Brooks Benefit Sells Out Nine Dates
Garth Brooks has sold out a record-breaking nine concerts at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena in one day, marking the first time that any performer ever sold that number of tickets in the state of Tennessee. Over 140,000 tickets were sold raising an incredible $3.5 million for Nashville flood victims. (Michael Jackson held the previous record of 72,000 in Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.)
Brooks will play nine full concerts in six days when he appears on Dec. 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22.
“A very special thanks to Ben Farrell, country radio, the great people at Ticketmaster and everyone who helped with the onsale…and most of all the people who showed up to get tickets. It’s great to be a part of the healing” said Brooks.
Brooks announced the concert on October 28th alongside Governor Phil Bredesen, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Bob Corker, Congressman Jim Cooper, Congressman Marsha Blackburn, Mayor Karl Dean and Ellen Lehman, President of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, with the hope of bringing renewed attention to the needs of the victims of the Tennessee floods.
Tickets were $25.00 (plus a $2.50 user fee and $5.00 service charge) with 100% of the proceeds going to the Community Foundation Tennessee Flood Relief.
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This is so generous of Mr. Brooks. I have wanted to see him in concert for many years and finally can afford to do so — make the long trip and afford the hotel accommodations. However, I tried for hours to obtain tickets. At one point it said the tickets wouldn’t go on sale until 11/9/10 10 a.m. and then, I checked last night at 2 a.m. and they were being sold then but ticketmaster.com was under routine maintenance. WOW! Nonetheless, I was not one of the lucky people to get two tickets, and I even had friends trying to help me using the computers, express ticketmaster phone service, and went to ticketmaster outlets as suggested on the website. It is rather unfortunate that the scalpers such as Stubhub, Coast to Coast, and others can get the tickets in groups of 8 and sell them at higher rates when Mr. Brooks is keeping the admission fee low enough for people forced by difficult economic pressures now getting lower income jobs to now be able to come to great concerts to help flood victims. Also, there are the radio stations who are getting bulk tickets as give aways. It is just so unfortunate. God help them. For those who were fortunate enough to get tickets, ENJOY! One question for the scalpers, does the extra money made on the inflated ticket prices get forwarded for the initial purpose: flood victims?