FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 27, 2010
Contact: Heather Shea
(978) 937-8688 x229
hshea@lowellauditorium.com
Sara Evans Celebrates the Season Tour
Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Saturday, December 11th - 8:00pm
- Tickets are on sale Monday at 10am -
Lowell, MA - This holiday season share an engaging evening with country star Sara Evans and her Celebrates the Season tour at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $39.75 and $49.75 and go on sale Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:00am. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium box office located at 50 East Merrimack Street in Lowell, by calling the box office at (978) 454-2299 or online at www.lowellauditorium.com. Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more people. To purchase tickets for your group, please contact the Group Sales Department at (978) 937-8688 x225 or groups@lowellauditorium.com.
For the Celebrates the Season tour, Sara will ring in the holidays and give concertgoers everything they’ve come to love about her, with one set of music focused on songs of the season while a second set will spotlight some of her biggest hits. Last year, Sara released the four song digital Christmas EP, I’ll Be Home for Christmas.
Sara Evans has been honored with numerous accolades, among them the 2006 Academy of Country Music’s Female Vocalist of the Year and the Country Music Association’s Video of the Year for “Born to Fly.” She has been named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” and won the hearts of television viewers as the first-ever country star to compete in ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. She enjoys a prolific recording career with over 5 million records sold and four chart topping number one country singles including the self penned “Born to Fly,” “No Place That Far,” “Suds in the Bucket” and “A Real Fine Place to Start.”
Publicity materials (photos, biographies, press releases, etc) are available for download at www.lowellauditorium.com. Click on the “Venue Information” link located towards the top of the homepage and then click on “Marketing Materials.” If you are prompted for a username and password, enter “vendor1” for both. Please contact Heather Shea at (978) 937-8688 x229 if you have any questions about accessing the materials.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Last Comic Standing
Last Comic Standing continues on NBC. My pick so far is Jonathan Thymius or Rachel Feinstein. Been watching? If not, catch up on www.lastcomicstanding.com. Here's the highlight real for Jonathan Thymius http://www.nbc.com/last-comic-standing/video/off-beat-on-target/1236369/ Check it out.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Casinos and local performing arts venues
Over the last few months, I have been involved with a number of my fellow performing arts center collegues in addressing the concerns the performing arts center community has with the casino legislation that is being considered on Beacon Hill.
Our small group of performing arts center professionals has had countless meetings with members of the house and senate to express our concerns that the performing arts centers in Massachusetts will lose the opportunity to promote certain acts and touring shows if resort casinos are allowed to present live entertainment as well.
Here's what has happened in many other states... Resort casinos come into a state. Entertainment venues are built within the casinos. Because casinos have so many more revenue streams than a performing arts center (via gaming, their own restaurants, etc), they are able and willing to pay much more to performers to perform at these casinos venues.
In exchange for writing "the big check," they are given exclusive rights to that performer or show within a radius (usually around 90 miles) for an extended period of time (usually 6 months). This "radius clause," as its called in the entertainment business, robs the local performing arts centers of the opportunity to present these acts in their local venues.
If performing arts centers aren't able to secure shows to present on their stages, the performing arts centers suffer greatly in terms of the amount and quality of their programming. As a result, lower attendances at these venues hurt not only the performing arts centers, but also area restaurants, businesses and municipalities.
I'm happy to say that many members of the senate and house took our concerns very seriously and at this point we are hopeful that there will be some language in any casino legislation that is passed, that will allow local performing arts centers to continue to be vibrant entertainment and economic engines across the state.
The process of meeting with members of the house and senate has been very eye opening. I've learned a heck of a lot about the real way that legislation works its way through the halls of the state house. I've also been happy to learn that our legislators understand the value that venues like Lowell Auditorium, and other performing arts centers in throughout the commonwealth, have in our communities.
Our small group of performing arts center professionals has had countless meetings with members of the house and senate to express our concerns that the performing arts centers in Massachusetts will lose the opportunity to promote certain acts and touring shows if resort casinos are allowed to present live entertainment as well.
Here's what has happened in many other states... Resort casinos come into a state. Entertainment venues are built within the casinos. Because casinos have so many more revenue streams than a performing arts center (via gaming, their own restaurants, etc), they are able and willing to pay much more to performers to perform at these casinos venues.
In exchange for writing "the big check," they are given exclusive rights to that performer or show within a radius (usually around 90 miles) for an extended period of time (usually 6 months). This "radius clause," as its called in the entertainment business, robs the local performing arts centers of the opportunity to present these acts in their local venues.
If performing arts centers aren't able to secure shows to present on their stages, the performing arts centers suffer greatly in terms of the amount and quality of their programming. As a result, lower attendances at these venues hurt not only the performing arts centers, but also area restaurants, businesses and municipalities.
I'm happy to say that many members of the senate and house took our concerns very seriously and at this point we are hopeful that there will be some language in any casino legislation that is passed, that will allow local performing arts centers to continue to be vibrant entertainment and economic engines across the state.
The process of meeting with members of the house and senate has been very eye opening. I've learned a heck of a lot about the real way that legislation works its way through the halls of the state house. I've also been happy to learn that our legislators understand the value that venues like Lowell Auditorium, and other performing arts centers in throughout the commonwealth, have in our communities.
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