2008 Woodie Awards
'Girls with Guitars' benefit
Holly Davis
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: News
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Country music stars Trisha Yearwood, Deana Carter and Matraca Berg will headline WGAR's Girls with Guitars benefit concert Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Stocker Center on the Lorain County Community College campus.
Community Health Partners will team up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to present the benefit concert for the fight against breast cancer.
Yearwood started her career in 1991 and became the first female country singer to sell a million copies of her debut album. Her greatest hits album was released on Sept. 11.
Carter has an album due out on Oct. 9 and will have duets with other country singers. Her song "Strawberry Wine" won the CMA single of the year in 1997. It topped the charts and sold over 5 million copies.
Berg, although not as well known as the other two, is most famous for writing the song for Carter called "Strawberry Wine". She also wrote for Yearwood including the song "XX's and OO's."
Lisa Sands, a promoter at WGAR radio, said tickets are sold out already but they will be giving them away on the air. Sands said the seats are very good, mostly in the second and third rows, but people will have to listen to win.
This is the seventh concert Girls with Guitars has put on benefiting the fight for the cure. Nancy Brinker started the Susan G. Komen Foundation in 1982 in memory of her sister. Susan Komen died from breast cancer after battling the disease for more than three years.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The survivors and activists of the Susan G. Komen Foundation will be across the country participating in events like the Komen Race for the Cure and WGAR's Girls with Guitars concert to continue to help raise money for the organization.
For more details, visit www.wgar.com or lorainccc.edu/stocker, or call 1-800-995-5222 extension 4040 or (440) 366-4040.
Community Health Partners will team up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to present the benefit concert for the fight against breast cancer.
Yearwood started her career in 1991 and became the first female country singer to sell a million copies of her debut album. Her greatest hits album was released on Sept. 11.
Carter has an album due out on Oct. 9 and will have duets with other country singers. Her song "Strawberry Wine" won the CMA single of the year in 1997. It topped the charts and sold over 5 million copies.
Berg, although not as well known as the other two, is most famous for writing the song for Carter called "Strawberry Wine". She also wrote for Yearwood including the song "XX's and OO's."
Lisa Sands, a promoter at WGAR radio, said tickets are sold out already but they will be giving them away on the air. Sands said the seats are very good, mostly in the second and third rows, but people will have to listen to win.
This is the seventh concert Girls with Guitars has put on benefiting the fight for the cure. Nancy Brinker started the Susan G. Komen Foundation in 1982 in memory of her sister. Susan Komen died from breast cancer after battling the disease for more than three years.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The survivors and activists of the Susan G. Komen Foundation will be across the country participating in events like the Komen Race for the Cure and WGAR's Girls with Guitars concert to continue to help raise money for the organization.
For more details, visit www.wgar.com or lorainccc.edu/stocker, or call 1-800-995-5222 extension 4040 or (440) 366-4040.
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