Something encouraging

I just got off work at the station...the main highlight on Fridays for me being that our regular early afternoon talk show is broadcast live from one of Central California's largest Indian gaming casinos.

Now the fact that the show is broadcast from a casino is not the highlight, of course. It's just that running and producing a remote talk show is a welcome break from the normal daily tedium.

What encouraging event occurred? Well, it seems our host was given all kinds of entertainment tickets to give away on the show...among the events, a concert Sunday in Fresno featuring Nat "King" Cole's younger brother Freddie, an Elton John concert in a few weeks in Bakersfield, a concert this weekend in Fresno featuring Michael Buble, and several pairs of tickets for the upcoming Great Western Southern Gospel Fan Festival, coming up at the beginning of May.

Now out of all of that, which tickets do you think we ran out of first?

If you guessed anything but the GWSGFF, you're wrong! The tickets for gospel music's premier West Coast event went first...with ease, according to our host. This helps make my long-held case that the Fresno area loves southern gospel music, and will jump at the chance to get free tickets for it! Are you listening, you big-name groups that say you can't afford to travel out here?:-)

This also is an answer to those who charge that southern gospel can't compete for the entertainment dollar when it has to compete with top secular entertainment. Keep in mind two things about today...

1)Our host never even said who would be singing at the GWSGFF...he simply said he had tickets to give aay for it.

2)All the other events he had tickets for are all going to be held within the next two weeks...the GWSGFF is not happening until the first of May! One would think there would be more demand for what's coming sooner!

But if people here know about a major gospel music event coming, there is no lack of appetite or interest for it! Now it's simply up to those artists at the event to justify all the interest...the people WILL come! And that is really encouraging for those of us who love gospel music and good family entertainment.

I'll keep you all posted...I'm looking forward to it.

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