Haynes Xmas Jam Announced Today @ 5pm

20^th anniversary edition to stretch across two star-packed nights.

By Fred Mills

This afternoon at  5pm EST the announcement for this year's Warren Haynes Christmas Jam will arrive via the event's official website and over the airwaves at selected radio stations. Details including the roster of performers and ticketing information - the official public on-sale for tickets is always preceded by a pre-sale for fans who register at the site - will be disclosed for the 2008 Jam, which takes place on December 12 & 13 at the Civic Center in Asheville, NC.

The 2008 installment will mark the 20^th anniversary of the Jam, hence the expansion of the event to two evenings instead of the one. As has been the custom in recent years there will be an invitation-only pre-jam Jam on Dec. 11 at the 900+ capacity Orange Peel venue in Asheville. Each year brings new surprises in the artist lineup as well as the possibility of a mini-Bonnaroo springing up around the numerous collaboration possibilities - that's why they call it a "jam."

Proceeds from each year's Warren Haynes Christmas Jam go to benefit Habit For Humanity.

Be watching the BLURT site at 5pm for details of the Jam, or go to the website listed above. You can also tune into WNCW-FM (located in Spindale, NC, near Asheville) at 5pm to hear an interview the station conducted with Haynes earlier this week in which he sketches out the information. Locally it's 88.7 on the FM dial, and online at WNCW.org.