WINNIPEG (Top40 Charts/ Canwest Global Communications) - Canwest Global Communications Corp. proudly announced today that Canada's best-loved rock 'n' roll icons, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, are supporting literacy through the Canwest Raise-a-Reader Concert Series. Partial proceeds from ticket sales from the cross-Canada tour by the legendary songwriting partners, will go to Canwest Raise-a-Reader to benefit local literacy groups in Canadian communities.
Bachman and Cummings will perform from their nearly endless songbook of mega-hits - from These Eyes, Laughing, Undun, No Sugar Tonight and American Woman to Takin' Care of Business, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, No Time and other gold and platinum hits - in the following Canadian cities: Victoria, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Kitchener, Windsor, Kingston, Ottawa and Montreal.
Winnipeg's own Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings now join the likes of Bob Dylan, Sam Roberts, James Taylor, Anne Murray and Michael Buble - all incredible musical talents who have generously supported the Canwest Raise-a-Reader Concert Series since its launch in the fall of 2007.
ABOUT RAISE-A-READER
Canwest Raise-a-Reader is a national campaign to generate funds for local literacy programs and increase awareness about the importance of encouraging family literacy. The Raise-a-Reader program has raised $12.7 million for literacy beneficiaries across Canada since it began in 2002. One hundred per cent of the money raised stays in the community it was given to support local programs.
ABOUT CANWEST
Canwest Global Communications Corp. (www.canwest.com), (TSX: CGS and CGS.A,) an international media company, is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, Canwest is Canada's largest publisher of English language daily newspapers and owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, web sites and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
TOUR DATES AND VENUES:
Victoria
June 17 - Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 250-220-7777
Abbotsford
June 19 - Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 1-866-977-2372
Kelowna
June 20 - Prospera Place
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 250-762-5050
Calgary
June 22 - Pengrowth Saddledome Theatre Bowl
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 403-777-0000
Edmonton
June 23 - Rexall Place Theatre Bowl
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 780-451-8000
Saskatoon
June 25 - Credit Union Centre Concert Bowl
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 306-938-7800
Regina
June 26 - Conexus Arts Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By Phone at 306-525-9999
Winnipeg
June 30 - MTS Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Charge By phone at 204-780-3333
Sudbury
Aug 4 - Sudbury Arena
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Arena Box Office; Charge by Phone at 705-671-3000
Kitchener
Aug 5 - Centre In The Square
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Centre Box Office; Charge by Phone at 519-578-1570
Windsor
Aug 7 - WFCU Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com, WFCU Box Office; Charge by Phone at 1-866-969-WFCU
Kingston
Aug 8 - K-ROCK Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; Centre Box Office; Charge by Phone at 877-554-8399
Ottawa
Aug 10 - National Arts Centre
Tickets available at www.livenation.com; NAC Box Office; Ticketmaster outlets; Charge by Phone at 613-755-1111
Montreal
Aug 12 - Theatre St-Denis
Tickets available at www.ticketpro.ca or www.geg.ca; St-Denis Theatre; or Charge by Phone at 514-790-1111
