Executive Sessions: Chip's Country Showcase June 19, 2008

For Immediate Release
Contact: Berklee College of Music
Nick Balkin (617) 747-2247

Executive Sessions Concert Series Showcasing

Bands with Local CEOs Continues with

Chip's Country Showcase: A Roll of Quarters and a Pedal Steel

June 19, at Berklee’s Cafe 939

Featuring Chip Rives, CEO, TRP Marketing

Boston, MA, June 13, 2008 — Giving new meaning to the term “corporate gig," Executive Sessions, a new concert series that showcases bands whose members include Boston-area CEOs and corporate executives, continues with Chip's Country Showcase: A Roll of Quarters and a Pedal Steel, featuring Chip Rives, CEO, TRP Marketing, Thursday, June 19, 8:00 p.m., at Berklee’s Cafe 939. This night of country music written by Rives will feature Mike Elkins, with Berklee students Jen Bostic, Adam Tressler, Merrily Scruggs-James, and Ryan Shergold. Tom Glynn opens the show.

Tickets are $10.00 and are available at the Berklee Performance Center box office, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, through Ticketmaster at 617 931-2000, or at ticketmaster.com. Cafe 939, located at 939 Boylston Street, is Berklee’s new all-ages, student-run coffee house and music venue. The space is wheelchair accessible.

Produced by Tom Simons, president/creative director, PARTNERS+simons, Executive Sessions will run on various Thursday evenings through early summer. All proceeds from the series, including a financial contribution from PARTNERS+simons, will benefit Berklee scholarship programs. Simons’ band The Loomers kicked-off the series in April.

Cafe 939, located at 939 Boylston Street, is Berklee’s new all-ages, student-run music venue designed to showcase emerging student talent, local artists, and national acts. The 200-person capacity venue is open to the general public and features high-end PA and lighting systems, video and DVD capabilities, and flexible seating. Music business/management majors are responsible for the booking, marketing, publicity, and promotion of all shows. Berklee students also work as ushers, as box office clerks, and in the stage crew. For information on all upcoming events at Cafe 939, call 617-747-2261, or visit berklee.edu/events.

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