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Bryan Adams and Def Leppard tour coming to Eastlake Ballpark August 6

March 7, 2005 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Eastlake, OH) – The Lake County Captains and Jam Productions of Chicago have announced that internationally-renowned recording artists Bryan Adams and Def Leppard will perform in concert at Eastlake Ballpark on Saturday, August 6th. The concert is one of 26 minor league ballparks on Jam's "Rock ‘N Roll Double-Header Tour."

Tickets for the concert go on sale Saturday, March 19th at 12:00 p.m. The show marks the first-ever music concert at Eastlake Ballpark, the home stadium of the Captains.

"We are pleased to be bringing this show to Eastlake," said Captains General Manager Casey Stump. "Much time and effort was put forth to make this a reality. This concert and the other events we have planned will bring more people to Eastlake, many for the first time."

Def Leppard and Bryan Adams have sold more than 100 Million albums worldwide. Each made their album debut in 1980--and both artists have released a new CD in 2005.

Only the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen and Def Leppard can claim U.S. sales in excess of 10 Million copies of two original albums. Def Leppard's blockbuster Pyromania hit #2 on the U.S. charts and went 10-times-platinum. Hysteria soared even higher, reaching #1 and going 13-times-platinum. This coming May, the British band will release Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection, the band's biggest-ever "best of" album and the first two-CD set in the group's remarkable career.

Bryan Adams' meteoric rise on the charts began with his 3rd album, Cuts Like A Knife that landed in the Top 10 and was soon followed by the No. 1 charted Reckless! In addition to his albums, Adams film credits include (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, which topped the U.S. charts for 7 weeks and became the longest running #1 single in the history of the British charts. His other #1s include Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?, Heaven and All For Love. The Grammy-Award winning artist has been nominated for 3 Oscars and 3 Golden Globe Awards for music. He has received 18 Juno Awards (Grammy equivalent in Canada), an American Music Award, Five ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for Most Performed Song from a Motion Picture. This spring will see the release of Adams' most recent CD, Room Service, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard European Top 100 Album Chart.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 19th from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. at the Eastlake Ballpark box office. After March, 19th, concert tickets will be available during normal box office hours. Tickets are priced at $47 (including service fees). All seats are general admission. The Captains will be handling in-person sales only. Phone and internet orders will be available through Ticketmaster, (216) 241-5555. Children age 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. Gates will open at 5:00 p.m. for Captains season ticket holders and suite holders. All other fans will be admitted beginning at 5:30 p.m. Showtime is 6:30 p.m. There is no baseball game on the day of the show.

For information on the show, fans may call the Captains box office at (440) 954-WINS.

Chicago-based Jam Productions is a three-time winner of Pollstar Magazine's award for Independent Promoter of the Year. Jam is the largest volume independent concert promoter in the country and was the producer of last year's Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson tour of minor league ballparks—honored by Pollstar as the year's Most Creative Tour Package.

Eastlake Ballpark is located at the intersection of Vine Street and Ohio 91 (SOM Center Road) in Eastlake, Ohio. In addition to 70 Lake County Captains home games, the stadium will also host a high school baseball triple-header on May 13th, an OHSAA Division I baseball regional on May 27th and 28th, and five Cleveland State University baseball games during the season.

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