“STAR 94’S Jingle Jam 2007”
(Atlanta – October 12, 2007) As Atlanta's #1Top 40 radio station, Star 94 throws the BIGGEST holiday concert of the year! Star 94’s Jingle Jam brings the best in Top 40 music together all in one show. In years past, Star 94’s Jingle Jam has hosted artists such as Maroon 5, Duran Duran, James Blunt, Jessica Simpson, The Fray, KT Tunstall, Hinder, The Goo Goo Dolls, and more. In 2007, Star 94 is raising the bar by bringing you Avril Lavigne, Jonas Brothers, Colbie Caillat, and Elliott Yamin. Now in its 7th year, Star 94’s Jingle Jam, has proven to be one of the city’s most anticipated concerts. Each year the show has sold out, and in 2006 did so in just a matter of days.
DETAILS AT A GLANCE:
When: Monday December 10, 2007 Where: Arena @ Gwinnett Center http://www.gwinnettcenter.com/ 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097
Band line-up: (set times are subject to change) Elliott Yamin 7:00p - 7:25p Colbie Caillat 7:45p - 8:15p Jonas Brothers 8:35p - 9:20p Avril Lavigne 9:50p - 10:50p
Tickets are $57.00, $37.00, & $27.00. All tickets are for reserved seating and all ages are welcome. Doors open at 6p with the first act going on stage at 7p.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, October 20, 2007 @ 10AM at www.star94.com, the Arena @ Gwinnett Box Office, or through Ticketmaster.
Star 94’s Jingle Jam is brought to you in part by Bud Light, Randstad, Skirt Magazine, Schick Razors, & Ageless Remedies.
For more information and/or media inquires, contact Mrs. Shawnessy Renegar, Promotions Director, Star 94 at (404) 238-9476 or [email protected]. Additional event details can be found at www.Star94.com. About Star 94 Star 94 (WSTR, 94.1 FM) is Atlanta's premiere top 40- radio station, broadcasting from its Buckhead studios since 1989. "Atlanta's #1 Hit Music Station" features personalities Tripp West in midday’s; Cindy Simmons and Ray Mariner in afternoons and Nudge at night. Star 94 is part of Lincoln Financial Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lincoln Financial Group. The chain also operates stations in Charlotte, Denver, Miami and San Diego.
About Avril Lavigne “Avril Lavigne is a girl who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo found that her favorite songs to play were the faster, more up-tempo songs—so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of high-spirited, full-throttle energy that she loved to unleash on-stage… The album features the production skills of Butch Walker (who has also produced The Donnas, American Hi-Fi, and Avril’s second album, Under My Skin), Dr. Luke (Pink, Lady Sovereign), Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Goo Goo Dolls), and her husband Deryck Whibley (from Sum 41)… Four of the songs on The Best Damn Thing—“Innocence,” “Hot, “One of Those Girls,” and “Contagious”—were co-written with Avril’s former bandmate Evan Taubenfeld. “Evan is one of my best friends in the world,” she says, affectionately. “He’s been with me since day one”…Of course, all of the spiky, buoyant energy that drives the album will come to life in the live show that Avril is planning for her tour later this year—she has assembled a new band, and is even bringing along two dancers (“I’m doing choreographed dancing for the first time ever,” she grins. “It’s going to be such a blast”)…”
About Jonas Brothers “Ask the Jonas Brothers who they’re hoping to turn into fans with their new self-titled CD and they won’t say “everybody.” But that’s precisely what they’ll mean. “We’re aiming for people our age,” says 17-year- old Joe. “But we also wanna get kids younger than us,” adds 14-year-old Nick. “And older people, too,” 19-year-old Kevin pipes up. The highly anticipated follow-up to the New Jersey siblings’ 2006 debut— which featured the TRL hit “Mandy”—The Jonas Brothers is sure to make good on the band’s goal: It’s a high-energy pop-punk disc overflowing with insanely catchy hooks, muscular guitar fuzz and mature songwriting that reveals just how much growing up the boys have done since we last heard from them...This album is so us,” says Joe. “The first one was us kind of coming into what the Jonas Brothers could be,” Kevin adds. “Whereas this one really shows off where we’re at right now.” The youngest Jonas but perhaps the wisest, Nick concludes thus: “We love what we’re doing and we want to do it for a while.”
About Colbie Caillat A great song, says Colbie Caillat, should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Taking her own sound advice, "Coco", the debut album by the 22 year-old Californian singer-songwriter is simply crammed full of them…She began singing with serious intent at the age of 11 after hearing Lauryn Hill's version of Killing Me Softly. "I think her voice is absolutely beautiful and it made me want to start singing so I entered a talent show and of course I sang a Lauryn Hill song…" As she grew older, however, her father offered one crucial piece of advice. It was all very well having a great voice, he pointed out, the people who command real respect in the music business are the songwriters. "I thought about that for a long time", she says... And from the sunny, upbeat promise of songs such as Bubbly and Oxygen to the gentle, semi-r & b groove of The Little Things and the lilting reggae of Tied Down, "Coco" is one of those classic albums that simply makes you feel glad to be alive. "You make me smile, please stay for a while," she sings on Bubbly. It really ought to be her mantra…”
About Elliott Yamin “My friends kept saying I had nothing to lose,” says singer-songwriter Elliott Yamin of his decision to audition for “American Idol,” “and I really didn’t. I was at a point in my life where I had no direction. I was just scraping by at my job. I thought, I’m 27 years old and what do I have to show for it? I was lost. Deep down inside, I wondered if by trying out, I could somehow put myself on a path to something I’d always longed for but never admitted to anyone.” The secret was on its way out well before Yamin finished third in the fifth season of “Idol” (in a historically close race behind Taylor Hicks and Katherine McPhee); early in the competition, the ever-prickly Simon Cowell deemed him “potentially the best male vocalist in the history of ‘American Idol.’” With the release of his debut album, Elliott Yamin (due March 20, 2007, on Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s Hickory Records), few will believe this accomplished vocalist was once too embarrassed to sing out in his middle-school choir class.
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