Comments on: Leon County Debates Approaches To Managing Amphitheater Concerts

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 01:30:09 +0000

While the park was being renovated, I thought amphitheater events would be free. Silly me.

By: Joe Shiver

Joe Shiver — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:16:03 +0000

This city is gone to the dogs.

By: Gerri Seay

Gerri Seay — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:16:22 +0000

How is it right in ANY scenario where the promotors have no skin in the game??
How does this stuff ever get pushed through. He Could care less if the event is a success. Read the budget outlay again as he gets 5k a month PLUS a percentage of the cost of the show and Monies to pay his staff working the show. What BS.

I won’t even go into how he targets the audiences.

By: David

David — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:50:06 +0000

I can think of better things to do with taxpayers money – apparently someone doesn’t know how to run a “concert” business. Glad I’m not the one doing it!

By: Bryan Evans

Bryan Evans — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:37:33 +0000

In reply to Mark Daniel.

In my past I booked a lot of live acts ranging from 300-5000 capacity. Different venues for different acts back in the indie band days of late 80’s early 90’s. I totally agree with you Mark that $5,000 monthly to a promoter is ridiculous. That money could be spent in many much better ways.
If I were in charge of putting together this venue as a tourism magnet, like they say St. Augustine has become, I would leave the promotion to the promoter with a set venue minimum plus percentage, like everyone else. Take that $60,000 a year and use it to pay for event insurance.
I guarantee that an outdoor venue in the “sunny south” scares the hell out of any management company putting together a tour. I think covering event insurance would go a long way toward attracting more mid-major acts.

By: Mark Daniel

Mark Daniel — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:24:15 +0000

What’s the good of hosting concerts no one goes to? That is not the business of government. If necessary, put it to the voters to see if they want to keep shelling out $60,000 per event.

Put a price on renting it, and when someone wants to hold a stage play or a quartet, they can pay the posted rental, or the fee can be negotiated. In the planning of this debacle, it was intended to be for low key small events. I recall Shakespeare week being mentioned.

Dump the $5000/month concert promoter as a first step. That’s a real liability with no performance.

My grandpa knew what to call this: “Throwing good money after bad.”