‘’ FINALIST AYLA BROWN, THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND THE 76ERS PARTNER ON NATIONAL ANTHEM THIS SEASON

HOME GAMES TO FEATURE LIVE ANTHEM, PERFORMANCE BY ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ SEASON FIVE FINALIST BROWN

ACCOMPANIED BY A VIDEO RECORDING BY THE WORLD-RENOWNED PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA

RECORDED SPECIFICALLY FOR SIXERS GAMES

PHILADELPHIA, PA – DECEMBER 20, 2011 - The Chief Executive Officer and co-Owner Adam Aron announced today that "American Idol" Season Five finalist Ayla Brown and the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will partner to provide fans with an exceptional National Anthem performance at Sixers home games this season. Brown will accompany live a video of The Philadelphia Orchestra performing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

"It will be a unique thrill for Sixers fans to hear the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra play the National Anthem, accompanied live by Ayla Brown,” Aron said. “With a stirring arrangement recorded specifically for the Sixers, this combination is likely to give you goose bumps. What a way to start games at the Wells Fargo Center.”

The announcement of Brown as the team's new anthem singer and the partnership with The Philadelphia Orchestra comes at a time when the Sixers new ownership group has pledged to make wide-ranging improvements to the game experience at the Wells Fargo Center for the upcoming 2011-12 NBA season.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON AYLA BROWN: www.aylabrown.com National recording artist, Ayla Brown, lives in Nashville, and was a finalist in American Idol's fifth season (2005). Since her Idol days, Brown has sung "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 33 rd Annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular before nearly one million people and at multiple professional and college games throughout the country. She has performed with the Grammy Award-winning Nashville Symphony Orchestra at the Let Freedom Sing concert. She has also released three solo albums. Of particular note to 76ers fans, Ayla was a starting NCAA Division I basketball player during her collegiate days.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: www.philorch.org The Philadelphia Orchestra is among the world's leading orchestras, touching more than one million music lovers worldwide through concerts, presentations and recordings. Renowned for its artistic excellence under eight extraordinary conductors since its founding in 1900, the Orchestra has excited audiences with thousands of concerts in Philadelphia and around the world.

ABOUT THE PHILADELPHIA 76ERS: The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the elite franchises in the National Basketball Association and have achieved the third most wins in league history, as well as the third most playoff appearances of any team in the NBA along with three World Championships. Some of the greatest players ever to play the game have appeared in a 76ers uniform. The Philadelphia 76ers are owned by an investor syndicate led by prominent financier Joshua Harris and play home games in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center.

For more information, please contact Sixers Public Relations at 215-339-7666.

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