Country Group TelluRide Plays Benefit for High School, Slates Weekend of UT Football Activities

Posted by Lisa L. Rollins Sep 2, 2009

The members of country group TelluRide helped raise ­­­money for the music program at Fremont Senior High School in Nebraska over the weekend, with an Aug. 29 performance, before heading back across the country to perform at the University of Tennessee's Big Orange Blast fan-appreciation event to help kick off the '09 football season.

The festivities will begin at noon Thursday, Sept. 3, with an on-air performance on station WDVX in downtown Knoxville. That same evening, the group will perform an acoustic set at Wild Wing Cafe in conjunction with the Vol Radio Show. Then, early Friday morning, Sept. 4, the players will appear on WVLT-TV live from backstage at the Big Orange Blast site. (For those in the area who really want to to tune in, the players will be on at 5:30 a.m., yawn.)

But that's not all, because following a stop at WIVK Radio, the quartet--whose sound is rooted in harmonies, musicianship and high-energy stage shows--will move on to the UT campus for a one-hour acoustic performance at the President's Quad. The Big Orange Blast will kicks off at 7 p.m. at World's Fair Park, where the band will take in the Vols' match up against Western Kentucky on Saturday afternoon and perform a concert at Knoxville's Tin Roof following the game.

After the football-filled weekend, TelluRide--who are signed to American Roots Records--will be back on the road throughout the Midwest visiting radio, performing concerts and promoting the act's debut single, Pencil Marks. The Ricky Schroeder-directed music video for the single debuted on GACtv.com last week and will begin airing on CMT Pure on Sept 4,per reports from the band's reps.

To learn more about the band or sample music from its Four Square Miles CD, including Pencil Marks, the debut single that tells the story of a young boy growing up through the pencil marks on the wall, please visit the act's MySpace page.