Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Jordin Sparks to play Cooper's show

Larry Rodgers
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 8, 2007 03:34 PM
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/1108pudding1109.html?&wired

Glendale's own American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks, will appear at this year's installment of Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding on Dec. 15 at Phoenix's Dodge Theatre.

Joining Sparks and Cooper onstage will be country's Whiskey Falls, Flo & Eddie of the Turtles, comic


Mike "Blackjack" Wilson and the Destiny Dancers, a troupe founded by Cooper's wife, Sheryl.


More performers are expected to be announced in coming weeks.

Tickets, priced at $33 to $63, go on sale on Nov. 9 at ticketmaster.com or (480) 784-4444.

Sparks, crowned the sixth American Idol this year, won Cooper's "Proof Is in the Pudding" contest in 2004. That contest, which will have its finals this year on Nov. 26 at Alice Cooper'stown in Phoenix, selects a solo artist and band to play at the benefit.

Christmas Pudding, now in its seventh year, raises money for the Solid Rock Foundation, which plans to build a $7 million teen center in central Phoenix.

Last year's concert raised $155,000.

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