Tops in Blue tours USAFE in August, September

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SEMBACH AB, Germany --  Tops In Blue, the Air Force's premier entertainment group, will perform at USAFE installations across Europe from August through October 2008. 

Tops In Blue is scheduled to appear at the following locations/dates: 

2 August - RAF Lakenheath, U.K.
5 August - RAF Fairford, U.K. 
7 August - RAF Croughton, U.K. 
8 August - RAF Alconbury, U.K. 
2 September - Moron AB, Spain
9 September - Marshall Center, Garmsich, Germany 
12 September - SHAPE, Belgium 
14 September - Geilenkirchen, Germany/Brunssumm, Netherlands 
17 September - Volkel AB, Netherlands
19 September - Spangdahlem AB, Germany
20 September - Buechel AB, Germany
23 September - Incirlik AB, Turkey
26 September - Ramstein AB, Germany
28 & 29 September - Aviano AB, Italy
2 October - Lajes AB, Portugal

Tops In Blue, is an all-active duty U.S. Air Force special unit made up of talented amateur performers selected for their entertainment abilities. Each year, thousands compete in base talent contests and the most talented move on to higher levels of competition. The result is an elite group composed of 35 of the most talented vocalists, musicians, and dancers anywhere.

Known as the Air Forces' Expeditionary Entertainers; the group's main mission is to perform for military personnel and their families throughout the world. The enormous popularity of the group has also made them America's goodwill ambassadors around the globe. 

Since its first world tour in 1953, the group has also performed on film, produced albums, and appeared on national television with such legends as Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Alabama, Barbara Mandrell, BOYZ II MEN, and many others. They performed the entire halftime shows for the 1981 Garden State Bowl and Super Bowl XIX. They have performed for heads of state and dignitaries throughout the world.

They have toured throughout Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Far East, Middle East, Central America, Canada, and all 50 of the United States. Countries such as Taiwan, Bulgaria, Iceland, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Vietnam, and Cuba have all experienced the entertainment of Tops In Blue.

Since 1996, their mission led them through hostile locations to build morale for our nation's joint military services supporting Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia-Herzegovina and contingency bases in Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Turkey. In 2002, Tops in Blue continued their expeditionary mission by being among the first entertainment groups to travel into the most forward location in Afghanistan, Uzebikstan, Pakistan, Qatar, and Kyrgyzstan.

For more information about Tops In Blue, visit the team's website at www.airforcetopsinblue.com