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Multiple Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Rob Thomas is set to perform at the South Okanagan Events Centre, in Penticton on August 31.

The upcoming tour celebrates Rob Thomas’ 3rd solo effort, The Great Unknown, which was released last year, the follow up to 2005’s platinum-certified No. 1 album “…Something To Be” and 2009’s “cradlesong”. 

Rob Thomas is one of modern music’s most compelling and commercially successful artists. For 20 years, he has been the front man and primary composer for Matchbox Twenty, leading the quintet to multiplatinum success over the course of four albums and a string of No. 1 hits that include “Push,” “3AM,” “Bent,” “If You’re Gone,” and “Unwell.”

Thomas made history with “…Something to Be” as being the first album by a male artist from a rock or pop group to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. With “cradlesong” he made history once again as the only male artist with multiple #1 hits at Adult Top 40, tying Pink with most #1s by a solo artist in the Billboard 200 chart’s history.

“Smooth”, Thomas’ collaboration with Santana was recently named the top all-time track on Billboard's Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart, the #2 Pop song of all time and the #1 song of the rock-era by Billboard.

Tickets to see Rob Thomas at the South Okanagan Events Centre go on sale Friday, May 27 at 10 a.m. and and can be purchased at the Valley First Box Office at the SOEC, by phone at 1.877.SOEC.TIX (763.2849) or online at ValleyFirstTIX.com.