Posts Tagged ‘Promoter’

The company responsible for holding a rave at the Los Angeles Coliseum that resulted in the death of a 15-year-old has sued the city for canceling an October concert featuring electronic music artist Tiësto.

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Bret Michaels has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a promoter who he claims not only failed to pay the full deposit on an Aug. 5 show but also canceled the gig without even telling the rocker.

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Angered over a rain-soaked cancellation, Christopher Langone, a self-proclaimed “lifelong fan” of the rock band Rush, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the band’s three members and Live Nation over a canceled July 7 concert at Chicago’s Charter One Pavilion.

According to Langone, the concert, which while held in an open air pavilion, was billed as a rain or shine event, meaning the band should have played despite the ever present rain storms in the area.  Full Story…

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A music promoter has admitted defrauding a New Jersey investor out of $330,000, claiming the money would be used to promote a series of Mariah Carey concerts in Dubai.

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Independent promoter Charlie Levy, owner of Phoenix-based Stateside Presents, doesn’t think artists should boycott Arizona because they’re unhappy with the state’s new immigration law. Instead, he thinks they’re missing an opportunity to speak out against the controversial legislation.

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It was little surprise that Rock Am Ring promoter Marek Lieberberg’s comment on the festival’s 25th anniversary was that “I loved it, I had an absolutely wonderful time,” as he spent much of the record-breaking weekend with fans.

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A promoter who left thousands of ticket holders high and dry for a 2008 Labor Day festival in Houston has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank and credit card fraud.

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Concert promoter Jack Orbin, founder and president of Stone City Attractions, this week criticized the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) consent decree allowing the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, stressing that the deal will severely damage the live entertainment industry.

In documents filed with the DOJ and written by attorney David Balto, a former Federal Trade Commission executive, on behalf of Orbin, the promoter said he believes that nothing in the merger will stem the rising tide of concert ticket prices; the average concert ticket price nearly tripled between 1996 and 2009.  Full Story…

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