A May 1 benefit concert featuring county music legend George Jones was announced at a hastily called press conference Monday morning on Greensburg’s Main Street.
Orchestrated by a newly founded community group, Spirit of Greensburg Committee, the event is the first of what is planned to be an annual effort to raise money to aid the cause of various, under-funded projects in the recovering community. Proceeds of this year’s concert are intended to help the rebuilding of the town’s Twilight Theatre, one of dozens of Main Street buildings destroyed in the May 2007 tornado. Once finished, the theatre will double as the auditorium of the new $50 million school in Greensburg, scheduled to open its doors next August.
Landon Laubhan of Record 8 Entertainment, the primary promoter of the event, told the small crowd huddled at the corner of the property already purchased as the site of the new theatre, advance tickets will be $23 each, $25 at the door. Phone purchase of tickets will later be made available, Laubhan saying distribution would also be handled by “outlets throughout this region.”
Scheduled to be held on the grassy runways of Greensburg’s municipal airport on the east edge of town, Jones’s appearance on stage is set for 9 p.m., with three bands to precede him. Gates for the event will open 5 p.m. that day. Laubhan said a 9 X 12 foot video screen would also be part of the presentation to afford a secondary view to those in attendance. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs; beverages (water, beer and pop) will be sold on the premises. Updates of the event’s unfolding can be found on www.greensburggrows.com
Asked about contingency plans in case of inclement weather, Laubhan said the plan is to stage the event unless bad weather turns severe. In case of soggy conditions, he said the stage would be moved from a runway to a asphalt section on the northwest corner of the airstrip. Asked if there would be a rain check if the event were washed out, Laubhan indicated there wouldn’t, then said he was uncertain as to whether the event would be rescheduled.
Spirit of Greensburg President Scott Reinecke told The Signal that while the plan had been to make a formal announcement at a later date when more details were firmly in place, organizers of the concert decided late last week to stage the Monday press conference when “wild rumors” of what the event did and didn’t entail had begun circulating amongst the public. “We decided to call this (press conference) to put those to rest and get this straightened out,” Reinecke said.
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A May 1 benefit concert featuring county music legend George Jones was announced at a hastily called press conference Monday morning on Greensburg’s Main Street.
Orchestrated by a newly founded community group, Spirit of Greensburg Committee, the event is the first of what is planned to be an annual effort to raise money to aid the cause of various, under-funded projects in the recovering community. Proceeds of this year’s concert are intended to help the rebuilding of the town’s Twilight Theatre, one of dozens of Main Street buildings destroyed in the May 2007 tornado. Once finished, the theatre will double as the auditorium of the new $50 million school in Greensburg, scheduled to open its doors next August.
Landon Laubhan of Record 8 Entertainment, the primary promoter of the event, told the small crowd huddled at the corner of the property already purchased as the site of the new theatre, advance tickets will be $23 each, $25 at the door. Phone purchase of tickets will later be made available, Laubhan saying distribution would also be handled by “outlets throughout this region.”
Scheduled to be held on the grassy runways of Greensburg’s municipal airport on the east edge of town, Jones’s appearance on stage is set for 9 p.m., with three bands to precede him. Gates for the event will open 5 p.m. that day. Laubhan said a 9 X 12 foot video screen would also be part of the presentation to afford a secondary view to those in attendance. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs; beverages (water, beer and pop) will be sold on the premises. Updates of the event’s unfolding can be found on www.greensburggrows.com
Asked about contingency plans in case of inclement weather, Laubhan said the plan is to stage the event unless bad weather turns severe. In case of soggy conditions, he said the stage would be moved from a runway to a asphalt section on the northwest corner of the airstrip. Asked if there would be a rain check if the event were washed out, Laubhan indicated there wouldn’t, then said he was uncertain as to whether the event would be rescheduled.
Spirit of Greensburg President Scott Reinecke told The Signal that while the plan had been to make a formal announcement at a later date when more details were firmly in place, organizers of the concert decided late last week to stage the Monday press conference when “wild rumors” of what the event did and didn’t entail had begun circulating amongst the public. “We decided to call this (press conference) to put those to rest and get this straightened out,” Reinecke said.
