{"id":8573,"date":"2014-05-01T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2014-04-30T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:43:09","slug":"surprise-its-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/01\/surprise-its-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! It&#8217;s Country Music!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Danville Harvest Jubilee has released their concert series for this summer. Wow. Didn&#8217;t see that one coming.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/entertainment_lifestyles\/entertainment\/country-performers-highlight-concert-series\/article_7429012c-d0b6-11e3-93ee-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">Country performers highlight concert series<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The grumbling has already started. Danville, you&#8217;re stuck with country music concerts. Let&#8217;s bring on a Big Board of observations and random thoughts to talk about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Carrington Pavilion holds about 4700 people at full capacity. A-List acts have little interest in playing at arenas that small and even if they did, their performance fees would make tickets cost more than your car payment.<\/li>\n<li>Want an example of that? Roanoke&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; Elmwood Park is having a Sheryl Crow concert and tickets are a quite reasonable $15. How did they get a low A-List act to play a 5000 seat amphitheater with only $15 tickets? Easy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnerforcouncil.com\/2014\/04\/11\/the-dollar-amount-for-roanokes-sponsorship-of-sheryl-crow\/\" target=\"_blank\">The City of Roanoke kicked in $50,000 of taxpayers money to make it happen<\/a>. That&#8217;s not going to happen with the Harvest Jubilee committee or the City of Danville. (Side note: Although I rarely cover things happening in Roanoke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnerforcouncil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valerie Garner is running for City Council<\/a> there and would be the perfect choice for Roanoke&#8217;s City Council. She knows her stuff and is deserving of your vote.)<\/li>\n<li>According to a survey that &#8220;you people&#8221; took a few years ago, you want country music and your second choice is country music. The detailed results of that survey were never made public, by the way.<\/li>\n<li>People grumble about the constant diet of country music concerts. You&#8217;ve got to face that they work because they haven&#8217;t had a bust yet and they probably won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever happened to the Harvest Jubilee? It was big in the 1980&#8217;s and it just stopped. I want to think it had something to do with tobacco sponsorship money drying up.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t find anything that tells me who&#8217;s on the &#8220;Harvest Jubilee Board&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that Big Board got random near the end, didn&#8217;t it? Anyway, face it. You&#8217;re getting low B-List country music acts because they&#8217;re cheap, they&#8217;re willing to play small arenas and Harvest Jubilee turns a profit. That&#8217;s the bottom line.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Danville Harvest Jubilee has released their concert series for this summer. Wow. 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