NEW YORK, NEW YORK—DECEMBER 13: Bruce Springsteen performs at the 7th Annual John Henry’s Friends … [+] Benefit held at Town Hall on December 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Al Pereir...
Tag: live entertainment
The Belly Up Tavern In Solana Beach, CA And The Return Of Small Venues
Donovan Frankenreiter and band onstage at The Belly Up in Solana Beach, CA on December 27, 2022 Eric Fuller In March 2020 I wrote about the last show I’d seen one week prior to the pandemic shut down....
Australian DJ Wax Motif’s 12 Days Of Christmas Start With Holy Ship Wrecked Music Festival
Wax Motif in performance Wax Motif So there’s always the option of shopping and caroling around this time of year. But rarely does the idea of flying into the Cancun airport and then riding 90 m...
After 2 Years Lost To Covid, San Diego’s Wonderfront Music Festival Returns November 18-20
Ernie Hahn at Pechanga Arena (formerly San Diego Sports Arena) Ernie Hahn Ernie Hahn, the founder of Hahn Entertainment and one of the significant players behind the scenes of the Wonderfront festival...
A Pop Duo On The Rise
Surfaces is and up and coming act filling 3,000 seat rooms on their own and presently touring in support of LANY. They are a fascinating story: two friends from a small Texas town go to YouTube to lea...
You Can’t Push On A String. Understanding The Truth About Supply, Entitlement And Dynamic Pricing Of Tickets
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 24: Billy Marra, 54, looks for a Rolling Stones concert ticket “The first … [+] time I saw them [The Rolling Stones] was in 1978. The tickets were 12 dollars an...
Life Is Beautiful Again In Las Vegas. Weekend Music Festival Is A Sensory Buffet
Gorillaz on the Downtown Stage of Life Is Beautiful The holy mountain/ Alive coverage The annual Life is Beautiful music festival returned to the streets east of downtown Las Vegas September 16th-18th...
Matoma Brings The Party At The EDM Turntable
ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images Electronic Dance Music comes in myriad forms, most mysterious to those who are not yet well exposed. The generic idea is that it is a repeating r...
Imagine Dragons Join Digital Seat Media To Crack The Code Of Audience Engagement.
QR codes on every seat at the Utah Jazz’ arena Digital Seat Media One of the hottest debates in ticketed entertainment is how to ascertain who is in the room. This is key both to retargeting att...
The Return Of StubHub
View of the company logo and office entrance for online ticket exchange company StubHub (Photo by … [+] Interim Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images StubHub will long be a business school case st...
Anytickets And The Rise Of The Tertiary Ticket Market
From left: Marcus Stern, Chris Bonner and Deric Margolis the shareholders of Anytickets. Lundy Barrey How is it that Anytickets, a company you’ve never heard of can project $200 million in annual tick...
Steve Earle Tours Jerry Jeff Walker
NEW YORK, NEW YORK—DECEMBER 13: Steve Earle performs at the 7th Annual John Henry’s Friends Benefit … [+] held at Town Hall on December 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Al Pereira/Gett...
Dave Wakeman Talks Tickets
Mick Jagger performs on stage during a Rolling Stones concert. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG … [+] via Getty Images) Corbis/VCG via Getty Images It is time again to visit with my friend Da...
Grupo Firme Is Selling Out Stadiums. How Did That Happen?
Grupo Firme Grupo Firme Live entertainment is a fickle business. No one ever knows what will catch the attention of the public. Every year around the globe there are millions of songs written, and ten...
Surf Mesa Is Riding High
Surf Mesa Surf Mesa Creativity is a gift. It’s easy to recognize. There is just an ease in which the essence of an artist is revealed by the way they act, talk or display their talent. Surf Mesa is a ...
Coachella Returns With A Vengeance
Coachella lights up the night with its signature color palette Eric Fuller Coachella, the long dominant festival which opened the season each year has been involuntarily dormant for three years, since...
It’s Beach Weather And Music Festivals Are Back On The Sand
Hangout Festival 2020 lineup Hangout Festival When the weather turns friendly and the sun warms the sky, it’s time for music festivals to play on the beach. There are several across the country from B...
As Baseball Attendance Fades Concerts Step Up To Fill Stadiums
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs on stage in concert (Photo by Martin Philbey/Redferns) Redferns It has long been the highest aspirational goal for touring acts to graduate to a stadium tour...
Bandsintown’s Technology Builds Community Between Artists And Fans
Bandsintown Bandsintown Fabrice Sergent is a serial entrepreneur. He heads Bandsintown and a team of 65 people working with a simple concept which is diabolically complicated to provide. Bands is the ...
Dan Croll And Luke Sital-Singh. Two British Songwriters Move To Los Angeles, Sing About California And Please The Crowd
Luke Sital-Singh Andrew Paynter It seems like the setup for a joke. Two unrelated ex-pats from the UK move to Los Angeles. Both are singer-songwriters. One writes happier songs, the other tends toward...
Stage Front Tickets Is Building A Global Platform Focused On Technology, Relationships And Innovation
Karl Roes, CEO and founder of Stage Front Tickets . Karl Roes, CEO and founder of Maryland based Stage Front Tickets has been focused on creating a suite of software tools, a pool of skilled employees...
Adam Young’s Digital Marketing Tools Drive Event Tickets Center’s $100 Million+ Annual Sales
Adam Young, CEO of Event Tickets Center . What can one man build by learning how to combine an emotion driven irrational market with increasingly sophisticated digital marketing? Adam Young brought hi...