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UT Tyler Presents Country Music’s Trace Adkins

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September 15, 2015

Media Contact:  Hannah Buchanan
Editor/Writer–Strategic Communications & Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.539.7196 (cell)

September 15, 2015

Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Executive Director
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.566.7303 or 903.330.0495 (cell)

Grammy-nominated baritone, Trace Adkins, will be the first concert special event of the 2015 – 16 season at The University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center, Susan Thomae-Morphew, Cowan Center executive director, announced.

A special event for the Braithwaite Intimate Gatherings Series, the Grand Ole Opry member will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19. This performance is sponsored by Juls. Media sponsors are Fox 51, KETK, Sunny 106.5 and Lamar Advertising.

Tickets are $77, $67, $52 and $47 and can be purchased at the UT Tyler Cowan Center box office by calling 903.566.7424 or online at www.cowancenter.org. Box office hours are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and one hour prior to each event.

“It’s a great pleasure to bring Trace Adkins to the UT Tyler Cowan Center stage. Known for his trademark baritone voice, he’s had numerous chart-topping hits and sold over 10 million albums. His concert in Bossier City, Louisiana, last fall was received by an energetic house full of super fans. Let’s give him a big Tyler welcome and sell out his first performance at the Cowan Center,” said Thomae-Morphew.

Adkins is also a television personality, actor, author, spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Program, the American Red Cross and has performed seven USO Tours.

In his 2007 autobiography, A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, the 6’6″ oil-rigger recounted his rise to fame, brushes with death and battles with personal demons. He also explains just how the world’s biggest alpha-male handles fatherhood with five daughters.

In 2008, his integrity and wry humor served him well as a finalist on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” and prepared him for his return, on behalf of the American Red Cross, to NBC’s “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.”

Adkins has played a tough as nails biker in the movie “The Lincoln Lawyer,” developed and hosted GAC’s “Great American Heroes,” and has hosted the American Country Awards on FOX for four consecutive years.

One of the 15 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,500 high-ability students. UT Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.