Ann Arbor Show, help!!!

The Ark handled “distribution” of tickets in a very haphazzard manner. First, they said tickets were on sale of Saturday Jan. 8th. Then, without notice they changed the sale date to Jan. 15. I’ve seen Lucinda everytime she’s played the Detroit area since the early 1990s and have never had this kind of trouble. I suggest she deal with people more reliable with the Ark and the favoratism they show to Ann Arbor “townies.” I doubt they are serious fans. It’s really a black mark agianst Lucinda and her management to be dealing with these A2 yuppies.

@mrm717 wrote:

BTW, the show was supposedlly sold out in 20 minutes. The had a Tickekmaster ppresale for Lucinda fan club members which I couldn’t find anywhere online. I’m signed up to this website and check it often, but didn’t know a fan club existed.

There currently IS NOT an official Lucinda fan club, so I don’t know to what club they were referring…

Sorry you had problems getting tickets. And, welcome to the forum…

Tom

There was nothing haphazard about how the Ark handled the tickets, they did it the same way they’ve been doing it for years. Tickets for Ark shows usually go on sale Saturday at 10:00 AM on ticketmaster. If that’s the case, you can buy the tickets starting at 9:00 in person at the Michigan Union ticket office (all of us townie Ark supporters know that). The tickets never made it to ticketmaster as they sold out long before 10:00. On a typical non-sellout show, some of the remaining tickets are distributed the following Monday to the Ark box office and Herb David Guitars, you can buy them in person at either of those locations with no service charge. The Ark only holds 400 people. I walked over there Friday to purchase tickets for a different show, they told me that the password presale on ticketmaster was allocated 200 for Lucinda including ALL of the reserved seats, and those went quick.

Oh, there are other things we know about the Ark as well, including what time to line up for GA based on a number of factors and where those 2 really good seats are that the first 100 through the door will walk right by.

With all due respect, I really don’t think the “townies” were favored in any way. We did a full week presale that was posted in this forum on Jan. 7th under the Presales topic. In hindsight I wish we had posted it as a separate topic, and we will make sure we do that in the future. But in addition to this website, I decided to treat Lucinda’s Facebook fanpage as a pseudo fanclub, as we don’t have a real fan club yet and all of the info -including how to buy tickets directly from the venue as well as the presale password – was posted there a week before the tickets went on sale to the public. The info was also posted on the Ark website.
I am sorry you feel as if it wasn’t fair, but i’m not sure what else we could have done. If you would like please send me a private message here or email me at tom_overby@yahoo.com and I will put your name on a list in the event that we have a few tickets to release from our hold backs. I can’t guarantee it but there is a reasonably good chance that we will have a small number of tickets to release. In the meantime I apologize for the confusion with this on sale -these are the first pre-sales we have done and we hope to be a little smoother with how we communicate the info in the future.
Sincerely-Tom

For those looking for Ann Arbor tickets, if cost is not an issue, here are 2 reserved seats on row C, for “only” $425…

Tom

Wow! That makes the $57.25 I paid quite a bargain.

I’m betting Lucinda will come back through later this year with a full band and probably play the Michigan Theater which seems to be where she has played most of her Detroit area shows recently. I’ve seen her at the Majestic Theater, the inaugural year of Arts, Beats and Eats on top of the Phoenix Center in Pontiac, at Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac (the show was moved from the Phoenix Center), opening for Neil Young at DTE, and the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor a couple of times (one time was a just weeks after I was stranded in NOLA during a vacation when Kartina hit). That year was especially poignant since Hurricane Rita had just hit Lake Charles. I wish artists would follow Neko Case’s lead and refuse to play venues that have any association with Live Nation associated venues. Artists used to have more of a social consciousness.