The City of Estevan hopes to see a strong push for tickets for the upcoming Alice Cooper concert on Aug. 26.
City manager Jeff Ward said ticket sales went very well initially for the concert, as well as for the John Mellencamp concert that will happen on Oct. 26. Both concerts will be happening at Affinity Place.
“Our management team, along with our promoters, were very happy with the initial pushes for both these ticket sales,” said Ward.
And while sales have tapered off since tickets went on sale for both concerts, the two shows are hovering at around 1,400 tickets sold each. Ward said it is really good for this point in their respective sales.
Ward hopes that as the event date approaches, and the city does more to advertise and create awareness, they will be able to get sell at least 600 to 1,000 more tickets for each show. That would allow the concerts to break even, and that would allow the city to bring more of these types of shows to Estevan.
Ward expected some type of a slowdown in ticket sales after the initial rush to purchase tickets for the shows.
“We do realize that Estevan is a very busy town, with some of the oilfield work and some of the farming, so people can’t always plan that far in advance, so we are expecting a push over the next month to get those ticket sales up,” said Ward.
And there is typically a last-minute rush to purchase tickets for events in Estevan.
