Randy Travis

Arizona Daily Wildcat
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Randy Travis to perform at UA
By:
Shain Bergan
Issue date: 8/10/09 Section:
As students filter onto the UA campus the weekend before the first day of fall classes,
country singer Randy Travis will be playing to a suspected full house at Centennial
Hall, UApresents officials said.
The 50-year-old Grammy Award winner will be performing new material from his most
recent album, Around the Bend, on Aug. 22, as part of UApresents' summer series that
began with the B-52s' visit to campus on June 24.
Centennial Hall has never hosted a country artist, so when Travis became available,
UApresents saw its opportunity, said Mario DiVetta, publicity and marketing associate
for UApresents.
"We always wanted a country artist," DiVetta said. "The way everything happened,
Randy Travis just kind of fell into our lap."
Due to Travis' status as the first multi-platinum country music star, UApresents
expects Centennial Hall to sell out its capacity of about 2,500, Di Vetta said.
"It's the right time … Students are coming back to school, and he just happened to
be coming through," DiVetta said. "So it just worked out perfectly."
Tickets range from $25 to $60 and are currently being sold on the UApresents Web
site and at the Centennial Hall box office. Call 621-3341 for more information.
Travis has 22 No. 1 hits to his name, along with six number one albums, five Grammy
Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to a UApresents press
release.