Chris Carrabba, front man for Dashboard Confessional. Source: Vagrant.com

Acoustic emo-band Dashboard Confessional will play at Georgia Southern University tomorrow night as the last stop of their college campus tour.

The band will arrive at GSU’s band shell at the Recreation Activities Center on Friday, May 1, 2009 where doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m.

The show at Georgia Southern will be the last event that Dashboard will play on their handful of Universities’ they have performed nationwide; also the last major event to end the spring 2009 semester at GSU.

“We wanted to give our students and the community a fun way to end the school year and start their summer,” said Sriravong Sriratanakoul, Student Activities Coordinator. “This free show is a terrific way for students to have a great time with friends as they wrap up classes and exams. For our graduating seniors, this will be one more great memory of Georgia Southern they can take with them.”

Shows based at Universities for this small tour around the country may be a reason for the success of the band being pushed to mainstream level by the student fans and other young people.

“I have always loved Dashboard,” said Mary Ramirez, 23-year-old English Major at GSU. “They’ve been around since I was in high school and I’m really excited to see that they are playing during my last semester’s here at Georgia Southern.”

Dashboard Confessional, who has been around since the early 2000s, began to cultivate an increasing fan base from Florida listeners.

The roots of the band began with Chris Carrabba, from Boca Raton, Florida since the age of 16, who started to get musically involved with bands such as Vacant Andy’s, The Agency, then lead to a band more prominent in underground music, Further Seems Forever.

After playing in these bands for several years, Carrabba wanted to pursue a solo-side project, which ultimately led to the creation of Dashboard Confessional.

The band, which derived its name from a song lyric from Further Seems Forever, took off with Carrabba’s first EP The Drowning, released in 2001.

Eight years and 6 albums later, Dashboard Confessional has an increasing nation-wide fan base. The band members include bassist Scott Schoenbeck, John Lefler guitarist, and Mike Marsh on drums.

Shari Blackburn