Category: Concerts

• December 13, 2010

  Styles of Management and Music

  Each show has its own problems and and opportunities. This Wilson Concert Series brought 3 different genres and 3 different types of management. Cartel began our Series with the easiest going people I have ever met. Their manager Chuck Salmon directed where instruments should go and an 2 hours until show time they proved their…
• December 3, 2010

  The Strength to Carry On

  I don’t consider myself someone who is necessarily strong. Sure I played soccer for 13 years so I have some leg power, but my arms are another story. There is a time where this weakness is put to the test: load in and out. This strength test happens before a concert when we load in…
• October 31, 2010

  Cash, Check or Flex only

  It’s 5am… do you know where you’re daughter or son is? If UPB is having a concert there is a good chance they are sleeping on the Warren patio. No joke, people take their concerts seriously here at JMU. Ticket sales occur once a semester maybe twice usually for Center Stage but this year things…
• September 26, 2010

  Everything Up to Lights Out

  Show day. There is nothing like it. The artist is on their way, the fans are preparing for the night and the volunteers are on their way to help. As I walk up to Wilson Hall, electric trucks and a bulldozer block me. I remove my sunglasses and walk into the auditorium to find the…
• September 18, 2010

  Planning, Producing and Promoting

  Everyone has there idea of a perfect concert. Whether it is in a club or amphitheater or you are sitting or standing the concert has the ability to take over the entire room. When the average concert attendee walks through the door they do not understand all the planning that went into making these moments…