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Scholarship Concert to Feature Noted Musician Marcia Ball

Singer and pianist Marcia Ball will be featured in the UT Tyler Patriot Cox Communications Scholarship Concert on May 15 at the UT Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Tickets for the concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., are $15 and all seating is general admission, not reserved. Tickets can be purchased at the UT Tyler Cowan Center box office, UT Tyler Office of University Advancement, Cox Communications on Glenwood Street or from UT Tyler Patriot and Longview University Center Patriot members.

Sponsored by Cox Communications and WE: Women’s Entertainment Television, this concert is one of five events that comprise the UT Tyler Patriot Classic.

Proceeds from the Patriot Classic benefit the university’s scholarship program for students of the Tyler, Longview and Palestine campuses.

Born in Orange, Texas and raised in Louisiana, Ball is known for her intelligent and emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads.

Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world.

Her performance at the Scholarship Concert will follow the April 22 release of her new album on Alligator Records, So Many Rivers.
Playing over 100 shows a year; Ball has appeared at virtually every major U.S. festival, including Austin City Limits and NPR's Fresh Air and Piano Jazz.

She appeared at Tyler’s Festival on the Square last fall.

Nominated this year for the W.C. Handy Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year Award as well as Blues Instrumentalist – Keyboard, Ball received the 2002 award for Blues Album of the Year for Presumed Innocent.

In 1999, she and her band appeared on a nationally televised PBS special Performance at the White House with B. B. King and Della Reese, and she was the featured guest on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, playing cuts from Presumed Innocent.

The UT Tyler Patriot Classic begins May 10 with the UT Tyler Patriot Cox Communications Million Dollar Hole-in-One Contest. Other events include Patriot Tennis Classic Pro-Am, May 10-11; UT Tyler Texas “Shootout” Barbecue and Auction, May 17; and Patriot Golf Classic, May 19.

For tickets and information, call 903.566.7110.

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Contact person: Emily Battle, (903) 565-5604