Meeting Two

Last Monday, the Concerts committee did not hold a meeting because VTU was helping set up Lane Stadium for the concert.

Today's meeting was very interesting. The first topic of discussion was naturally the Concert for Virginia Tech. The group reached a consensus that the concert was a wonderful event as part of the healing process for Virginia Tech.

On top of that, David, the director of concerts (will be referred to as David from now on) brought up that this was a golden opportunity to present upcoming concerts to the student body. Many had a wonderful time, and it's fair to say this served as a point of entry into the arts at Virginia Tech for a large number of students.

The next show being hosted by VTU is The Roots. As an incentive, nine people on the staff who volunteer to work the concert will receive free tickets to the show. Along with that, whoever works the most hours before the show will get a free ticket.

Next, David introduced marketing tools for upcoming events. The group has set a goal of wanting to draw at least 2,000 people to The Roots' show. Committee members were encouraged to take the fact that a decent amount of the university is still excited about the concert that just happened and told to distribute fliers, alert friends that tickets were on sale, and use facebook to network these and other messages about upcoming shows.

While I do not know how effective these tactics will be, time will tell depending on the results the day of the show.

VTU's next event is:

THIS THURSDAY September 8th

Percussionist Jim Donovan of Rusted Root hosts "Rhythmic Motivation: Drumming Workshop for Everyone".

At 3 pm, 4 pm, and 5 pm, Donovan will host a drum workshop. No experience is needed at this event.

and at 7:30 pm, there will be a live performance & speech.

This event will take place in the Old Dominion Ball Room, 1st floor Squires Student Center. Admission is FREE to all segments of this event.