IT'S SPRINGTIME! Hooray! This horrible season of ice and snow is overwith finally; now we can finally look forward to white shoes, the spring floods, and tornado season.
TRACK MEET TIME! Well, it's the first week of April, and that means it's time for the Johnny Mathis Invitational Track Meet held at Mathis' beautiful alma mater, San Francisco State University on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7. This year, the Golden Gators have a beautiful new track and stadium, which I witnessed being built when I was in San Francisco last July. It's finished now and it's beautiful, just like the rest of the campus! Here's a picture.It's a great facility for any fan of track and field. Go on out and support the Lydums and their teams!
MATHIS ON THE RADIO: BBC Radio 2 station continues its broadcast of a half-hour long, 6-week duration program simply called Johnny Mathis which airs every Friday starting March 9th. It's a radio biography featuring comments by Mathis' brother Ralph and sister Elizabeth Mathis-Douds, singers Dionne Warwick and Deniece Williams, producer Thom Bell, George Avakian, Pat Boone, and more! Here's a link to a description of the show. The broadcast can be easily picked up on Real Audio/Real Player...click "Listen" on the BBC page referenced above, and you can hear it on the pop-up player. If you don't want to use their pop-up player, type the following into the Location bar of your RealPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/fmg2.rpm. I'm not finding this archived as of yet, however I do see links to past shows. Maybe someday they'll include this one, too.
MATHIS IN CONCERT: Tickets are still on sale for the shows in Fort La-Dee-Dah next week (April 13 and 14). Click here for more information. Fort Lauderdale is a city adjacent to Miami; it'd be a suburb if it weren't almost as big and in another county! I may make fun of the city's name, but the venue Mathis is playing at, The Broward Center for the Performing Arts, is an absolutely gorgeous piece of architecture. Beautiful venues make the Mathis concerts all the more magical, don't they?
The late shows at Caesar's Atlantic City are on sale now. At $60, it's a fairly hefty price. The shows are set for April 27 and 28th.
I believe tickets are on sale now for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra shows on Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12. Looks like they're not selling online, though. Some folks insist on doing things the old-fashioned way! I would call 1-800-699-3168 and ask about tickets to that show. Here's an online ad for the show. The BPO has a cool lady conductor, and I'll bet they'll make Mathis sound fantastic!
Tickets are on sale NOW for the Nashville Symphony concert in Antioch (June 14). There is an 8-ticket limit with strict enforcement, which is good, as 8 should certainly be plenty for anyone!
Tickets are on sale for the shows at the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno, Nevada. Prices are $50, $44, and $30; call (800) 687-8733 for details or use the online form.
The Westbury Music Fair has added two NEW dates for the summer: July 20th & 21st. Tickets are on sale NOW online via Ticketmaster for these new dates.
Tickets for the North Shore Music Theatre concert in Wednesday, August 15 and Thursday, August 16 in Beverly, MA are on sale online NOW!
Tickets for the concert in Saratoga, California (a suburb of San Jose) on August 30th go on sale to the public on April 13th. There is a ticket limit and prices are from $60-$100.
Don't know yet if tickets can be bought now for the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut (don't ask where that is) on October 5th and 6th.
Sorry, still no Canadian or other foreign dates that I can see. I think I'd find some way to let Mathis know you guys want to hear him sing, too.
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