Rowan to host New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs music concert
Rowan to host New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs music concert
March 22, 2007
May 17 event featuring high school students to be broadcast
live on WGLS-FM
Rowan University will host the 2007 New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs competition on Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Pfleeger Concert Hall in the University's Wilson Hall.
A statewide music competition, the event features high school students from throughout the state who will perform their original songs. All of the songs have substance abuse prevention messages.
Lynn Doyle, the Emmy-winning host of CN8's "It's Your Call With Lynn Doyle" on the Comcast network, will serve as host of the event, which will be filmed by Comcast and broadcast live on Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM. The competition also can be heard world-wide through Rowan Radio's web site at wgls.rowan.edu.
The event, now in its third year, is organized by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey and sponsored by Comcast.
"The New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs music competition is an excellent opportunity to highlight the positive contributions that our state's young people can make in substance abuse prevention and education," says Angelo M. Valente, executive director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
South Jersey competitors in New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs include "Take Five," a group from Gateway High School, performing "We Have the Power" and featuring students Gabriel Di Gennaro, Justin Drach, Christopher Lundquist, and Scott Purcell; and Burlington City High School student Deyonna Kai Phillips, who will perform "Drug Free Life."
For information on the event and for a list of all contestants, visit: http://www.drugfreenj.org/NJSDD/NJSDD07a.htm.
For complimentary tickets to the concert, call Rowan's Box Office at 856-256-4545.
Rowan University will host the 2007 New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs competition on Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Pfleeger Concert Hall in the University's Wilson Hall.
A statewide music competition, the event features high school students from throughout the state who will perform their original songs. All of the songs have substance abuse prevention messages.
Lynn Doyle, the Emmy-winning host of CN8's "It's Your Call With Lynn Doyle" on the Comcast network, will serve as host of the event, which will be filmed by Comcast and broadcast live on Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM. The competition also can be heard world-wide through Rowan Radio's web site at wgls.rowan.edu.
The event, now in its third year, is organized by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey and sponsored by Comcast.
"The New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs music competition is an excellent opportunity to highlight the positive contributions that our state's young people can make in substance abuse prevention and education," says Angelo M. Valente, executive director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
South Jersey competitors in New Jersey Shouts Down Drugs include "Take Five," a group from Gateway High School, performing "We Have the Power" and featuring students Gabriel Di Gennaro, Justin Drach, Christopher Lundquist, and Scott Purcell; and Burlington City High School student Deyonna Kai Phillips, who will perform "Drug Free Life."
For information on the event and for a list of all contestants, visit: http://www.drugfreenj.org/NJSDD/NJSDD07a.htm.
For complimentary tickets to the concert, call Rowan's Box Office at 856-256-4545.