[220] MTSU Professors Return To The 'Dark Side' For Dec. 3 Performance

MTSU PROFESSORS RETURN TO THE ‘DARK SIDE’ FOR DEC. 3 PERFORMANCE
Tribute Band to Perform Pink Floyd Classics at The Blue Rooster

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 29, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Steve Holeman, steve@steveholeman.com or 615-995-6013

(MURFREESBORO)—The Pink Floyd tribute band Us & Them return to The Blue Rooster on Murfreesboro’s Public Square on Friday, Dec. 3, to perform the best-selling album “Dark Side of the Moon” and other Pink Floyd classics.

Cost for the event, which begins at 9:15 p.m., is $9 per person, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit scholarships for MTSU’s Recording Industry Program. Us & Them’s debut earlier this fall at a benefit performance for Autism Speaks netted almost $2,000 from a packed house and seeded a subsequent event that raised more than $100,000 for the charity.

Us & Them includes MTSU recording-industry professors Bill Crabtree, Cosette Collier and Dale Brown and Computer Information Systems professor Amy Hennington as part of a 10-piece band. Us & Them also features Steve Holeman, John Nichols, Tinnin Martin, Stacey Lee and Candace Warner. The talented group has taken on the task of performing the rock classic album as close to the original recording as possible—“from the first heartbeat to the last,” Brown said.

The idea to perform “Dark Side of the Moon,” Pink Floyd’s most commercially successful album, arose during rehearsals for a cover band called 2nd & Vine. That group includes several Us & Them members and is scheduled to perform until midnight following the Us & Them show.

“Dark Side of the Moon,” which has sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone, spawned two singles, “Money” and “Us and Them.”

For more information about the show, including reserved seating, contact Holeman at 615-995-6013 or Steve@SteveHoleman.com before Wednesday, Dec. 1.
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IN BRIEF: The Pink Floyd tribute band Us & Them return to The Blue Rooster on Murfreesboro’s Public Square on Friday, Dec. 3, to perform the best-selling album “Dark Side of the Moon” and other Pink Floyd classics. Cost for the event, which begins at 9:15 p.m., is $9 per person, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit scholarships for MTSU’s Recording Industry Program. Us & Them includes MTSU recording-industry professors Bill Crabtree, Cosette Collier and Dale Brown and Computer Information Systems professor Amy Hennington as part of a 10-piece band. For more information, contact Steve Holeman at 615-995-6013 or Steve@SteveHoleman.com.


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