Counting Crows sang about "Mr. Jones," received an Academy Award nomination and has a new album that is the No. 1 seller on iTunes. Now the band is making a stop on its international tour at Chicago's Riviera Theatre April 10 to play at the A&O Ball.
Counting Crows will perform with Wild Sweet Orange in a closed show for Northwestern students. Tickets for the show will go on sale Thursday, April 3 at 10:30 a.m. and cost $15. Each student can purchase two tickets with one WildCARD.
The A&O Ball has been bringing musical acts to NU students for about 30 years, but budgeting issues prevented its show from being held at the Riviera Theatre the last two years, A&O Productions Chairman Alex White said.
Having the show at the Riviera will give more students the opportunity to see a concert that may have been sold out more quickly in a campus venue, he said. The Riviera can hold up to 2,500 people.
"We're really thrilled for Counting Crows," White said. "They're famous for their high-energy live shows, and it's a band that's been around for many years. We've all grown up listening to them."
In a year of popular sold-out shows, including Girl Talk, B.J. Novak and Flight of the Conchords, Counting Crows will be the best-known act to perform for NU students since Kanye West in A&O's 2005 fall concert, White said.
Counting Crows has been a coveted act for the past several years and was A&O's first choice of bands for this year's ball, he said.
"(Counting Crows) are of a caliber that we're not normally able to afford," said McCormick junior Dave Lowe, a member of A&O's concert committee. "This year, the planets aligned so that we could make the financing and scheduling line up."
A&O has tried to bring Counting Crows to campus for several years, Lowe said. In 2005, then-A&O Chairman Peter Kahn told The Daily that Counting Crows placed first in a student survey on potential concert performers, but the group was too expensive for A&O's budget.
2008 Woodie Awards
The DAILY encourages you to share your thoughts on this story. Please help us keep the discussion lively, but civil. Comments that are abusive to others, off-topic or vulgar, or comments that misrepresent someone's identity, will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to delete any comments in violation or to close comment threads on articles.
Please e-mail online@dailynorthwestern.com to flag a comment or for more information.
Be the first to comment on this story