Widely acclaimed band to perform at WCHS
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The concert will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 17 at the Warren County High School auditorium. Tickets are on sale now at the library. Ticket price is $12, or $10 for those who present a Magness Library card. Proceeds will go to benefit the new teen area which will be opening with the completion of the Magness building expansion and renovation.
The group is a perfect fit for the library, according to tour promoter William Harmer, who is the department head at Chelsea District Library in Chelsea, Mich. Harmer says the band makes itself accessible to those who attend the concerts.
?The High Strung is a band that?s actually trying to make it in the music business,? Harmer said, ?which is what makes this program so interesting. It?s not just a band that plays cover songs, it?s a real, working band. They don?t have day jobs. This is what they do for a living.?
In addition to playing a full-set of their rousing Beatlesque jams, the band will talk about the business of rock music. Interested teens will get the firsthand low-down about making records for major music industry labels. They?ll also get an insider?s view of creating a video for MTV and learn about touring on the road year-round all across the country.
In what?s sure to be the highlight of this first-ever National Rock and Roll Library tour, at each appearance the band will solicit the audience?s help in writing and improvising a song on the spot.
According to the band Web site, which can be visited at www.thehighstrung.com, the group will ?Make history with the first-ever National Rock & Roll Library Tour? this summer, following a successful tour in 2005.
?Last year the quirky, carefree, energetic music of Detroit?s The High Strung electrified Michigan?s teen patrons with their sunny three-part harmonies and witty, lyrical bravado,? says the band?s promotion for its current tour. ?This year the furious guitars and squonking organ that accompany the band?s catchy sing-along choruses are roaming the country, headed in your direction. Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the best new, young rock & roll bands in America, NPR?s Ken Tucker named The High Strung?s debut album ?These Are The Good Times? as one of the Top 10 Rock Records of 2003, and the Washington Post called the title track ?runner up best song of the year.? In August of 2005, in a segment touting the library tour, The High Strung was also featured on National Public Radio?s ?This American Life.?
For more information, or to purchase tickets, come by Magness Library or call 931-473-2428.