Festival Season

02.19.2013 at 5:27 pm by chicagojacobs

With ticketing announcements for the 2013 music festival season in full swing, many music fans have been anxiously awaiting news about their favorite music festivals. Fortunately for fans, this week marked the reveal of the 2013 Firefly Festival concert lineup. This is the second annual Firefly Festival and the show hopes to follow in the footsteps of its wildly successful first year. The festival, which takes place at the Woodlands of the Dover International Speedway is scheduled to take place from June 21-23rd. The festival is slated to have acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Foster the People and More. Tickets and all day passes for the event will go on sale this month, but those who want to attend the festival live will want to act fast as it is expected to sell out.

While many are excited for the Firefly Music Festival lineup announcement, in terms of big live music announcements for the year, there is no bigger reveal than the 2013 Bonnaroo Music Festival. As one of the biggest music festivals in the industry today, the announcement had many excited for the upcoming concert event. As one of the country’s largest music festivals, fans can expect this to be a big concert event. The lineup of the 2013 festival was revealed over an hour long YouTube broadcast that was hosted by Weird Al Yankovic. The 2013 festival is scheduled to take place from June 13th-June 16th and will take place once again in Manchester, Tennessee. The 2013 Bonnaroo Festival acts include Mumford and Sons, R. Kelly, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakaers, Bjork, Wu Tang Clan, Daniel Tosh, The Lumineers, Kendrick Lamar, ZZ Top and more.

Those who are looking to get tickets to the event will find a number of different ticket and day pass options for the three day celebration of music and art. Tickets go on sale soon; will you be trying to get highly coveted passes for Bonnaroo?

Thanksgiving Week 2012

11.20.2012 at 10:28 pm by chicagojacobs

This week the city of New York will be treated to a unique opportunity to buy tickets to one of the biggest events to come to the Big Apple in Years.  Cirque Du Soleil Totem, the new live Cirque show is coming to New York City next spring and tickets to the event will start going on sale beginning on November 20th for members of the Cirque Club and to the general public on November 30th. Cirque du Soleli is the most popular live production of its type in today’s live performance world and the performance Totem has already been performed in front of 2 million audience members. Finally, after years of waiting, the live Cirque du Soleli production will finally be making its way to New York City. Those who want to get tickets to see the production while it is in New York City will want to act very quickly as these productions are known for being some of the fastest selling live performances on the planet.

This wasn’t the only big announcement to hit the Broadway this week. Hip hop fans were given a treat this week when it was revealed that Grammy winning performer; R. Kelly will be bringing his multi-part hit musical “Trapped in the Closet’ to the Broadway stage. The new ‘Hip Hopera’ is expected to have a 2013 release date and tickets will start going on sale after the New Year. The announcement came after R. Kelly announced he would be adding new chapters to his current chapters of the hit musical selection.

Kelly is not the only celebrity who will be making their way to the Broadway stage. Hit television and movie actress and notable celebrity Katie Holmes will be making her way to the Broadway stage this winter in what promises to be one of the hottest tickets this winter. The actress has garnered a great deal of attention since she announced that she would be hitting the Broadway stage in a live production of Dead Accountants. Holmes will be playing a major role in the production and has already garnered a great deal of praise for her role. The production will officially open next week on November 27th and tickets are on sale now. With many theater-goers anxious to see Katie Holmes is a new role live on the Broadway stage, those who want to see her live are encouraged to act quickly to see her performance live.