Popcorn and Pen

Two legendary blues/rock acts took the Verizon Wireless Music Center stage Saturday night, providing an entertainment outlet for classic rock and soft rock fans. Joe Cocker and the Steve Miller Band not only gave an older audience base a little rock nostalgia, but proved they still knew a thing or two about putting on a [...]

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Verizon Wireless Music Center has already seen Tim McGraw and Rascal Flatts. Brooks & Dunn and Toby Keith are slated to appear later this summer. But on Thursday night, Brad Paisley left his imprint on the venue’s country schedule with a highly entertaining show with his catalog of Grammy-winning songs.
Despite a 25-minute delay, once Paisley [...]

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Clapton played to a sellout crowd Friday night despite nearby tornado warnings and storms that drenched other areas. The rain held off until just before his encore.
Clapton didn’t say much, preferring to sing instead.
“What a lovely night,” he said.
This isn’t the Eric Clapton your grandpa listened to back in the days of the Yardbirds and [...]

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Perhaps no one enjoyed Saturday’s May Day 2008 at Verizon Wireless Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St. in Noblesville, more than 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold. At the conclusion of every song he sported the same ear-to-ear smile and expressed his gratitude to the near-capacity crowd.
“Thank you so much,” Arnold recited over and over [...]

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For its opening concert of 2008, Verizon Wireless Music Center couldn’t have asked for a better start or bigger name than country superstar Tim McGraw. In return, McGraw couldn’t have asked more from his loyal fan base as the entire audience waited through steady rainfall for his performance Friday night.
They hung on every word, every [...]

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