Despite the suffering economy, ticket sales for Syracuse University's annual Block Party concert are up this year. Tickets to see featured performers Ben Folds and Guster went on sale to the general public two weeks ago, and the response has been surprising. "We've already sold 500 tickets to people outside the student population," says Executive Advisor of SU Concert Board Kyra Zeller. "And this is without any type of promotion like newspapers or radio ads. That's an incredible number that we didn't expect."
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Tickets cost 25 dollars for people who aren't SU students. Zeller says the university has sold so many tickets this year for a number of reasons, one being that live music tends to be a recession proof industry. "People always want to be near famous people, and people love music,"she says. "These combine and make people willing to pay for concert tickets."Zeller also says the Concert Board typically books rap or hip hop artists for the annual concert, and this year's alternative rock performers had a bigger appeal to the Central New York community.
Block Party will be held in the Carrier Dome on April 26th.
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