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fuckyeahalisonkrauss:

Apparently I’ve been a little restless lately, so I tweaked some of the pages a bit as well as the sidebar. The biggest new thing is the events & appearances page because I got mad at alisonkrauss.com for not keeping us updated enough and…

I live ten minutes from the town she grew up in and have been waiting all my life for her to do a show here as a result… then when it finally happens the tickets are sold out instantly at the low, low price of 250$. are you kidding me?

Are you talking about the benefit show in Champaign? The most expensive tickets at that show were $100. Though I’m sure some were resold for around $250.

The most expensive tickets on last summer’s tour proper (not counting the benefit shows like the one in Champaign) were like $80. And now, one summer later, the most expensive price announced is $95. Oh, and no fanclub discounts so far. Coupled with the fact that the best AKUS tickets often get allocated through backroom deals to people who have ~connections… I’m currently not a happy fangirl.

yes ma’am. forgive me, I meant the ones after they were sold out were 250. I checked the site approx. 20 min after they went up, and womp. nothing.

Kathy Mattea came here a year back, did a free (or extremely cheap, I don’t remember) show that filled the whole research park (~1000 people, I’d guess). It was awesome. Why can’t AKUS do the same thing?!

(of course, when I point this out, my parents brag about how they saw her play fiddle in the park when she was 17 and I disown them from my life out of mad jealousy)

20 minutes? Gosh.

I really, really do not understand why they can’t do something like that. I guess maybe the point with the Champaign show was to raise money for a charity, but beyond that, would it kill them to do a series of cheap shows - general admission, let the hardcore fans queue up for hours beforehand, and let all the people who’ve followed them for decades but can’t afford to shell out $95 see them again for old times’ sake?

I guess most of their fanbase nowadays consists of upper-class old people - the “easy listening” crowd that picks up her CDs from Starbucks - and her tour planners figure selling out fancy theatres to hundreds of those kind of people is the way to go. Never mind if the longtime fans get shoved to the back.

Oh my god your parents. I hate people who got to see her when she was young and obscure and used to mingle with the audience after the show and all that. >_<