Counting Crows, Live, Collective Soul To Make Tour Stop At Blair County Ballpark
Published on May 18, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Altoona Curve News Release
ALTOONA- Counting Crows, the San Francisco-based band that has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, will headline the "Rock 'N Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour" stop at Blair County Ballpark on Tuesday, August 21. LIVE and Collective Soul will also perform as part of a summer concert tour that will travel to 23 minor league ballparks.
The Rock 'N Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour is being produced by Jam Productions and is separate from the 2007 Curve Concert Series, which will kick off with the Gin Blossoms concert at Blair County Ballpark on Sunday, June 10th. Tickets for the Gin Blossoms concert are currently on sale starting at $16 through the Curve Ticket Office and on-line at www.altoonacurve.com.
Tickets for the August 21 Counting Crows/LIVE/Collective Soul concert will go sale in June through the Blair County Ballpark Ticket Office, all TicketMaster outlets and on-line at www.altoonacurve.com. All seating will be general admission and adult tickets are $49.50. Childred under 12 will be admitted for free!
"We're very excited to announce that Blair County Ballpark will play host to one of the stops on this multi-city tour of Minor League Baseball ballparks," said Curve General Manager Todd Parnell. "With our June 10th Gin Blossoms concert as part of the Curve Concert Series and this seperately-produced show involving three internationally-known bands, we are continuing to establish Blair County Ballpark as the premier outdoor concert venue in Central Pennsylvania."
Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut album August And Everything After and the hit single "Mr. Jones." Subsequent albums include Recovering the Satellites (1996), which included the hit song "A Long December"; Across A Wire: Live in NY (1998); This Desert Life (1999) and Hard Candy (2002), which featured the band's Top 10 cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". In 2004 the band released their first ever "Best Of" set Films About Ghosts, which featured songs from every phase of Counting Crow's recording career, followed by the live album *New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003, which appeared in 2006 and was greeted with universal awe and acclaim (This is Adam again. Okay, I admit I added the end of that last sentence. It just sounded better that way).
The band's most recent successes include a # 1 hit with the song "Accidentally In Love," the opening theme for the movie Shrek 2, which aside from selling over a million records, garnered nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award (none of which we won, which still pisses me off-sorry, Adam again). Counting Crows has sold over 20 million records worldwide (I didn't write that but it's cool, huh?).
LIVE, a band that came of age in the early nineties, one of rock's most creative periods, remains intact. The same four guys who debuted at the middle school talent show in York, PA and saw the release of their debut album Mental Jewelry and their breakout follow up Throwing Copper, are still together making music 20 years later. LIVE has sold over 20 million CDs worldwide and has had numerous singles reach the Billboard charts including such hits as "Selling the Drama," "I Alone," "Lightning Crashes," "Lakini's Juice" "The Dolphin's Cry" and "Heaven."
Formed in the early 1990's, Collective Soul has enjoyed major popularity as a successful rock band for over a decade. Since the release of their first album Hints Allegations & Things Left Unsaid in 1994, Collective Soul has sold over 10 million CDs worldwide and has had 19 singles reach the Billboard charts including such hits as "Shine," "Gel," "Better Now," "December," "The World I Know," "Heavy," "Why Part 2," "Where the River Flows," "Precious Declaration," and "Listen."
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