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| Kiera Zitelman Concerts Director seeconcerts@umd.edu |
As the leaves fall and Thanksgiving nears, you might be
asking, “Gosh, when are we going to hear about SEE’s fall concert?” The answer
is: not this semester.
Here’s what happened behind the scenes: we ran a survey of
several artists we thought the campus might like. You all told us who you
wanted and we pursued those musicians. We had a first, runner-up, and back-up
option. This is what happens for every SEE event. It’s why we’re always
bothering you to fill out our surveys – we really do want to know what you
think! Some of our best event ideas come from student suggestions we hadn’t
thought of on our own. (Sadly, though, we do not have the budget for any member
of the Knowles-Carter family, so don’t ask.) We always research what students
want and let that be the deciding factor in our choices. Initially, all these
artists were available and within our budget, which comes from your student
activities fees. But circumstances change very frequently in the music
industry, and for those musicians we did go after with serious offers to play at Ritchie Coliseum this fall, schedules changed abruptly. Certain artists were no
longer available when we thought they were. So we made the decision to delay the
concert to the spring semester.
This isn’t the first time this has happened in SEE’s long
history, and it won’t be the last. The good news is that it doesn’t mean we’re
not having a concert besides Art Attack XXX at the end of the spring semester.
It just means the concert will be in the first half of the spring semester, and
then you will have Art Attack XXX to prepare for (besides all the other movies,
lectures, special events, performing arts, musical arts events, and comedy
shows we bring) – to summarize, the SEE team and myself I
are going to give you an awesome spring semester. Get ready.
To get a link to our upcoming concerts survey for spring
concert and Art Attack XXX, like Student Entertainment Events on Facebook, follow
@SEE_UMD on Twitter, send an email to seecommunicationsys@umd.edu to
get on our list serv, or check out our website, www.see.umd.edu.
And email me at seeconcerts@umd.edu
with your ideas and feedback anytime!
