Hi all. I am on an email list for the Hennepin Theatre Trust which manages the State Theatre, Orpheum Theatre and the Pantages in downtown Minneapolis. They sent an email this morning announcing the pre-sale with the secret code word: Sundown.
I was stuck in a meeting most of the day and unable to order my tickets until late afternoon. I ended up in Row T which is about 2/3 of the way back on the main floor. Not awful seats but not as close as they should have been prior to general sales. My suspicion is that the pre-sale tickets are spread throughout the theatre and are not all concentrated towards the front.
Oh well, I would guess this concert will sell out and I will be glad just be in the place. I actually like to sit in different places anyway and not always be up front.
RMD and RJ... We are in the third row of the Orchestra Pit in Cedar Rapids on June 30. Let's say hello !!
Minneapolis Story from the November 2000 Concert:
The Hard Rock Cafe is right next to the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis and is a possible gathering place if anyone wants to get together before the concert Sept 22.
In November 2000, I was with Jenney, Darin, Derek and a few others at the Hard Rock before the concert. Barry Keane and his wife were there with us and I'm trying to remember if someone else from the band was there with us as well. Check out Wayne's website for the dates and setlists.
FYI.... It was a Saturday night concert. We had wanted to visit Gord backstage after the concert but were told he probably was not going to stick around after the concert. Gord and Rick were going to leave Minneapolis first thing Sunday morning to attend the 25th anniversary service at Mariner's Church in Detroit Sunday morning. The rest of the band went to Duluth.
The group of us fans met up in Duluth at Grandma's Saloon before the sunday night concert at the DECC right off of Lake Superior !! I will never forget how powerful the Duluth concert was, especially after considering how Gord had just performed Saturday night in Minneapolis and had just flown in to Duluth from Detroit after the church service that morning !!
Just as the November gales would have it, I left the concert hall off of Duluth harbor in a rainstorm and when I got to the top of the hill heading south, we had a decent snowstorm. Drove back to the Twin Cities on windy, snowswept roads arriving home at 1:30 a.m. or so. What a weekend !!
Hope all of you planning multiple concert dates on consecutive days enjoy the times as much as I have.
John/Forest Lake, MN
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