![]() ![]() Crowne sold the AMP to the Walton Arts Center in 2011. He bought the Arkansas Music Pavilion in 2008 and booked the first concert there at a temporary site in Fayetteville just outside the Northwest Arkansas Mall. ![]() We pulled it off.’ It takes an entire team to make the Walmart AMP run, and I am proud to be at the helm.”Ĭrowne is in charge of booking the concerts, and he’s a veteran in that area, having worked in the business for decades as a musician himself and club owner after he bought George’s Majestic Lounge on Dickson Street in Fayetteville in 2004. But then it was like, ‘Holy cow, we did it. “I worried about the toilets flushing and the paint drying in time for Blake Shelton to open his show. “For the five days prior to opening was the most stressful in my life,” Crowne recalled. Looking back at the past five years, AMP Vice President Brian Crowne said the most stressful time was getting the venue open ahead of the first show June 7, 2014. The top selling concerts last year were Dave Matthews Band, Chris Stapleton, G-Eazy and Kenny Chesney. Part of that increase relates to seven more concerts in 2018, than in 2017. Projected revenue for this year is $15.93 million, up 35.6% from the prior year. ![]() The fifth season, which ended in October, was the biggest year on record with 35 public events resulting in 213,337 tickets sold to patrons from 43 different states. Ticket revenue for the five-year period topped $26.89 million, growing each year by an average of 21.5%. The venue raked in $55.2 million in topline revenue in its first five years. Since opening in June 2014, the venue has sold more than 737,000 tickets and hosted 165 concerts or community events, according to Jennifer Wilson, public relations director for the AMP. But’s that’s exactly what has happened in the past five years at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion (AMP) in Rogers. Very few, though, would think the region is on the minds of some of the biggest touring musical artists around the country. Northwest Arkansas is well known for Razorback athletics, and it’s ground zero for retail and supply chain logistics. ![]()
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