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Seriously stupendous news today, Philadelphia. This June, the Delaware River Waterfront will morph into Spruce Street Harbor Park, taking the perennial good times of summer on Penn’s Landing — outdoor concerts, movies, fireworks — to a whole new level.
From Friday, June 27 through Sunday, August 31, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation — the folks that brought us this past winter’s Waterfront Winterfest at the Blue Cross RiverRink — transforms the Penn’s Landing Marina at Columbus Boulevard and Spruce Street into a pop-up summertime village.
Penn’s Landing has long been an awesome hub of good times in the summer months, with annual programming like the PECO multicultural festival series, concerts at the RiverStage, Screenings Under the Stars and Smooth Jazz Summer Nights.
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When The Rolling Stones or Maroon 5 hit the road, their production crews have spent months practicing, making sure the lighting’s just right, the special effects are perfect, along with the staging, video, pyro and all the theatrics that wow the audience.
Bands used to start tours in smaller towns to work out the kinks on the road.
Today, anyone can take a video and post it online, so that first show has to be perfect.
The question is how to do it. And a couple of Lancaster County music business powerhouses have a solution.
Read more: http://readingeagle.com/article/20140114/BUSINESSWEEKLY/301149999#.UtW9L_RDsxI
Volunteers are needed in the following areas: Volunteer Management, Ballroom Set Up (reset & tear-down), Greeters, Light Maintenance (especially housekeeping), & Mail Preparation.
Contact Thom Oehme at 484-624-5187 or thomocc@yahoo.com if you would like to volunteer!
To learn more about Sunnybrook you can visit their website here: http://www.thesunnybrookballroom.net/
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Lancaster County Convention Center finances had a good month in November.
Reserve funds topped $5.6 million for the public meeting center. And center officials believe this month will also end well.
That means the 20 percent stake of the Lancaster County hotel room tax which has been diverted to the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority will once again be paid to the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau.
That money, which totals about $900,000 annually, has been going to the center authority since spring when the reserves required under the center’s bond indenture fell below $5.25 million.
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Reading’s two civic center venues are doing far better financially so far this season compared with the first five months of last season, but they still aren’t up to budget projections, the Berks County Convention Center Authority learned Thursday.
Several shows sold out, but attendance at others – among them Alan Jackson and American Idol – was lackluster, Zane Collings, general manager, told the board.
The civic center generally operates at a loss the first five months and did so again this year, he said. The loss was more than the budget projection, but far less than last year, he said.
It’s a work in progress for owner Kevin Rhude, who would like to turn the 100-year-old State Theatre of Boyertown into a theater of the arts.
At 61 N. Reading Ave., the theater shows three to four movies a week at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays in addition to a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturdays and Sundays.
But Rhude of Boyertown wants the theater to go beyond film and be a venue for arts of all kinds.
Rhude purchased the State Theatre in 2008. Having worked in real estate for more than 20 years, Rhude said he has an appreciation for old buildings and art.
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Berks County received more than $254 million in direct economic impact from the Sovereign Center and Sovereign Performing Arts Center since those facilities opened in 2001, according to an independent study released Wednesday.
The figure represents the total that the arena, the theater and their 4.5 million visitors spent in Berks, said Dr. Lolita A. Paff, a Penn State Berks associate professor of business and economics.
The Berks County Convention Center Authority, which runs the facilities, paid $2,500 for the study.
The authority hopes it will help with marketing, grants and sponsorship of the facilities, and solidify their importance in the community, said Zane Collings, general manger.
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Echoing their projections of two months ago, members of the Berks County Convention Center Authority said Thursday that the two venues likely will show an operating loss of $700,000 by the end of the season June 30.
They also voted to let the Jehovah’s Witnesses pay the rent for their upcoming summer conventions by replacing, for $29,000, an outdated processer in what the board acknowledged is the arena’s terrible sound system.
Board members said they are making plans to head off losses the next season.
“We can’t and won’t have a replication of that in the next year,” said Carl E. Herbein, board treasurer.
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A groundbreaking English progressive rock band that over the past 40 years has produced 13 gold and platinum albums and a half-dozen Top 40 hits will play at Sands Bethlehem Event Center in July, it was just announced.
Yes, which had the triple-platinum album “90125” and No. 1 song “Owner of a Lonely Heart” in 1983, will play at the event enter July 18, the venue has announced.
Tickets, at $49.50, $65 and $85, will go on sale at 10 a.m. April 20 at www. sandseventcenter.com or www.livenation.com, by calling 800-745-3000 or at the event center box office at the Shoppes at the Sands mall at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem.
The Sands Bethlehem Event Center will be serving up a meaty act that played Bethlehem’s Musikfest several years ago.
Meat Loaf — the theatrical rocker whose 1977 album “Bat Out of Hell” sold 14 million copies in the United States, making it the fifth-best-selling album of all time, and produced three Top 40 hits — will play the event center July 25, according to his website, http://www.meatloaf.net
The Sands has not announced the concert yet, and ticket information wasn’t immediately available.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-meat-loaf-sands-bethlehem-20120406,0,2262730.story
The Beach Boys’50th anniversary reunion tour, pop-punkers blink 182 and country megastar Alan Jackson lead a hefty lineup of acts that will play the new Sands Bethlehem Event Center in its first months.
They’re names that officials think will draw big enough crowds to help put the center in the Top 10 venues its size in the world.
Representatives from builders Vision Entertainment, the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem and promoter Live Nation announced the lineups at a news conference Friday, then offered media tours of the construction.
Incubus, one of the most popular alternative rock bands of the 2000s, will perform the arena’s first concert on May 16.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-sands-bethlehem-events-concerts-20120210,0,3724048.story
The Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem‘s newest addition is to open next May as a destination aiming to attract large-scale conventions, boxing matches, comedians and concerts with “Mariah Carey-level” acts that usual bypass the Lehigh Valley on tour at the big stadiums…
Read the rest of this article from the Morning Call here: http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-bethlehem-sands-casino-live-nation-20110906,0,1033622.story
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A new survey of great places to live if you are retired. Number 7 – Reading, PA! The one and only Pennsylvania location in a mostly Florida and Arizona list. Click on the link below to see all the winners!
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Bon Jovi will be embarking on a two year world tour starting with the opening of the new Meadowlands Football Stadium in North Jersey on May 26, 2010. There are 135 concerts in 30 countries scheduled!
I see 80’s mall hair making a come back, LOL!
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