cktimes.ca Archives: St. Clair College to Host Barenaked Ladies

Originally posted on: Tuesday, September 7, 2010


Windsor, Ontario - On Saturday, October 9th (Thanksgiving Weekend) at 7:00 pm, St. Clair College will be hosting one of Canada’s most successful and highly respected bands, Barenaked Ladies.

 

The concert will be held on the lawn at the South Campus location – 2000 Talbot Road West.

 

The event is a benefit concert, which will raise funds for state-of-the-art medical equipment to be utilized by students in the new St. Clair College Health Sciences Building which will open in 2011.

 

Best known for hit singles such as “One Week,” “The Old Apartment,” “Pinch Me”, “If I Had $1,000,000”, and “Brian Wilson”, and most recently for writing and performing the theme song for the hit TV series, “The Big Bang Theory” and “You Run Away”, from their latest album, “All in Good Time”.  Barenaked Ladies have had 6 top ten albums in Canada, and have sold over 10 million albums in the United States as well as 12.4 million albums in Canada. The band’s commercial success has been accompanied by industry accolades including 8 Juno Awards, 2 Billboard Awards, a World Music Award, 4 Much Music Awards, 17 Juno Nominations, 2 Grammy Nominations and an MTV Video Music Award nomination.

 

The Barenaked Ladies’ show will be the latest chapter in the college’s long history of hosting live outdoor music events featuring top Canadian acts.  Local recording artist Jody Raffoul will be the opening act for this memorable concert event.  This concert is sponsored in part by the       St. Clair College Alumni Association.

 

General Admission tickets are $ 35 and a total of 1,000 VIP tickets (in the sections closest to the stage) are $ 45. 

Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 14th at 10:00 am and may be purchased online at www.ChryslerTheatre.com or in person at the Chrysler Theatre box office.

 

Corporate tents and sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Ron Seguin, Vice President, Global Education and Training Services at (519) 972-2780 or by email, rseguin@stclaircollege.ca.

 

For more information on Barenaked Ladies, visit www.barenakedladies.com