The great Charlie Daniels rocks Aiken, S.C., Tuesday, October 9 in a 25th Anniversary Benefit Concert for Golden Harvest Food Bank. Corporate sponsors include AB Beverage, ACC Construction, the Augusta Chronicle, the Bull/102.3, Carlisle Tire & Wheel, Comcast, Eagle/105.7, JEBCO, and WRDW-TV12. Yep, the Charlie Daniels Band - legendary for crossing genres from rock to soul to country - will perform October 9 at the new USC-Aiken Convocation Center. Augustan songwriter/guitarist John Kolbeck will open the concert, and tickets are available on line at www.uscatix.com or can be reserved by calling 1-866-722-8877 or by visiting the box office.

Charlie Daniels is partly Western and partly Southern. His signature "bull rider" hat and belt buckle, his lifestyle on the Twin Pines Ranch, and his love of horses - identify him as a Westerner; but hits like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" confirm his Wilmington, N.C. roots, and his music - fusing elements of rock, country, bluegrass, blues and gospel - is quintessentially Southern.

Charlie Daniels' rebel anthems "Long Haired Country Boy" and "The South's Gonna Do It" propelled his 1975 collection Fire On the Mountain to Double Platinum status. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a Platinum single, topping both country and pop charts, and won a Grammy Award. Charlie Daniels earned three Country Music Association trophies and his music became a cornerstone of the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack, propelling his Million Mile Reflections album to Triple Platinum sales status.

Tickets for the event are $27 (plus applicable service fees) and there are $22 discount seats for groups, military and students. All seats are reserved and available at www.uscatix.com, the USC Aiken Convocation Center Box Office and will be available by telephone at 1- 866-722-8877. All seats are reserved, so the sooner you buy, the better the seat.