Date: Fri 09-Apr-1999

Publication: Bee

Author: SHANNO

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USE FOR REFERENCE MATERIAL CONCERNING THE IVES CENTER

Contacts:

(Frances A.) Arnold Daley, Ives Center executive director, 837-9226

Nick Kilsby at Emmanuel Kerr Kilsby (publicists), 203/406-8800 x28

Alexandra Paley (PR for Ives, also at Emmanuel Kerr), 203/406-8800 x25

Michael Osborne, chairman of Ives Center (Newtown resident)

The Ives Center Fact Sheet

Location: Western Connecticut State University westside campus, Danbury.

(Take Exit 4 off I-84 West or Exit 2 off I-84 East onto Mill Plain Road/Route

6; turn onto University Boulevard [opposite Super Stop & Shop])

Site: 39 acres with amphitheater: 1,500 seat auditorium, 4,000 seat capacity

on lawn, with "Jumbo StageScreen"; Food, beverage and refreshment concessions;

Ives Center Gift Shop;

On-site parking plus 7 satellite car parks with shuttle bus connection

Concerts: Most weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day

Ticket prices (for major concerts): $35-45 (reserved); $20 lawn seating

(children $5).

Tickets: through Ives Center box office, 837-9226 (also subscriptions),

TicketMaster and Danbury Fair Mall Ticket Booth.

General: Inaugurated 1984 for Charles Ives (1874-1954) as a not-for-profit

company serving the community as a performing arts center and open space.

Major Concerts: 211 concerts (since 1984), with 325 featured performers,

atttended by 400,000 people: POP/ROCK: Blood, Sweat & Tears; Donna Summer;

Kenny Loggins; Tom Jones; Traffic; Creedence Clearwater Revisited; FOLK: Harry

Belafonte; Peter, Paul & Mary; Judy Collins; Tom Rush; Don McLean; Al Stewart;

BLUES/R&B: Ray Charles; Four Tops; Temptations; The Coasters; The Marvelettes;

Buddy Guy; COUNTRY: Tammy Wynette; Hank Williams, Jr., Willie Nelson; Clint

Black; Diamond Rio; JAZZ/SWING: Gerry Mulligan; George Benson; Dave Brubeck;

Wynton Marsalis; Grover Washington, Jr.; Marian McPartland; Woody

Herman/Margaret Whiting; BROADWAY: "Showboat"; "Beatlemania"; Barbara Cook;

CLASSICAL: Ives Symphony with Skitch Henderson;Marion Anderson; Leonard

Bernstein; Philip Zawisza; Nanci Griffith; "The Mikado: HMS Pinafore"; Jessye

Norman; Isaac Stern.

Information: The Charles Ives Center, PO Box 2957, Danbury, CT 06813

Telephone 837-9226

FAX 837-9230

Web site: http://www.ivescenter.com