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As of this morning, all but 120 of the 4,000 available tickets had been sold for today’s Counting Crows concert at Kirby Sports Center.
They may be purchased for $25 at the College Store until 4 p.m. To contact the store, call 610-330-5513. Tickets will be sold for $28 at the door.
Parking will be prohibited on Pierce Street from Hamilton Street to Coleman Street on both sides of the street. In addition, no parking will be allowed on the West side of Hamilton Street.
For those attending the concert, the entrance and the ticket booth will be at the gate on Hamilton Street between Pfenning Alumni Center and the Kirby Sports Center.
The entire Lafayette Activities Forum executive committee is making preparations for the show throughout the day. Most of the stage crew will be Lafayette students as well.
The doors will open at 7 p.m. Rock band Sixpence None the Richer, known for its hit “Kiss Me,” will open the concert at 8 p.m. The group recently released a CD, Divine Discontent, five years after its prior album. Its cover of the Crowded House song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” is on the soundtrack to the TV show “Smallville.”
Counting Crows members are Ben Mize, Matt Malley, Charles Gillingham, David Immergluck, Adam Duritz, Dan Vickrey, and David Bryson. The band formed in 1989 when singer Duritz and guitarist Bryson got together in San Francisco and began performing acoustic music in local coffeehouses. The band’s name comes from an old English rhyme.
The group’s 2002 album, Hard Candy, debuted at No. 5 on Billboard in July and was certified Gold in October that year. It received a review of three stars from Rolling Stone magazine, which stated, “This is a supremely confident, fastidiously arranged, masterfully played record with a slightly prefabricated feel.”