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College yields to Verde Valley resident pressure

College announces series of programs in response to criticism over excluding Verde Valley from major cultural events

Pressure cartoonIn response to increasing pressure by Verde Valley residents over Prescott based administrators concentrating almost all major cultural events on the Prescott campus, the Community College  has announced it will bring a series of cultural performances to the “East Yavapai County” during the 2014-15 academic year.  The first of these performances is the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio, which is scheduled to perform Friday evening, August 22 on the Verde campus.  The College has said that later in the season, performances such as The Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt, Moscow Nights & The Golden Gates, Ahn Trio and Reveille 3, and an Andrews Sisters Tribute will be brought to “East Yavapai County.”

Whether the future performances are free or a fee will be charged has not been made public.  (There was general confusion over the Monk Jazz concert when the College first announced a ticket fee and then a week before the concert changed its mind and offered the concert free.)  The College has also not made public where the various future performances will be held.

“Free” concert advertising a little confusing

Late change in whether to charge for event explains confusion 

Flyer for Verde Monk concertYavapmond cencert newspaper advertisementai Community College is sponsoring one of those rare concerts on the Verde campus on Friday, August 22 at 7 p.m. at the Maybery Pavilion with the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio. In a Community College flyer tickets for the concert were advertised at $20 and $10 dollars. In an advertisement in the Sunday, August 17  Verde Independent, readers were urged to go to www.ycpac.com for tickets. Once there, you learn the tickets are FREE. However, nothing in the newspaper advertisement suggests they are free. An email sent by the College on Saturday, August 16 to a number of Verde residents informed them that the concert is free. 

Reliable sources say that the decision was made Friday afternoon, August 15 to change the concert from one with paid tickets to a free event.   Therefore, the confusing print advertising.  We have been assured that the event is FREE to the public on the Verde campus.

However, if you want to see the trio a day earlier (August 21), they will perform at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus. Tickets for the performance in Prescott are $25 and $48 dollars per seat.