crediting one of her favorite memories to baking cookies with her grandmother while listening to Patsy Cline. These little moments are one of the many reasons why Jana hopes to share her music with others. And she’s doing just that as the singer-songwriter is lighting up country music with her emotionally moving songs and sweet, country vocals, selling over 150,000 digital singles in the first six months. All eyes are on Jana as she boldly graces country music with a fresh, new sound and powerful new music.

“Country music is in my blood. I love country music because it tells a story and I have a lot of stories to tell.”

ABOUT JUSTIN MOORE
He signed on for the 2011 summer “Flatts Fest Tour” with Rascal Flatts. He finished 2011 with Miranda Lambert and then with Darius Rucker. He started January 2012 touring with Blake Shelton and ended the year on the Eric Church “Blood, Sweat and Beers” tour, his headlining shows have sold out in clubs across the country and his loyal fan base continues to grow at a rapid pace. His music resonates strongly with the blue collar, hard working Americans who break their backs just to earn a buck and never get ahead but wouldn’t have it any other way, to paraphrase the lyric from his #1 hit, “Small Town USA”.

Justin’s sophomore album “Outlaws Like Me” debuted at number one upon it’s release nationwide on June 21, 2011 and quickly landed him his second Number 1 along with a top 15 and then his first ever love song, “Til My Last Day” became his third number one in December, 2012.

2012 finished on a high note with both of his albums reaching gold status within a month of each other.

Justin’s fans have found his new album filled with songs that stay true his roots, some hard rocking kick ass cuts and some that show a slightly softer side, a sign of kind of a musical maturity, so to speak, brought on no doubt by the three greatest joys in his life, his daughter Ella, born in February 2009, his daughter Kennedy born in November 2011, and his beautiful wife Kate.

Justin is currently working on his third studio album and also preparing for his first headlining tour starting first quarter of 2013. Dates TBA.

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WHAT: Darius Rucker with Jana Kramer and Justin Moore

WHERE: Pensacola Bay Center

WHEN: 7 p.m. May 10

ONSALE: Friday, March 1 at 10am

PRICES :: TBD

TICKETS: Ticketmaster.com, 800-745-3000, Pensacola Bay Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets

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