AEG Live, out of the promotion company's Seattle office, announced the concert Monday. It will be officially announced by the University of Montana on Tuesday.
Tickets, at $59 and $79 (plus a $2 fee), are scheduled to go on sale Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The wristband strategy is out, having been an utter disaster for Missoula's upcoming Elton John concert. The Adams Center will have 800 tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The other three ticket outlets - Worden's Market, Southgate Mall and the Source in the University Center - will share 750 tickets.
Those 1,550 tickets are guaranteed to be sold at the venues, said Marlene Hendrickson, adviser for UM Productions, which is producing the concert.
The remainder will be sold on the Internet, at www.griztix.com, also from noon to 1:30 p.m.
If any tickets remain after 1:30 p.m., it's “business as usual,” said Hendrickson. Tickets at that time will be sold at the ticket outlets, on the Internet and by phone at 243-4851 - all drawn from the remaining pool.
Only 4,360 will be available, as there will be no seating to the rear or to the sides of the stage. Leave your checkbook at home; checks are not accepted.
Gale Price, the former student director of UM Productions and now an employee of AEG Live, said Taylor is also scheduled to play in Billings the previous evening.
Taylor will bring his full band, Price said. There is no opening act; the concert is billed as “An Evening With James Taylor.”
Taylor, 59, whose smooth, reassuring voice and sugar-coated, folksy melodies have sold him more than 40 million albums, is best known for hits like “You've Got a Friend,” “Handyman,” “Mexico,” “Your Smiling Face” and “Shower the People.”
He continues to tour and record today. His most recent solo album was 2002's “October Road,” his 19th. This year, he also released “One Man Band,” a collaboration with Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell.
Reporter Jamie Kelly can be reached at 523-5254 or at jkelly@missoulian.com
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