Steelback announces Mellencamp, Tom Cochrane details

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JOHN MELLENCAMP
TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008

STEELBACK CENTRE – SAULT STE. MARIE

Doors: 6:30 p.m.

Show: 7:30 p.m.

Tickets on sale Friday, November 9, 2007 @ 10 a.m.

Tickets available at Steelback Centre Box Office (10 a.m. -4 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday)

Charge by phone at (866) 775-9422

Order online at www.steelbackcentre.com

Tickets (incl. GST) $150 & $59.50, reserved Seating (plus FMF and service charges)

John Mellencamp, having just embarked on a six-week U.S. tour this week, will be performing a series of Canadian dates, across six provinces, in February, 2008.

Mellencamp will be joined on the bill by Canada’s own Tom Cochrane & Red Rider for a total of 12 performance dates that kick off on February 1 in Montreal.

The tour goes on to Ontario for dates in Ottawa, London, Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie.

These will be followed by concerts in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Red Deer, Calgary, with the last three dates on the Pacific coast in Kelowna, Vancouver and Victoria.

Mellencamp noted: “We’re very excited about playing these dates with Tom for our friends across Canada. We’ve incorporated some interesting innovations in terms of staging and lighting that are working out very well for us on the current tour that we’ll be bringing along. But, of course, what’s most important, the essence of these shows, is the music and the songs.”

Tom Cochrane commented, “We will be doing a one hour set and it will be packed with songs like ‘Life Is A Highway,’ ‘Big League,’ ‘Lunatic Fringe,’ ‘White Hot,’ ‘Boy Inside the Man,’ ‘Good Times’ and more: songs that are close to a lot of Canadian hearts. The band is sounding outrageously good these days and we are looking forward to this tour."

Mellencamp and his band - Mike Wanchic, (guitar), Andy York (guitar), Dane Clark (drums), John Gunnell (bass), Miriam Sturm (violin) and Troye Kinnett (keyboards) - have been working together almost continually since early in August when they participated in recording sessions for a new album, as yet untitled, produced by T Bone Burnett.

It is expected that some of the songs from that album will be performed on the Canadian concert tour as well as Mellencamp’s classic repertoire.

In keeping with a policy that started more than ten years ago, members of the official John Mellencamp fan club, Club Cherry Bomb, will be offered early access to premium tickets via an Internet pre-sale available through the fan club website: ClubCherryBomb.net

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