For Immediate Release

   For more information, contact:
   Steve Rosa, 703.923.7612                                 Lara Coffee,  703.923.7608
   srosa@sempercomm.org                                    lcoffee@sempercomm.org

MEDIA ADVISORY
You’re Invited to have a conversation with Chely Wright


SPRINGFIELD, VA – April 17, 2007 – Country singer and songwriter Chely Wright will be performing at the 2007 SemperComm Gala Thursday, May 10,   at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA.  Wright is a major  supporter of the U.S. military and has been on four overseas U.S.  military base tours in the last four years.  Her most recent was to  Kuwait, Iraq and Germany, performing six times in 12 days during late  February and early March of this year.

Wright has a brother who’s been an active-duty U.S. Marine for the past 15 years.  Her support for him –- and the U.S. Marines in particular -- helped inspire her recent and very moving hit “The Bumper of My S.U.V.”

As part of her time in the Washington area, Wright will be visiting wounded U.S. military personnel receiving treatment at both the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Wright’s performance at the SemperComm Gala will help raise needed funds to support the organization’s mission of providing communications and entertainment equipment, software and services to overseas remote U.S. military bases.

If your organization would like to schedule an interview with Wright to discuss her career, her support for the military and her performance at the SemperComm Gala, please contact Steve Rosa at 703.923.7612 or by  e-mail at srosa@sempercomm.org.

For more information on SemperComm or the Gala, go to www.sempercommgala.org.

                                 —SemperComm—



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