A friend emailed me about Tommy Emmanuel the guitarist coming to town for a conert Monday.
This guy is widely considered to be the greatest acoustic guitar virtuoso EVER,
he's got 10 albums to his credit......I saw him in Houston and it was one of
the greatest shows ever......
There are a lot of videos of him performing on youtube

When I saw him in Houston, I would guess there were 10,000 people there,
but I was sort of surprised that he's performing tomorrow night at the
Norman Public Schools Performing Arts Center.

Which brings me to my poll. I can't EVER remember since the major
renovation seeing a relevent jazz or acoustic or vocal act come to the Civic
Center for a concert. Before the renovation, I saw LOTS of them.....

There are hundreds of acts that could never fill the Ford Center or
even half of it, but could nicely fill two shows at the Civic Center and with
it's great acoustics, it would be a night to remember. Wednesday night,
Alison Krauss is playing the Ford Center, but they're blocking out half of it......
and it's pretty much sold out, but this lady's talent will be ruined by the
Ford Center's rotten acoustics, and she could have gotten the same
head count by playing a two night engagement at the Civic Center and everyone
would have seen a concert worth remembering......

So there you are..........is the Civic Center doing a good job at promoting
to mid range MUSICAL talent?

or not

and if not, who at the Civic Center or the city should be contacted to improve
matters. I for one think that after 77 million dollars of OUR tax dollars
were used to rebuild the joint, that we ought to be seeing some shows there
outside of Fiddler on the Roof once a year.......