KABB news at 9, doing a story on san antonio's lack of an outdoor music venue

[tony78201]

Originally Posted by lemonfresh

Hence redeveloping/transforming it into a larger venue. 5,000-7,000 is enough for medium-big tours, if a tour needed a bigger spot, they could easily go to the at&t center. Also, many may not know this, but UTSA and NISD are partnering in a 10,000 seat arena to be built at UTSA's main campus off 1604.

medium tours yes, but lets say for example if a tour like Ozzfest were to start back up, I can not see Ozzfest at sunken gardens. or Warped Tour.

[lemonfresh]

Well, the Warped Tour is coming to the at&t center in July.

The Ozzfest I would assume had they not just chosen one Texas date in Dallas could have easily booked the at&t center as well.

What SA needs is a venue for small and medium sixed tours/bands. If that place can also fit big tours too, cool. But right now we need a small-medium size venue.

[The Man in SATX]

Originally Posted by tony78201

anyone know the size of that place in corpus called concrete street ampitheater? I've seen package tours come right through us/skip us, and play there in corpus.

It says it can hold 2000 standing..

[Bo]

The gist of the story on KABB was that many of the bands that play the large venues in the state as part of a multi-act tour are now better able to be booked into San Antonio's smaller venues, thanks to the lack of competition from Verizon. Before, the local promoters avoided booking any acts on the same night as shows at Verizon.

[Herbrocks]

I never liked Verizon as a venue, but I will miss it. There really is no good place to have larger, esp multi stage shows, and we will miss many tours.

I think the best thing about the VWA was the low prices on the lawn seating, sometimes as low a $5-20. I hated driving out there though, and even worse driving back.

[940]

Originally Posted by lemonfresh

Also, many may not know this, but UTSA and NISD are partnering with each other to build a 10,000 seat arena, to be built at UTSA's main campus off 1604.

Is NISD doing this partnership because they will have 10 high schools by next year and they need another venue for school events and graduations?

[seanattwood]

I think that the management of San Antonio should strongly consider funneling stimulus money and raising other capitol to scale Sunken Gardens to maximum capacity so that 1000's more can attend events there. It is inside the loop, which will draw more folks to the downtown area and be a big win for tourism, and the promotion of cultural preservation of our city.