The latest news from the concert-ticket trade
By WILL SPITZ | April 4, 2006
Tony Bennett | June 9 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $65.25 + $78.25 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Tom Jones | June 30 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $52.75 + $65.75 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Hootie & the Blowfish | July 7 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $46.25 + $59.25 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | George Carlin | July 21 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $42 + $55 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Saw Doctors | August 9 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $33.25 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Beach Boys | August 11 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $42.25 + $55.25 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Styx | August 12 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $40.25 + $53.25 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Kathy Griffin | August 25 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $35 + $48 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS| Lewis Black | September 1 at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | $36 + $49 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.ARTS | Akon | May 3 at Avalon, Boston | $25 | 617.931.2000 | Apollo Sunshine | May 4 at the Middle East, Cambridge | $12 | 617.931.2000 | Stephen Stills | May 9 at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville | $35 | 617.931.2000 | Blue October | May 17 at the Paradise, Boston | $10 | 617.931.2000 | SUNN O))) | May 18 at the Middle East, Cambridge | $12 | 617.931.2000 | Melissa Etheridge | July 30 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell | $35-$100 | 617.931.2000
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