Live Music Industry News: Marathon Live, ROSTR and More
In the latest live music industry news, Mark Dinerstein and JPB Partners have purchased Nashville music venue and promoter Marathon Live from founder Josh Billue. Dinerstein is the new CEO and Billue will serve as CDO.
Marathon Live operates six live music including Nashville’s Marathon Music Works, The Truman in Kansas City, The Signal in Chattanooga, The Hall in Little Rock, The Hawthorn in St. Louis and FIVE in Jacksonville, FL.
The plan is to continue to expand through acquisitions, construction and renovations of existing venues. The company also formally launching a facility management division offering a suite of services for existing facilities with 1,000 – 2,500 capacity including risk-based and non-risk talent buying,
Dinerstein was a co-founder of event producer LiveCo and served as President of Knitting Factory Presents.
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• The team behind ROSTR has launched I’d love to invite you to try New Industry Focus (NIF) – a new music business news site.
“We started working on NIF because we believe our industry needs a fresh approach to business news,” said Mark Williamson, Co-Founder & CEO of The ROSTR GROUP.
A key component of that “fresh approach” is embracing “Smart Brevity” – a writing style created by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format.
Most ROSTR industry news and signings will move to the new site in the coming weeks.
• Concert Stuff Group, a live event production and creative media services, has partnered with Loud & Clear, a full-service production company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
This strategic move further expands Concert Stuff Group’s footprint across the U.S., reinforcing its position as a top-tier provider of end-to-end solutions for the live entertainment industry.
• Concert tickets prices increased 80.5% since 2021 according to a new study. Since 1996, concert prices ballooned 428.7% from just $25.81 to $136.46.
Aligned with inflation, a concert ticket from 1996 which averaged $25.81 would cost just $49.74 in current dollars. That’s about one-third of what fans pay now and 4.6X inflation. (MORE)
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Bruce Houghton
