The Cohen Community Series presents An Evening with Phil Vassar at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College.
Vassar has produced 16 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including two No. 1s ¬ Just Another Day in Paradise (2000) and In a Real Love (2004). With charisma and GQ-good looks (really, his photo was in the magazine), the baritone, pianist and songwriter will be performing his well-known hits, including those from his newest album, Prayer of a Common Man.
As a songwriter, Vassar scored hits for artists Tim McGraw (For a Little While, My Next Thirty Years), Jo Dee Messina (Bye, Bye, I'm Alright), Collin Raye (Little Red Rodeo), and Alan Jackson (Right on the Money). In 1999, he was first named by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) as Country Songwriter of the Year.
Tickets for Phil Vassar are $40 and $55. Call the Carlsen Center box office, 913-469-4445, or buy online at www.jccc.edu/philvassar. A limited number of $150 VIP tickets will include the concert and a post-show reception with Vassar, available by contacting Christy
McWard, cmcward@jccc.edu. All proceeds go to JCCC scholarships and programs.
The American country music star is the second presenter in the Cohen Community Series, inaugurated last year in honor of the late Barton P. Cohen, president of Metcalf Bancshares, vice chairman and general counsel of Metcalf Bank and an attorney with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP.
