The Tragically Hip - Artpark , Lewiston, NY
Tuesday, 6/2/09 8:00PM
Thursday, 6/4/09 8:00PM
Friday, 6/5/09 8:00PM
Saturday, 6/6/09 8:00PM
And they are listing one more thing that I have no clue what it is:
Tragically Hip CD's - Artpark Mainstage Friday, 3/27/09 12:00PM EDT
Where did you get the info...God I hope you are right...Just don't know how many to see :jump
Forget it I just got word as well you are right...Now to talk my wife into a couple of shows... :roll:
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Tragically Hip to play four Artpark shows
By Jeff Miers
NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC
The Tragically Hip — Canada’s most popular rock band and a huge fan favorite in Western New York — will perform four shows in five days at Artpark this June, The Buffalo News has learned.
The band, which sold out two shows at the Lewiston venue last summer, will launch its tour there at 7 p. m. June 2 and continue with shows at 7 p. m. on June 4, 5 and 6, according to promoter Fun Time Presents. Fun Time’s Artie Kwitchoff and Donny Kutzbach will announce the concerts today.
Tickets for all four shows are $59.50 apiece and will go on sale at noon Friday through Tickets.com and the Artpark box office. All seats are reserved pavilion seating.
The tour is to promote the Hip’s 12th studio album, “We Are the Same,” to be released April 7.
The Tragically Hip performed its first area show within the relatively intimate confines of Nietzsche’s in Allentown back in 1989. The band, led by Gordon Downie, has been performing here ever since, in venues ranging from the Town Ballroom, to Darien Lake Performing Arts Center to HSBC Arena, building a sizable and incredibly loyal Buffalo audience in the process.
Since its formation in Kingston, Ont., where it cut its teeth in a manner similar to many Buffalo groups — covering the songs of famous acts in tiny bars and gradually sneaking in more and more of its own material — the Tragically Hip has grown into one of the most successful bands ever in Canada, selling out arenas from Vancouver to Toronto.
Buffalo has long mirrored Canada’s Hip-mania. And though the Hip has amassed a vast fan base here and in other border cities such as Detroit, in most other parts of the United States, it remains more of a cult act, routinely playing in midsize clubs.
“We in Buffalo know what Canada knows,” said Kutzbach. “This is one of the last great rock bands of our era. There is a definite artistic side to the band; they’re great musicians, and Gord Downie is a wonderful poet. But there’s also always that salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar aspect to what they do. It’s real, genuine rock ’n’ roll, and that’s something to value, because it’s so rare today.”
Quote:"It’s real, genuine rock ’n’ roll, and that’s something to value, because it’s so rare today.”
Nice. :thumb:
excellent !!!!! right in my backyard
be taking my daughter to this one
:thumb:
Awesome and my backyard is connected to yours :thumb:
I am there :jump
four shows here isnt a bad thing they shoulda played a venue like the ball room tho
nice. i heard about this in January. I'll be at one anyway!
at 59.50 i might be priced out.
yup , that's might steep in my economic climate right now
But it's unlikely that i will get to do a road trip to catch them this year either
Let me start by saying I am so totally stoked that they are playing 4 shows in my area. I live near Rochester and would much rather have seen a show at a venue like the Harro East Ballroom or a General Admission type place but I am excited for Artpark. However, I am very disappointed that the price is so damned high. I typically would have gone to both the Friday and Saturday shows but now I am quite sure I'll be lucky to talk my wife into being able to afford just the one show. Times are tough in this economy and I'm not sure if I were to really think about it hard that even I would think its a good idea financially to be dropping 120 plus on each show for my wife and I not to mention food and a place to stay so I don't need to drive back and forth between Rochester and there.
No lawns for any of the four nights? What is the capacity of the reserved seating at Artpark?
tkkarpen Wrote:No lawns for any of the four nights? What is the capacity of the reserved seating at Artpark?
2400
The lawn holds 2000
I really cannot see why the lawns won't be opened if there is demand. Eventually
Thanks, it makes it easy to meet up with a lot of friends with the lawns available, without them, there is no way everyone who wants to go will luck into tickets, especially since the demand for Saturday (the only day everyone is available). Oh well, I'll be going to Cleveland, and at least one artpark night.