Welcome Weekend Concert Features Flo Rida
Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College are presenting
the Welcome Weekend Concert 2008 featuring Flo Rida, Saving Jane and Derrick McKee.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, at the Feaster Center. Tickets
are $20 for FSU and Pierpont students and $30 for the general public. To order tickets,
call (304) 368-7234 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Flo Rida's first single, "Low," shot to the top of many charts "Top 40 radio, Billboard's
Hot 100 and Hot RingMasters, Soundscan's Digital Song, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody,
MySpace, MTV's TRL, BET's 106 & Park "before the release of his Poe Boy/Atlantic Records
debut, "MAIL ON SUNDAY." His video for "Low" has been nominated for Best Male Video
and Best Hip Hop Video for the MTV Video Music Awards. For more information about
Flo Rida, visit http://www.officialflo.com/.
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, the alternative rock band Saving Jane is best known
for its hits "Girl Next Door" and "Once Girl Revolution." A shortened version of the
song "Girl Next Door" is the theme song for MTV's show "Tiara Girls." For more information
about Saving Jane, visit www.savingjane.com.
A native of Wheeling, W.Va., country artist Derrick McKee is a songwriter, producer,
vocalist and guitarist. His album "Drive Until Daylight" is his country music debut
and his first release on Navway Records. For more information about McKee, visit http://www.myspace.com/derrickmckeemusic.
