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B.B. KING BOOKED TO HELP CELEBRATE LANCASTER'S BIRTHDAY.


Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England
Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River.
 - Blues legend B.B. King will perform Nov. 21 for the city's 25th anniversary celebration.

``They're always looking to get the very best acts they can, and for the anniversary concert especially,'' city spokeswoman Anne Aldrich said.

People can buy King tickets starting June 19 at the Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre.  box office, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Seats are $80 in the pit, $75 in the orchestra section and $70 in the balcony Balcony (from Italian balcone, scaffold; cf. High German balcho, beam, balk; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant .

The 76-year-old guitarist will visit Lancaster as part of a California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W).  tour.

His performance is part of the city's year-long anniversary commemoration, which will be capped with a downtown street festival in December.

Lancaster incorporated its city government Nov. 22, 1977, although the community itself originated more than 100 years earlier as a settlement of railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more.  workers.

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Date:Apr 13, 2002
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