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This year, the University of Maine’s Student Entertainment’s fall concert series presents Dashboard Confessional and Brand New at Alfond Arena. Tickets went on sale this week for the show on Dec. 4, and students are already showing a great deal of interest in this concert.
Because of the turnout expected for the concert, this year the Maine Center for the Arts will not be the venue for excited Dashboard fans. “The MCA doesn’t have a ‘college concert feel’ to it. Having the concert at the Alfond this year instead will be better for rock fans who can be in the seats and down on the floor,” said Vice President of Student Entertainment Derek Mitchell.
Since the concert is at the Alfond instead of the MCA, Student Entertainment’s traditional concert venue, the concert will cost more to produce. “The costs will even out because the more seats we have, the more tickets we can sell,” Mitchell said. There are roughly 4,900 seats available in the Alfond for this concert, while the Maine Center for the Arts seats only 1,600. Nearly all of the 950 seats on the floor have been sold in the first three days of ticket sales, according to Mitchell.
Mitchell said that Student Entertainment is bringing Dashboard Confessional to perform at UMaine by popular request. Due to the increase in the student activity fee this year, Student Entertainment’s budget has increased, which translates to bigger acts, like Dashboard. Last year, Student Entertainment brought Better Than Ezra, Lifehouse and Ben Folds to the MCA.
Tickets went on sale Monday and the venue is already filling up. Well over 500 tickets were sold on the first day the ticket booth was open.
“This is a huge concert for New England. The next venue for this concert after us is at Madison Square Garden. Even non-students are calling from Maine, Connecticut and New York for tickets to this concert,” Mitchell said.
The concert tickets are sold as general admission. Ticket costs are $15 for stadium seats, and $17 for the floor. “The floor just might sell out after this week,” Mitchell said.
Dashboard Confessional’s latest album is “Dusk and Summer,” released last June. Brand New will be performing songs from their new album titled “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me,” which hits stores on Nov. 21.
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