A concert promoter and Dixie College hammered out an agreement Friday to allow controversial rappers Cypress Hill to perform on campus as scheduled April 2.

The concert was in doubt earlier this week after college officials canceled Soularium Promotion's lease to the Burns Arena, even though the event had already been heavily promoted throughout the West and tickets issued.With St. George bracing for the annual spring-break frenzy, Dixie College officials worried there wouldn't be enough police available to provide security for a concert, especially one that features violent lyrics, and canceled the show.

Soularium, a Provo-based promoter, responded to the cancellation with a federal lawsuit alleging breach of contract and a violation of its free speech rights.

Filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, the lawsuit said Soularium stood to lose the $14,500 advance fee it had paid to Cypress Hill as well as the thousands it had spent promoting the concert in St. George, Cedar City, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.

The lawsuit also raised the First Amendment issue, saying, "Dixie College's cancellation of the concert is unconstitutional prior restraint and content-based restriction on Soularium's right to free speech and free association."

However, the two sides were singing a more harmonious tune by the end of the week.

"We have received a letter from the president of the college saying we can go ahead with the concert if we can provide 30 security officers," Soularium attorney George Adondakis said late Friday. "We will provide even more than that."

Adondakis said some of the details must still be worked out before the lawsuit is dropped, but he doesn't expect any insurmountable problems. "We're very pleased with the outcome," he said.

Assistant Utah Attorney General Dan Larsen, representing the state-owned St. George college, said an original contract with promoters did not include clauses for security measures, spurring the school to cancel the event.

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"The situation wasn't that we wanted to ban this band," Larsen said. "We just didn't have sufficient security from the college and the local police force. They are already stretched thin for spring break."

Adondakis agreed that the settlement of the lawsuit ultimately came down to the issue of security rather than free speech, but "it's my opinion that they (Dixie College officials) were worried about that particular band and the following of that band."

Cypress Hill has sold more than 6 million records in the U.S. since the release of its 1991 debut album. The group's song, "How I Could Just Kill a Man," led them to a booking on the 1992 Lollapallooza tour.

The California-based hip-hop and rap group has been banned from future appearances on "Saturday Night Live" for smoking marijuana during a live television performance of the song, "Insane In the Brain."

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