ALEXANDRIA, Va., (Army News Service, August 3, 2010) - The Coca-Cola Zero Music Tour will provide free afternoon concerts to Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation patrons starting this weekend through Sept. 11 at Army installations throughout the country.

Thirteen Army installations are scheduled to play host to the traveling caravan designed to reinvent a "battle of the bands" venue for independent military musical groups who aspire to perform in concert settings.

The goal of the tour is to have Soldier-bands perform prior to up-and-coming recording artists Junior and Lisa Palleschi, who will headline the shows headed to numerous NASCAR events and college football games throughout the Southeast, including the 2011 Senior Bowl.

Sgt. Corrin Campbell and The Election, who played the Lilith Fair with Sara McLachlan and The Indigo Girls, among others, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., on Tuesday, will fill the bill Saturday at Aberdeen.

Campbell (formerly Corrin Ziegler) of Fort Hood, Texas, was a member of the 2003 U.S. Army Soldier Show. She is now stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground as a member of the Army Materiel Command Band.

Campbell is the lead vocalist for Corrin Campbell and The Election. She also plays bass guitar and keyboards. The drummer is Sgt. Tony Corbett, another member of the Army Materiel Command Band. Lead guitarist Jim Boyer, a civilian majoring in criminal justice, completes the trio.

To perform at any of the remaining 11 military venues on the Coca-Cola Zero Music Tour, bands must submit video, audio and photographic entries online at www.entertainment.armymwr.com by clicking on the Coca-Cola Zero Music banner to create an account and enter the contest. The bands with the most votes through social media will open for Palleschi and Junior when the Coca-Cola Zero music stage goes live on their installation.

Palleschi's music has been featured in several sports-related programs and venues, ranging from NASCAR television shows to NFL stadiums. FOX Sports Net used her music and image to open Major League Baseball games throughout the 2009 season.

Palleschi, an accomplished musician and songwriter, has been rocking the club circuit in New York for the past several years in venues like the Bitter End and the Cutting Room. The Berklee College of Music graduate has spent the past several months in Nashville, New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia writing with some of today's premiere songwriters.

Junior is a pop punk-Southern rock band from Gladewater, Texas. Their style of music can be described as cowpunk, with mixes of punk (similar to Green Day), classic rock (similar to The Doors), and traditional Southern rock, (similar to Lynyrd Skynyrd). Junior has opened for bands such as Bowling for Soup, Unwritten Law, Reel Big Fish, The All-American Rejects and Everclear. Junior's music has been featured on national sports programming through FOX Sports Net and Speed TV.

Garrison officials are urged to pair the Coca-Cola Zero Music Tour with other activities on their installations to generate a full program of Family MWR-style fun and music. The tour comes with a 400-square-foot stage and 30,000-watt sound system. All that's required is a level surface that measures 60 x 60 square feet - and an audience.

The military portion of the free tour will open at 3 p.m. Friday on the Blue and Gray Field at Fort Detrick, Md., followed by a 5 p.m. show Saturday at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Other Coca-Cola Zero Music Tour venues include:

Aca,!Ac 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at Fort Lee, Va.

Aca,!Ac 2 p.m. Aug. 15 at Fort Eustis, Va.

Aca,!Ac 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at Fort Campbell, Ky.

Aca,!Ac 4 p.m. Aug. 28 at Fort Gordon, Ga.

Aca,!Ac 4 p.m. Sept. 1 at Fort Jackson, S.C.

Aca,!Ac 2 p.m. Sept. 3 at Fort Stewart, Ga.

Aca,!Ac 2 p.m. Sept. 7 at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Aca,!Ac 5 p.m. Sept. 8 at Fort Riley, Kan.

Aca,!Ac 5 p.m. Sept. 9 at Fort Sill, Okla.

Aca,!Ac6 p.m. Sept. 10 at Fort Hood, Texas

Aca,!Ac2 p.m. Sept. 11 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas