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Hollywood-based band Maroon5 is scheduled to perform this Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Maine Center for the Arts. The opening acts will be Gavin DeGraw and Michael Tolcher. This concert is sponsored by Student Entertainment.
Maroon5’s song, “Harder to Breathe,” off their debut album, Songs About Jane, is rising on the Billboard charts, currently standing at number 18 after 11 weeks. Last week the song was at 22. Beyond Billboard recognition, they are also receiving massive praise from critics and the music industry as a whole.
“You know when you find a band before anyone else does, and then a few months later everyone is screaming their name? It makes you feel superior, smarter,” recording artist Michelle Branch said in Spin magazine. “For me, that band is Maroon5, the record is Songs About Jane, the song is ‘She Will Be Loved.’ And all I can really say is, ‘I told you so.’”
This will be their first concert in Maine. Kate Trinward, Vice President of Student Entertainment, said that two of the reasons they are being brought here are their unique sound and their potential.
“They don’t really fit a genre,” Trinward said. “It’s a new band, they have a lot of growth potential.”
Roughly 1,000 tickets have already been sold and Student Entertainment is hoping to sell out completely.
Tickets are on sale now in the Union and the MCA box office. They cost $8 for UMaine students and $16 for non-students.
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