Kickoff Concert and Welcome Back Spirit Rally featuring Parachute
Venue: Downtown Blacksburg, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013
Time: 6:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Sports, Miscellaneous
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech Class of 2015 presents the Kickoff Concert and Welcome Spirit Rally on Thursday, August 29th at the New College Avenue Promenade in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia.

Headlining the music will be the band Parachute. The opening act is MamaDear featuring Parker Bradway. The Spirit Rally will begin at 7 pm.

Parachute is a nationally recognized alternative rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia. Having played more than 400 shows over the last few years, touring around the country with everyone from NeedtoBreathe to Andy Grammer, Parachute’s live show continues to grow and impress. They’ve also played before several million at a New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, as well as appearing on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC’s Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS’ The Early Show. The band’s songs have been featured on MTV’s The City along with CW’s One Tree Hill, Vampire Diaries and 90210.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Parachute or http://www.weareparachute.com

MamaDear is a country music band consisting of Daniel Wilson, Parker Bradway and Kelly Tillotson based out of Nashville, Tennessee. When singer-songwriters Parker Bradway and Daniel Wilson met up on friend and fellow singer-songwriter Kelly Tillotson’s front porch one sunny morning in Nashville, they were not expecting anything more than a normal songwriting session. Two hours of harmonizing, foot stompin’ and guitar pickin’ they sensed something special was brewing. Little did they know that over the next couple of weeks that rickety white porch would birth the feel-good, sweet, southern sound that is MamaDear.

“We are going for a country, rootsy, homey sound, so it seems fitting that we would be formed on a porch!” says Daniel Wilson. In just a few short months MamaDear has already started to create a buzz around town playing at popular Nashville venues such as Puckett’s, Two Old Hippies, The Listening Room, The Mercy Lounge and more.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/mamadearmusic

All are invited and welcome.

In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved inside the Commonwealth Ballroom in the Squires Student Center.

For more information, visit: http://www.class.alumni.vt.edu/2015/

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