The members of New Edition.

The New Edition 30th Anniversary Reunion Tour has been rescheduled due to higher-than-expected ticket sales.

& The concert, originally scheduled for April 12 at the USC Aiken Convocation Center, has now been scheduled for May 1 at the James Brown Arena in Augusta.

& Tickets purchased for the April 12 show at the Convocation Center will be honored at the May 1 James Brown Arena event.

& Ticket prices are $29.50, $39.50, $49.50 and $61.50. Tickets are on sale now and are available online at www.georgialinatix.com, by phone at 1.877.4.AUGTIX and at the Champion's Box Office at the James Brown Arena.

& The R&B crooners who began as progenerators of the "boy band" movement include performers Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe and Ralph Tresvant will be performing all of their most famous songs such as "Candy Girl," "Can You Stand the Rain" and the chart-topping jams that launched their solo careers including "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown, "My My My" by Johnny Gill, "Sensitivity" by Ralph Tresvant and "Poison" by Bell, Bivins and DeVoe.

& The Jackson 5-inspired band produced hits which made them the forerunners of two generations of teen pop. As the band matured and progressed, they laid much of the groundwork for the fusion of hip-hop and R&B music known as "new jack swing". After New Edition drifted apart, all of the members succeeded significantly outside of the group as part of the new jack movement, which helped ensure that their original incarnation would be remembered for much more than the bubblegum urban soul which made them "New Edition".

& Starting up in North East during the 1980s, the boys were quickly discovered by writer/producer/impresario Maurice Starr, who signed the group to his small Streetwise label in hopes of launching a revamped Jackson 5 phenomenon for the '80s. The boys quickly became pop icons and as their fame grew, the boys grew into men and began singing with a harder-edged funk and produced more mature romantic ballads.&