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Spotlight: The 5th Annual Dia De Los Toadies Festival
Perennial music fan favorite the Toadies will headline the 5th annual Dia De Los Toadies music festival this Labor Day at Whitewater Amphitheater again this year. ThunderTix is proud to be the ticketing software of choice for The Dia and always thrilled to see the use of social media for event promotion, fan appreciation and to cultivate the shared experience, as Sonar Management has done annually. Big family reunion Every year on Labor Day weekend the Toadies host the Dia De Los Toadies music...
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Ballet’s Resurgence Through Social Media
With the success of the movie, The Black Swan, audiences are getting a glimpse at some of the hard truths about dance, and dancers–albeit disappointed about the depiction of the darker side of their art–are rejoicing that their profession has finally received some prime time play. This brings to mind the challenges that many art forms have in reaching the pedestrian masses. How do performers reach and excite an audience that knows little about their work? How do theaters welcome a...
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Recent Tragedies Highlight Importance of Crowd Safety
This past Sunday, a man fell 40 feet to his death during the Chicago Bears – Philadelphia Eagles football game. A week earlier, a toddler died after falling 30 feet during a Los Angeles Lakers match. And last week, at a Phnom Pehn water festival, nearly 400 died and several hundred were injured during a panicked stampede from a bridge. Tragedies like these remind us about the importance of crowd safety. Clearly Marked Exits are Vital to Crowd Safety Despite the best crowd management pol...
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Random Acts of Culture: perfect fit for viral social sharing
Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I can think of no time that presents a better opportunity to move people through the power of live performance. Knight Arts whose catchy slogan, “Witnessing the transformational power of the arts”, is behind “random acts of culture”, a movement to bring classical performance out of the music halls and theaters and to the people through their everyday business. On October 30, the Opera Company of Philadelphia surprised shoppers with a seemingly impro...
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