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bergenPAC presents LeAnn Rimes and Allison Strong

originally published: 11/07/2023


(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- LeAnn Rimes brings her The Story … So Far Tour to the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) in Englewood on Friday, November 17, 2023 at 8:00pm. LeAnn will take fans on a nostalgic journey through her expansive career. New Jersey native Allison Strong, a singer and actress, is the supporting act.

As an international multi-platinum selling acclaimed singer and ASCAP award-winning songwriter, Rimes has sold more than 37 million records worldwide, won two Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, two World Music Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, two Country Music Association Awards and one Dove Award. At age 14, she won “Best New Artist” making her the youngest recipient to take home a Grammy Award.

Following that record-breaking year with her biggest hit to date, “How Do I Live,” in 1997, Rimes released more hits including “One Way Ticket (Because I Can),” “The Light in Your Eyes” and many more.

The opening act for Leann Rimes is New Jersey’s own Allison Strong who will perform songs from her second album released June (2023) entitled Brontë.

Allison can be seen starring alongside Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in the Netflix original feature The Week Of and in the upcoming Netflix animated feature, Leo, alongside Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider and Jo Koy. She recurs as Talia Goldstein in Season Two of the Emmy-winning Amazon Series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and stars in the independent feature Either Side of Midnight directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Strong’s television credits also include NBC’s The Blacklist, Nickelodeon’s Dora and Friends & the PBS Kids Animated Series Pinkalicious & Peterrific.




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Strong is a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Music Composition Fellow, a recipient of the Garden State Film Festival Rising Star Award & the Images/Imágenes Performing Arts Award from Rutgers University. She is also an alumna of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Project and ASCAP’s Pop Songwriter’s Project.  She celebrates her Colombian heritage and was born and raised in New Jersey.

Tickets to see Leann Rimes and Allison Strong are available for purchase online, by calling 201-227-1020, or by visiting the box office at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey.

Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) is a theater of and for the community it serves throughout northern New Jersey by leading the way with a creative focus, educational resource, and engine of economic vitality. A nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, bergenPAC's mission is to make live performing arts and arts education accessible to its diverse community by building an innovative home for artists and teachers of excellence and relevance who entertain, enlighten, inspire, and inform their audiences and students. bergenPAC's Performing Arts School is the areas' leading cultural and arts educational institution in Northern New Jersey, which shall guide and liberate the imagination of our youth and expand the lives of our adults.




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