High Strung concert moves from high school to library

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard

Up-and-coming band High Strung will be performing at 2 p.m. this Saturday, June 17 at the Magness Library auditorium. The show has recently been moved from the high school auditorium, where it was originally scheduled, to the library.

The 2006 National Rock N? Roll Library Tour, featuring up-and-coming band High Strung, scheduled for this Saturday, June 17 at 2 p.m. has been moved from the Warren County High School auditorium to the Magness Library auditorium. Tickets have been reduced from $12 to $10, and if the purchaser has a Magness Library card and book checkout receipt they can get the tickets at half price, $5.

The show has been moved from the high school to the library due, in part, to lagging ticket sales, so a number of seats are still available for this entertaining and informative performance.

Tickets are on sale in advance at the library, the Chamber of Commerce and Highland Rim Music. Credit card orders can be made 473-6611. Tickets will also be available at the door on the day of the performance as well. For further information about the show call the library at 473-2428.

The High Strung, whose members got their musical start in a public library, will be performing in over 50 cities across the U.S. this summer and the Magness Library concert is the only appearance the band will be making in Tennessee.

The band has been compared to the Beatles and hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as ?one of the best new, young rock and roll bands in America today.? They?ve been featured on National Public Radio?s ?This American Life,? and their debut album, ?These are the Good Times,? was named by NPR?s Ken Tucker as one of the Top Ten Rock Records of 2003.

After the concert the band will engage the audience in a question and answer session on how to promote a band and will share information about making records for major music industry labels and creating videos for MTV. Not only that, they will involve the audience members in the process of writing a song on the spot.

The proceeds from the performance will go to setting up a Teen Department in the library, and is also designed to encourage more teens and young adults to use the library.

?We really have a lot to offer,? said library director Mary Robbins, ?and hope to add more for this age group.?

Once again, library officials want to emphasize the performance will no longer be at the WCHS auditorium. It has been moved to the Magness Library auditorium.