Wristbands for Darius Rucker’s pop-up concert went like hotcakes this morning.
Update [11:45 a.m.]: The wristbands for Darius Rucker’s pop-up concert are gone. Enjoy the show, and be sure to wear your CofC gear! #CMTInstantJam
Tune in at 10 p.m. (ET) on Sept. 5, 2015, to watch all of today’s fun and excitement on Country Music Television’s Instant Jam program.
Country Music Television (CMT) announced this morning that Charleston native Darius Rucker will perform a free concert Wednesday (Aug. 26, 2015) for College of Charleston students at the Windjammer on the Isle of Palms at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free for those who are lucky enough to receive an exclusive admission wristband.
The College will begin issuing the wristbands starting at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning (Aug. 26, 2015) in the College of Charleston’s Cistern Yard. A limited number of wristbands will be issued for this intimate concert.
The concert will be filmed for CMT’s Instant Jam program.
Watch Darius Rucker and Cary Ann Hearst discuss songwriting at a CofC lecture series.
Rucker first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. The band released five studio albums with Rucker at the helm and charted six top 40 hits.
In 2008, Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville as a country music artist, releasing the album Learn to Live that same year. Its first single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” reached No.1 on the charts. It was followed by two more No. 1 singles, “It Won’t Be Like This for Long” and “Alright.”
In 2009, he won the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association.
A second Capitol album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the No. 1 singles, “Come Back Song” and “This.”
Rucker’s third solo album, True Believers, followed in early 2013 and generated a massive hit with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Wagon Wheel,” a No. 1 country single that crossed over to No. 15 on the pop charts on its way to triple-platinum certification.
His fourth country studio album, Southern Style, was released on March 31, 2015.
Watch Darius Rucker sing the National Anthem at a College of Charleston basketball game in 2014.
