EWF 40th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR Comes to PPAC 5/12/11

The Providence Performing Arts Center is pleased to present EARTH, WIND & FIRE on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM. Tickets for their "EWF 40th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR" go on sale at the PPAC Box Office, located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence; online at www.ppacri.org and by phone at (401) 421 - ARTS (2787) on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 10 AM. Regular Box Office Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM; Saturday, 10 AM to 2 PM and through curtain time(s) on show days. Tickets are $78, $68, $58, and $48; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration charge. Please note that PPAC ticket pricing is subject to change without notice.

Discounted admission is available for groups of 20 or more; for more information and to order, please contact Group Sales Representative Paul Hiatt via email: phiatt@ppacri.org or call (401) 574-3162.

EARTH, WIND & FIRE has received eight Grammy® Awards and four American Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, where they reunited on stage for one night only. The music and showmanship of EARTH, WIND & FIRE remains a natural for traditional media and new media alike. VH1, HBO and the Arts & Entertainment (A&E) Network have all aired top rated concert performances with A&E releasing its 1999 Live By Request program on DVD. EARTH, WIND & FIRE continues to appear on numerous network television shows from "The Grammy® Awards" to "Leno." Hollywood continues to have a love affair with their mass appealing music, commissioning new EARTH, WIND & FIRE music for films such as Roll, Bounce ("Love Together"), Robots ("Love's Dance") and Hitch, ("This is How I Feel"), as well as tapping their classics for films such as Be Cool ("Fantasy"), Soul Food ("September") and Muppets in Outer Space ("Shining Star").