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Country music trio Lady Antebellum will return to Augusta for a concert benefitting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta.
The concert is April 29 at the Lady Antebellum Pavilion, according to the Kicks 99 Web site. Tickets go on sale March 14 and can be purchased online.
Band members Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood graduated from Lakeside High School in 2000. The pavilion at Columbia County’s Evans Towne Center Park was named in the band’s honor in 2011.
Lady Antebellum’s fourth album “Golden” has produced a No. 1 country hit “Downtown.” The group has won multiple Grammy and County Music Association awards.
The group has returned to the road for the first time since vocalist Hillary Scott gave birth to her first child in July.
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Karen Jay Fowler, best known for her novel "The Jane Austen Book Club," is a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced that Fowler has been nominated for "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," the story of a Midwestern family's travails. The other four finalists are Daniel Alarcon's "At Night We Walk In Circles," Percival Everett's "Percival Everett By Virgil Russell" and a pair of short story collections, Joan Silber's "Fools" and Valerie Trueblood's "Search Party." The winner, to be announced April 2, will receive $15,000. Finalists receive $5,000.
Previous winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett and Sherman Alexie.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 70. Musician-actor Micky Dolenz of The Monkees is 69. Bassist Randy Meisner (The Eagles, Poco) is 68. Singer Peggy March is 66. Singer Gary Numan is 56. Actor Aidan Quinn is 55. Guitarist Jimmy Dormire of Confederate Railroad is 54. Actress Camryn Mannheim ("The Practice") is 53. Singer Shawn Mullins is 46. Actress Andrea Parker ("The Pretender") is 44. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 38. Actor James Van Der Beek is 37. Singer Kameelah Williams of 702 is 36. Singer Tom Chaplin of Keane is 35. Guitarist Andy Ross of OK Go is 35. Jessica Collins ("Revolution") is 31. Singer Kristinia DeBarge is 24.
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