Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater Joines Majestic-Lake Street Dive

Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater has won a coveted spot on Lake Street Dive's summer tour and will appear on the historic Majestic stage on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. "Lake Street Dive is a multi-genre, jazzy-pop band from Boston who is one of THE hottest concert tickets with millennials," observed Jeffrey Gabel, the founding executive director of the Majestic. "If you can only attend one concert this year, this is the one not to miss."

Since Lake Street Dive's February 2016 release of Side Pony on Nonesuch Records, the band has been a tour de force, hitting some major career milestones. Lake Street Dive was featured on Chris Thile's hosting debut of A Prairie Home Companion, among many other high points that include sold-out shows at the iconic 6,000 seat Radio City Music Hall in New York. Lake Street Dive were invited to play at the White House, sold out 42 shows in 2016 throughout the United States and were musical guests on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Today Show.

The quartet's live shows have been widely praised by publications such as Billboard, saying Lake Street Dive successfully combined "Amy Winehouse, Rita Hayworth and R&B charisma," and Rolling Stone called their album Side Pony, produced by Grammy winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell) "irresistible." Upon its release the album was #1 on the Alternative chart and #11 on the Billboard Album Sales chart.

The title Side Pony takes its name from a song on the record that refers to a whimsical hairstyle, but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive's philosophy and personality as a band. As bassist Bridget Kearney puts it, "When we were settling on the album title, that one just stuck out to us as embodying the band's spirit. We've always been this somewhat uncategorizable, weird, outlying, genre-less band. That's the statement we wanted to make with this record: be yourself."

To purchase tickets, $59, $49, $39 call 717-337-8200, visit www.gettysburgmajestic.org or stop by the Box Office, 25 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. The Box Office is open Monday through Saturday from Noon until 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Free parking and roundtrip shuttle service is available from Gettysburg College's Constitution Parking Lot. Shuttle starts one hour before the performance and is ADA accessible. Metered parking is available at the Gettysburg Borough Parking Garage in Race Horse Alley as well as along Carlisle Street. The Majestic Theater at the Jennifer and David LeVan Performing Arts Center is owned and operated by Gettysburg College as a cultural treasure for its campus and the community.

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