(ARLINGTON, TX) - Elizabeth Blum, an eighteen-year-old country music singer from Fort Worth who is enjoying nationwide acclaim as a rising country music sensation, will be performing with Metropolitan Classical Ballet on September 4th at 8:00 PM at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, when the company presents Paul Mejia's Cowgirls Live Forever. The fun filled and energetic ballet is a revival of a work originally performed with live music by the Dixie Chicks in 1994 under the title All the Right Women. The Johnnie High Band will provide the music. Members are Kevin Bailey, bandleader, Brent Dacus, Milo Deering, Gerald Jones and Ron Jones.

Local audiences enjoy Ms. Blum's weekly performance on the Johnnie High Country Music Revue in Arlington, voted the # 1 Country Music Show in America. Elizabeth recently celebrated her five-year anniversary with the Johnnie High Show.

Winner of Radio Disney's Talent Search, Elizabeth has performed at many venues across America. This July, she was featured for the third year at Colorado Summerfest performing a one-hour high-energy country music concert in Estes Park. She currently resides in New York where she is a student at New York University. At NYU, she has been designated as a Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar and studies music in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

In addition to Cowgirls Live Forever, there are two other works on the program: Pas de Quatra, a famous ballet of historical significance, which premiered in London on July 12, 1845, at a command performance for Queen Victoria when four of the greatest ballerinas of the nineteenth century, Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito and Lucile Grahn, appeared together creating a great moment in the beautiful era of Romantic Ballet; and Casanova Fantasy, a work about one of history's great lovers, Casanova, which was created by choreographer Michail Lavrovsky for Alexander Vetrov (Metropolitan Classical Ballet's artistic director), when he [Vetrov] was the lead male principal dancer with the Bolshoi. It premiered on June 1993, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow,

Ron Spigelman, music director for the Metropolitan Classical Ballet, will conduct the Texas Chamber Orchestra for both Casanova and Pas de Quatra.

Programming and casting for all productions is subject to change without notice.

Tickets are affordably priced at $30, $20 and $10 and are available at Metropolitan Classical Ballet's administration office located at 500 West Abram in Arlington, or by calling (817) 465-4644, or through Bass Performance Hall Ticket Office at (817) 212-4280, toll free at (877) 212-4280, or on the web at basshall.com. Group, senior and student discounts are offered.

Season sponsors include The Arlington Star Telegram, American Airlines, WRR Classical 101, and the law firm of Hill Gilstrap.

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Media Note: Further information or a photo of Elizabeth Blum may be obtained by contacting Judy Puder at (817) 465-4644.

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