JBJ Hamilton College Benefit Concert

A JBJ/KOS (not King of Swing, but Kings of Suburbia) concert benefitting Hamilton College has been announced. Now, before everyone dusts off their wallets, according to, Hamilton's newspaper, The Spectator the concert is intended primarily for Hamilton alumni, parents and those affiliated with the College, but members of the Hamilton community are welcome to bring friends to the event.

There is nothing listed about how/if restrictions will be made, but with only a thousand-odd tickets available, I would imagine there would be some sort of "proof of residency" deal with the sales.  However, that's all speculation on my part; that information should be on Hamilton's web site next week.

Jon Bon Jovi and The Kings of Suburbia

Benefit Concert for Scholarships and the Arts at Hamilton College

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 8 p.m.

Best Buy Theater, 1515 Broadway at W. 44th Street, New York, NY 10036

The concert is open to all Hamilton alumni, parents and friends, but fewer than 1,200 tickets are available.

The concert will help to fund the new theatre and studio arts facilities. Construction of these facilities began in the summer of 2012 and will provide more classrooms, studios and workshops for visual arts students. The building will also contain performance spaces, technical equipment and design spaces for theater theatre students. Artists of all disciplines will have the opportunity to collaborate in the Interdisciplinary Studio for Trans-Media Arts and Related Studies (STARS). The new facility will open in the summer of 2014. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, which will open this year, and the new visual art and theater theatre facility make up the new art complex funded by gifts from the Bicentennial Initiatives campaign.

Jon Bon Jovi and The Kings of Suburbia will also help to continue Hamilton’s need-blind initiative by donating another portion of the concert’s proceeds to student scholarships.

Tickets will be available beginning the week of September 17. More information is available at www.hamilton.edu/jbj.



~ Hath