Platinum-selling pop-rockers Hootie & the Blowfish will spend Dec. 4-10 playing

to U.S. troops in the Middle East and Eastern Europe on a United Service Organization

tour. The South Carolina-based group will entertain troops in Bahrain (Dec. 4), Dubai

(Dec. 5), Saudi Arabia (Dec. 6), Bosnia (Dec. 9) and Hungary (Dec. 10). Hootie & the

Blowfish played a USO tour in 1996.