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Gary Allan Brings a Little Bit of Country to Embry-Riddle

Gary AllanDaytona Beach, Fla., April 4, 2007 -- Called “country music’s sexy star” by People magazine, singer Gary Allan will perform an outdoor concert Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m. at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Allan has produced seven albums -- Used Heart For Sale, It Would Be You, the blockbuster Smoke Rings In The Dark, Alright Guy, See If I Care, Tough All Over, and his latest release, Gary Allan: Greatest Hits -- and has sold over 5 million records.

Rolling Stone says, “A gifted versatile singer such as the California-born Allan … is a rare find,” while Entertainment Weekly states, “The music of California honky-tonker Allan has always set itself apart with a dark, dreamy vibe and an edge of hypnotic danger.”

The concert is sponsored by Touch-N-Go Productions, the student-run entertainment division of Embry-Riddle’s Student Government Association.

The show, which is general admission only and standing room only, will be held at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., in the Cochran parking lot. Food, drinks, cameras, and recording devices are prohibited.

Tickets are general admission, $20; military with ID, $10; students of Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach Community College, and Stetson University, $10 with ID; Embry-Riddle students, faculty, and staff are admitted free with Eagle Card and may bring three free guests per card; Embry-Riddle accepted students also get in free.

Tickets can be purchased from Touch-N-Go at (386) 226-6047 or www.touch-n-go.org; in person at the Embry-Riddle Information Center in the John Paul Riddle Student Center (8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday); or the day of the show. On concert day, ticket sales/will call starts at 4 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.