UMBowl 2010

We are psyched to announce the inaugural UMBowl!

UMBowl 2010 will be a unique interactive Umphrey's McGee experience. This 4 hour extravaganza will be unlike any other Umphrey's event to date – the UMBowl will be a show for the ages!

The evening will be broken up into four quarters of music, each with a different interactive theme. The 1st quarter will kick off with an acoustic set chosen entirely by attendees. Well in advance of the show, each ticket buyer will receive a ballot to vote for which songs UM will give the acoustic treatment – and that's just the beginning. Further juicy details for the remaining quarters will be revealed shortly. Attendees will have unprecedented opportunities to showcase their musical coaching skills and truly get in the game. In addition to ticketing and travel packages, UMBowl will feature tailgating options, a halftime show, limited edition merch, and loads of other sweetness to make this a night to remember. For now, save the date:

Stadium
Lincoln Hall
2424 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

Gameday
Saturday April 24, 2010
Doors 7:00 pm, Show 8:00 pm

via umbowl.com

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Live Nation Entertainment reportedly inks ticketing deal with Wal-Mart | TicketNews

Live Nation Entertainment reportedly inks ticketing deal with Wal-Mart

Fri, Feb 12th 2010 4:31 pm EST

By Alfred Branch Jr.

Looking to expand its reach, newly minted Live Nation Entertainment has reportedly signed a partnership deal with discount department store giant Wal-Mart, that will allow Live Nation to sell tickets from select outlets.

Details of the deal were not readily available, but according to Billboard, the partnership will launch sometime in the next few months at about 500 Wal-Mart stores, including outlets in Los Angeles and Chicago. The focus will reportedly be on concert and sports tickets in and around the cities where stores are located.

Exactly how the tickets will be sold is unknown, whether by a sales clerk or a kiosk, but the Live Nation location will be in the store's entertainment section, according to Billboard.

The partnership comes just three weeks after Live Nation and Ticketmaster received approval for their merger from the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to the creation of Live Nation Entertainment.

As a condition of the approval, the company has to, in effect, prop up two competitors, Comcast-Spectacor and AEG, through the sale of assets to the pair.

The Wal-Mart deal was announced by Live Nation Executive Chairman Irving Azoff during a panel discussion earlier today at a technology summit at the NBA All-Star weekend in Dallas.

A spokesperson for Live Nation did not return a message seeking comment.

In late 2008, as Live Nation was gearing up to create its own ticketing operation, the company signed a multi-year deal with the DVD/video store chain Blockbuster to sell tickets from about 500 locations throughout the U.S.

However, soon after signing the deal, Blockbuster started having financial troubles, and the Live Nation deal essentially languished. At the time, Live Nation was looking to establish retail outlets around the country to complement its popular Web site, LiveNation.com.

Months later, the company announced its intention to merge with Ticketmaster.

via ticketnews.com

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