How many people attend the annual Ziegfest concert near Bryan College?
The largest and most popular annual event at Lake Bryan is the Ziegenbock Music Festival (Ziegfest), which takes place over Labor Day weekend. Between 7,500 and 10,000 people attend Ziegfest each year. Partial proceeds benefit the Brazos Valley Go Texan Committee, which provides high school students with college scholarships. “Ziegfest is always very exciting. People come out and listen to all kinds of music. This year it’s going to be really great,” exclaimed Mr. Peveto. The 6th annual Ziegfest will take place on Sunday, September 6 and will feature Clint Black, the Eli Young Band, Roger Creager and Wade Bowen, among other performers. For more information, please visit www.ziegfest.com Sources: http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:B5eG4woDPoEJ:www.b
Booking difficulties Salmon said one of the biggest challenges local concert organizers face — and the main reason MSC Town Hall changed its focus — is consolidation of the concert promotion industry. “A lot of shows that we would historically get to play Rudder Auditorium were playing Verizon Wireless Theater in downtown Houston instead,” Salmon said. “With all of the consolidation in the industry, promoters were combining with venues.” With the ability to bid for multiple dates — and to pull in crowds from an extended radius — venue-promoter aligned facilities in Houston and other larger markets began pulling business from Bryan-College Station and other markets that couldn’t assure a performer would manage to break even, Salmon said. Matt Peveto, owner of the Lakeside Icehouse in Bryan, said while the area does not always pull concert-goers from a wide radius, marketing dollars are generally fewer. “I do five to six times the amount of marketing in Houston than I do in College S
