09/09/2009

Luke Bryan Announces Statesboro Farm Show

LUKE BRYAN ANNOUNCES INAGURAL �FARM TOUR� SHOW

October 5 Statesboro, Georgia

GAC�s Top 20 Show On Site For Event 
 
Nashville (Sept. 8, 2009) � Capitol Records Nashville artist Luke Bryan has just announced his inaugural Farm Tour show on October 5 in Statesboro, Georgia. The brainstorm for the Farm Tour concept came from Bryan as a way to give back to a charity or organization in local farming communities. These special one-off shows will continue throughout Bryan�s career with additional dates already planned for 2010. Further details on these Farm Tour shows will be announced at a later time. GAC�s Top 20 will film their show on site in Statesboro.

�Being from a rural farming community, the Farm Tour is something I have envisioned for a very long time,� says Bryan. �I love the thought of setting up on a farm and building our own little world, starting small and growing it each time. We can never do enough to bring awareness to the hard working farmers of this country.�

The October 5 Farm Tour event will be staged at Hurricane Plantation in Claxton, Georgia, a suburb of Statesboro, with monies raised going to a scholarship fund for students at Georgia Southern University, Bryan�s alma mater. Tickets are available online Thursday, September 10 at lukebryan.com and also hard tickets available September 12 at Harry�s BBQ & Seafood in Hagan, GA.  Great American Country will film the Top 20 Countdown Show from the show.

The first-ever Farm Tour show is also the kick-off for Bryan�s Doin� My Thing album launch where he plans to head to multiple cities in a two week timeframe to meet his fans and play new music. Doin� My Thing is due in stores October 6.
 
Bryan had a career making 2008 with two major award nominations including a CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year nomination and his first nomination from the Academy of Country Music for �Best New Male Artist.� He was also chosen as Billboard�s 2007 country artist to watch and landing on �Best of 2007� lists for: Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio to name a few. Bryan has been part of three major tours before this year's Miller Lite tour with some of country music�s biggest artists in 2008 - Kenny Chesney�s �Poets & Pirates� stadium dates, Trace Adkins� �American Man� tour and Dierks Bentley�s �Throttle Wide Open� tour.