Win Tickets to Chris Hillman

Chatham Patch and the Sanctuary Concert Series have teamed up to offer two pairs of free tickets to see singer Chris Hillman, a folk and country musician whose band had a single reach No. 1 when he was 21 years old.

Hillman got his first guitar from his mother while still a child, but soon afterwards he became more interested in the mandolin. Throughout the early 1960s he was in several bands, and in 1964 he was invited to become part of a new band, The Byrds. Their first single, a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tamborine Man," reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1965.

Along with Gram Parsons, another Byrds alumnus, Hillman formed the Flying Burrito Brothers in the 1970s, and in the 1980s formed the Desert Rose Band with Herb Pederson and garnered awards and chart-topping songs and albums with in that endeavor.

Hillman will be playing at the Sanctuary Concert Series at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 30 at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township. Tickets are $25, but Chatham Patch has a pair of tickets to offer to the first two (2) people who can correctly answer this question:

Chris Hillman has multiple Grammy, BMI million-play, and Americana Music Association awards, and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame. But he is also proud of the awards he has won for his writing. Name one of Chris’ award-winning books.

Think you know the answer? Email Chatham Patch editor Laura Silvius at Laura.Silvius@patch.com. The first two people to respond with the correct answer will win a pair of tickets to see Chris Hillman!