SoundCorps, Riverbend team for local acts
Riverbend Festival and SoundCorps have partnered to come up with a new application process for local artists interested in performing at the summer festival. Bands with a physical address within 50 miles of Chattanooga may apply to perform at the 2018 Riverbend Festival by visiting www.SoundCorps. org/Riverbend. To complete the application, artists must have a band profile (free to build) on the SoundCorps directory at www.Sound Corps.org/Directory.
Applications are open until midnight on Dec. 31, 2017.
Riverbend offers between 20 and 30 slots on its lineup for local bands most years, and it’s a chance for these artists to play a big festival and put a nice item on their resume. It’s also a chance for fans to see a good bit of local talent in one place.
“Riverbend is proud to have played a major role in the renaissance of Chattanooga’s riverfront over the last three and a half decades,” said Friends of the Festival Executive Director Chip Baker.
“We are now experiencing a similar type of renaissance in Chattanooga’s music scene, and are excited to work alongside SoundCorps to keep the momentum going.”
SoundCorps Executive Director Stratton Tingle said, “SoundCorps is thrilled to see major community players like Riverbend Festival utilizing our online music industry directory to book great homegrown talent. We built the directory to help the Chattanooga community more easily connect with excellent local music providers and this partnership greatly expands our reach throughout the region.”
If you enjoyed the Levitt AMP concert series this past summer, it’s time to vote so that it will come back next year. To recap, the Levitt Foundation picks 25 cities to host 10 shows each year. To be selected, a city, town or community has to show that several groups or organizations are working together on the project and the citizens there have to go online to vote for their community. To do so, go here: https://grant. levittamp.org/voter-registration-page/.
The Garth Brooks World Tour is North America’s largest-selling tour ever, and it keeps adding to its incredible numbers with more than 6.3 million tickets sold to date. It’s so popular a sixth date has been added to the Nashville run next month at Bridgestone Arena. The new date is Dec. 22 and tickets go on sale today, Nov. 16, at 10 a.m. CST, which means that it will be sold out by 10:01 a.m. CST.
In case you are interested, you can purchase them at ticketmaster.com/garth brooks or via phone at 1-866448-7849 or 1-800-745-3000.