Thanks for your comments. I’m sorry for your frustrations. At a concert like Gary Allan, enthusiastic patrons will often be on their feet during concerts— artists often even encourage it. If it had been just a couple of people standing up, our ushers would have asked them to sit down, but when it’s the majority of people down front, we won’t disrupt the vibe. In the future, you might want to ask for seating a little further back in the reserved benches, where your higher profile might help with visibility.
As for parking, the member reserved lot where you were parking is always closed off until the end of the concert, so not to disrupt the concert. On your ticket for the parking lot, we print “Lot locked at showtime (no exit during concert).”
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
why does the festival allow the lawn seats in front of the reserved seating to stand during performances. we were at the gary allan show last night and left early because the people in front of us never sat down. some even were standing on drink coolers. when we left, we were in reserved parking, and were told we couldn’t leave until the performance was over. huh?? the parking lot was blocked by one chain, and there was another further down the drive. Pretty amazing…. thanks for your time… kb
There is a very talented rock band that goes by the name Monte Negro and I think they would be perfect for the Britt Festival. Would anyone else agree? Or ever heard of them?
Yes, lawn tickets are general admission tickets, first come, first served (with the exception of some reserved lawn tickets up front). The tickets are just numbered so we can 1.) keep track of how many we sold, and 2.) we can associate your tickets with your account.
Hi: I purchased tickets to an upcoming performance and my tickets are LAWN: GEN 1516-1518(3) – I’ve been doing some reading on the site and it appears that all lawn seats are general admission – first enter – first choice of LAWN seats – can you please confirm ?
Andes Manta, Andean music and education program, would be awesome for a family event. See andesmanta.com for more info. I saw them perform in Philadelphia and thought they were great.
Anybody know how I can connect with a “line sitter” for an upcoming show? I’m sitting on the lawn but have a personal committment during the day of the show and REALLY want to sit pretty low on the hill due to vision.
Hi Robin,
You could try the new Northwest Outdoor Store at 980 Biddle Rd, or the Ashland Outdoor Store in Ashland. You can also rent 4-inch chairs at the venue.
Any other places anyone else can recommend?
Sara King Cole, Marketing Director
Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours would be a boon. They put on a great show, singing Americana. Their fans are called ‘Flamingoheads’, per the classic plastic flamingos indigent to trailer parks.
With songs like Prozac Made me Stay, My Baby Whistles When She Walks, Trailer Hoppin, and others they make for a real polyester-fest!
Here’s a link to their website for a free listen: ( Also check them out on YouTube and Myspace)
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A constant problem with this venue is that there are no defined walkways, especially down the outer sides of the lawn seating area. This results in chairs being nearly up against the fence on the one side and folks walking have to weave thru the crowds. Twice, last weekend 2 different woman tripped and landed on our backs.
If the Britt would invest the money to lay some concrete walkways down each outer side of the lawn seating areas this would give people much safer, defined place to walk.
Thanks for your question—hope you enjoyed the Steve Martin performance!
Ten of the picnic tables at the top of the hill are available for reservation by our Leadership, Gold Circle, Benefactor and Clef Club members. The rest are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If a table is reserved, there will be a sign indicating that on the table; if not, you’re welcome to use it.
Thanks for your message. As we considered how to best (and safely) institute a non-smoking policy, we realized that the execution was more difficult than we had anticipated.
Britt has a “no re-entry” policy that was instituted primarily for patron safety issues, and those same concerns still apply. With that in mind, we didn’t want to change that policy to allow smokers to leave and re-enter the hill. Additionally, we didn’t want to encourage smoking on the streets near the Britt park, as this would create potential challenges for the city, and for our immediate neighbors, as well as possible fire hazards.
We decided that the best overall approach was to a) keep smokers as far as possible from the stage and lower lawn, b) create a safe zone that would protect the surrounding woodlands, and c) keep smokers behind the fence that mark the festival grounds. We believe keeping smokers on the service road above the park grounds was the best all-around solution. We hope you recognize that we tried our best to balance a lot of different challenges—including that of being reasonably accommodative of our patrons who do smoke, without infringing upon the space of our non-smoking audience.
Thanks, and please let us know if you have any other questions.
Sara King Cole, Britt Festivals
