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Help us get the Avett Brothers to schedule a show in Nashville TN on August 22nd, 2010!
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 14:04
By now most of our friends have received our "Save The Date' cards along with a personalized "Avett Brothers Postcard" in the mail...
Most of them know about our love for the AVETT BROTHERS...And now that we are getting married, WE WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE of the Avett Brothers LIVE with our friends and family!
If you are not part of the wedding but would still like to see the Avett Brothers play in Nashville on AUGUST 22nd, 2010 please make yourself heard by tweeting them (http://twitter.com/theavettbros) or posting on their Facebook Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/theavettbrothers) or commenting on discussion boards (http://www.theavettbrothers.com/forum). Please link back to our page (http://www.projectwedding.com/ourwedding/jimandlena/our-story-2) if you would like to support our efforts. THANK YOU EVERYONE!
From the first time we sat together, and Jim shared this new band he had been listening to (since sharing music has been a huge part of our relationship from the very beginning) we sat in a small room in South Dakota listening to "if it's the beaches"...Lena hovered over her little computer to read these words that made so much sense...and they made sense in the context of Jim and US...
Throughout the next 3 years, as the Avett Brothers were evolving as a band, so was our relationship...we would meet in some city to listen to the newest avett brothers album together, and we would plan our travels to see each other around upcoming Avett Brothers shows... we, just like so many other people around the world, experienced some of our most memorable moments always accompanied by a new avett brothers song, making sense of the situation, hearing them scream out the thoughts we were thinking...they always know how to express the things we have always Known...
Our initial plan was to try and get THE Avett Brothers to play a private show at our wedding, but we soon realized this was too long of a shot...So since we would still love to share the experience of an Avett brothers show with everyone, we want to try and see if they would be willing to schedule a show in Nashville on August 22nd, 2010.
This band means a lot to us and seeing that their music and words have accompanied us throughout our whole relationship, it would be the perfect beginning to our new journey together...it would be wonderful to finally share this music with all of our friends and family there...
So, if you can get behind this, we would love your support in trying to make this happen. Please visit our website here:
http://www.projectwedding.com/ourwedding/jimandlena/our-story-2
and tell the Avett Brothers why they should care and arrange their very busy schedule around one show in Nashville for a couple of very dedicated fans!
THANK YOU!
- Jim and Lena
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Good luck with this but take my (well-intentioned) word for it when I say that there are many many people on this board who have wonderful stories like yours who would love to have the Avetts plan a concert around them as well. I have no doubt that the guys would love to make all their fans' fantasies come true (well, some of the fantasies, that is...), but the constrictions of reality make that impossible.
Having said that, I do extend my sincerest wishes for luck in making this happen. As a person in a relationship where the Avetts have played a very central figure, I would happily live vicariously through you if you are able to reach your goal. And regardless, congratulations on your upcoming wedding!!
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In all honesty, (and I join heids in the good intentions,) you actually probably might have better luck trying to find the cash to hire them to play the private show. I forget what people were saying the current booking fee is, but maybe yall could win the lottery, or have a rich uncle or could get the guests to all chip into that as a wedding gift instead of stuff, if you don't need the stuff, or would rather have them play then go on a sweet honeymoon, or live in an apartment for a while instead of buying a house or something.
but, who knows, fortune favors the bold. good luck in it all!
also, heids, "well, some of the fantasies, that is..." haha!!! good point!
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Well....since Nashville has had a show since Greensboro has (and some would say STOLE Greensboro's big show last year), Imma decline.
Here's an idea......move your wedding to G'boro and I'm with ya.
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You took the words right out of my mouth.
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Kind of funny. I remember my boyfriend and I saying 6 years ago, "when we get married, we will hire the Avett Brothers to play at our wedding." Well, we probably could have afforded them at that time, but now, forget it. (And we are still not married, oh well.)
I wish you the best of luck, and I think you'll need it. It will be tough for you, and if you don't succeed, I'm sure it won't spoit your special day. Also, I'm kinda' with TAFKAM and Sunday on this one; we need them to come back.
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~Megan
"Free is not your right to choose, it's answering what's asked of you, to give the love you find until it's gone."
I'd like to say that was a heart warming first post. But I gotta go with very, very strange.
Where's my wedding invite?
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Having had a little bird whisper to me what the current booking rate was... eh... I hope you're not only lucky but also rich.
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Interesting approach, but I'm with the others when I say I can't imagine this working out for you like this.
A few years ago, perhaps you could petition a band as such, but now, proably not this band in this way.
The last year or two, it seems they have a very strategic touring schedule in place, and as dates sell out now, they are even saying things like "only appearance until 2011 in Chicago" etc...
I think you'd have better luck finding out where they're (probably already) booked to play on that night, and move your wedding there.
Have you contacted management or their booking agent with your proposal/hopes yet? After all, it's those folks, not the Avetts themselves, who schedule their tour plans.
It's very romantic to mount an internet-wide campaign, but I think you'll probably just end up being disappointed. (And this could negatively impact your feelings about this band if you hold them to blame for your disappointment) From what I've seen, it seems things just don't work this way in the music business these
days. It is, after all, a business.
I'm not trying to crush your hopes and dreams (I'm a dreamer, too), I'm just trying to bring you back to reality so that you can have the best chance possible at having the wedding experience you're looking for. And a destination wedding sounds like the way to go for this one.
Why not elope this spring and catch them abroad, just you & your groom? Then come back home and have a big reception and play some of their music as a part of it. Just a thought. Best of luck to you.
I wonder what HGTR charges to play private shows? That'd be more feasible.
OR you could have your wedding a little earlier in the campgrounds at Merlefest.
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"OR you could have your wedding a little earlier in the campgrounds at Merlefest."
That would be positively awesome. I'd film it for you, in stunning HD.
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I would totally get married at Merlefest. But only if the Avetts were playing that year.
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~Megan
"Free is not your right to choose, it's answering what's asked of you, to give the love you find until it's gone."
UNC reported that that they paid $30,000 to secure TAB for a homecoming show in 2008. I imagine they're even harder to get now.
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I live in nashville so i don't care if its a birthday, bat mitzvah, or wedding, if it gets the avetts here i'm in. Congratulations by the way
AVETTS NEED TO COME BACK IN 2010! there show on halloween was incredible. i saw them in atlanta on january 1, 2010 and they were awesome again. but they do need to hit nashville up again.
Thank you for all of the feedback...we do realize that this is a long shot and that we would have had a much better chance to make this work a couple of years ago...that being said, it doesn't hurt to try, and it certainly doesnt cost anything (except for a few stamps
We will not be crushed if it doesn't work, but instead play a couple of songs at our receptions and dance with our friends and family...then continue to attend Avett Brothers shows in different locations and continue to appreciate....Thank you again for all of your ideas and recommendations...
P.S. a camping trip and wedding ceremony surrounded by tents at Merlefest does sound tempting
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lenacorinna - I think it will happen. Just believe it can... Damn realists.
Um, yeah. Sorry guys. Ask for $$ instead of gifts, and invite everyone you know, and charge a cover, and then put the rest on your spanking new credit cards and maybe you'll get the boys.
You're right. It doesn't hurt.
I actually had the nerve to call about the boys for a private party back in 2006- and back then it was 7K. Now, I'd die of embarrassment before I'd call again, but, I think some folks on the festival music committee call and ask their rate every year (just to make sure they know it before I talk them up all over again, like I do EVERY YEAR) and it's always in the same tier as our headliners. It's not the place to put $$ amounts here on the boards, but, it's a good number they've worked hard for and completely deserve.
I also think it puts private events safely in their past. Also, completely deserved.
Everyone on this board feels a personal connection to the band- we wouldn't be on here if we didn't. That's the uniqueness of the boys- they still feel that accessible to everyone. I hope they never lose that.
I'll never get my backyard show I once thought attainable, but I've gotten small conversations, show requests, photos, photos with my BABY, and the occasional "yeah, I know you" look from them. I couldn't ask for more.