Who: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

When: Tue, Sep 30 @ 8p

Where: Rose Quarter – Theater of the Clouds (Portland, Oregon)

Tickets: Tickets are priced at $135.00, $79.50, $69.50 and $45.00 Tickets go on sale Sat. Jul 26 at 10a and can be purchased at the Rose Quarter Box Office (M-F 10a-5p), all participating Safeway/ TicketsWest outlets, by calling 877.789.ROSE (7673), or at ComcastTIX.com. For more information please visit RoseQuarter.com. Prices do not include service charges. To receive event notices, pre-sale opportunities, discounts and prizes join our free Rose Quarter CyberClub at RoseQuarter.com.

What: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just announced additional fall dates for their wildly successful ‘Raising Sand’ tour and will be coming to Theater of the Clouds Tuesday, September 30. With an all-star band led by producer T Bone Burnett, the Grammy-winning duo has crisscrossed North America and Europe performing songs from their platinum selling Raising Sand (Rounder Records) collaboration. The song "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" from Raising Sand won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals in 2008.

Robert Anthony Plant is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the English rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career. After the breakup of Led Zeppelin in 1980, Plant pursued a successful solo career beginning with Pictures at Eleven in 1982, followed by 1983's The Principle of Moments. Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006. Plant still actively tours. His sets typically include recent, but not only, solo material and plenty of Led Zeppelin favorites, often with new and expanded arrangements.

Robert Plant's voice and singing technique was very unusual compared to other rock lead singers of the era such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and others, and these traits helped to define the unique sound of Led Zeppelin. One of his biggest influences was Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Humble Pie.

Alison Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album at sixteen in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss + Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.

She has thus far released more than ten albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and has helped usher in a new interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the Grammy-winning O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. During her career she has won 21 Grammy Awards—more than any other female artist and tied for seventh-most among all artists—along with numerous other awards.

Rose Quarter
The Rose Quarter in Portland, OR is owned by an affiliate of the Portland Trail Blazers and managed by AEG Facilities. The Rose Quarter includes 20,000-seat Rose Garden, 12,000-seat Memorial Coliseum, 6,500-seat Theater of the Clouds, 40,000-square foot Exhibit Hall and the Rose Quarter Commons. Home to the NBA Portland Trail Blazers and the NLL Portland LumberJax, the Rose Garden is a $262 million multi-purpose arena that opened in the fall of 1995. The WHL Winter Hawks play in Memorial Coliseum, which opened in 1961 and served as the original home of the Trail Blazers. Memorial Coliseum is attached to 40,000-square foot Exhibit Hall and seven meeting rooms. The Commons, Portland’s largest outdoor public plaza, connects the Rose Garden and the Memorial Coliseum and can accommodate up to 5,000 people for outdoor events. Ovations Food Services is the official food and beverage concessionaire for the Rose Quarter.

About AEG Facilities
AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. AEG Facilities, a stand-alone affiliate of AEG, owns, operates or consults with many of the industries preeminent venues worldwide including the Rose Quarter (Portland, OR), STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA), Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO), Prudential Center (Newark, NJ), Toyota Sports Center (El Segundo, CA), The Home Depot Center, (Carson, CA), The XL Center (Hartford, CT), El Rey Theatre (Hollywood, CA), The Arena at The Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, CA), Rentschler Field (Hartford, CT), Target Center (Minneapolis, MN), Conseco Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, IN), E-Center (West Valley City, Utah), AT&T Center (San Antonio, TX), Jobing.com Arena (Glendale, AZ), Time Warner Cable Arena (Charlotte, NC) and The O2, a 28-acre development located in the eastern part of London along the Thames River which includes a 20,000-seat arena and over 650,000 sq. ft. of leisure and entertainment use. The company is also developing arenas including O2 World (on 45-acres in central Berlin), Citizen’s Business Bank Arena (Ontario, CA) and on the Las Vegas Strip.

Media: All interested media that would like to inquire about interviews, attend and review, photograph and/or videotape this event should contact Erin Schumacher at 503.963.3848 or Erin.Schumacher@rosequarter.com.

7/15/2008