Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Free? Did someone say free? It's hard to believe that anything on the concert circuit is free these days, especially when tickets for shows like U2's Pop Mart and Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour are selling for as much as $60 and $70. But "free" was the word heard all weekend, as students around campus grabbed friends to hop on the T and head to downtown Boston for MIX Fest '97, the two day outdoor extravaganza organized by local radio station MIX 98.5 (WBMX...
...fifth annual event took place Saturday and Sunday at Boston's City Hall plaza, featuring local bands and more than 10 superstar national performers like Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, 10,000 Maniacs, Duncan Sheik, Third Eye Blind, Sister Hazel, The Monkees and Bare Naked Ladies. The concert extravaganza is the primary promotional event each year for MIX and Assistant Program and Music Director for the station Michelle Engel said that the event is the "largest radio sponsored concert in Boston, and the largest free radio concert in the country." What is even more impressive is that the artists (with...
Engel described the festival as a gift from the radio station to the city of Boston. The concert is designed in the hopes of bringing friends and family together over the long weekend. In addition to the musical performances, there was also a children's area, an arts and crafts area and lots of food vendors. Because of the price tag attached to the festival, MIX solicits presenting and participating sponsors. This year's two presenting sponsors were Wal-Mart and Christy's. The many participating sponsors included Boston television's Channel 7, whose arts staff was on hand...
...full religiopolitical embrace years ago, but he may have found a successor in Adam Yauch, 33, singer for the punk-rap group the Beastie Boys. Not only has Yauch guided his famously irreverent band into songs like Bodhisattva Oath; he is also primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting, and Yauch, a convert, made sure spiritual seekers could find low-key "monastery tents" on the concert grounds...
...speakers, in support of political justice and inner peace. If the world of Tibeto-Buddhist chic can be said to have a red-hot center, it inhabits the small restaurant in Manhattan's East Village where Yauch and his Milarepa fund are celebrating the release of the Tibetan Freedom Concert's CD. Opinion makers in knapsacks and nose rings schmooze; a large portrait of the Dalai Lama beams...