Last year, everything went great in all aspects except attendance.

I know these things can grow. I just feel certain that this is gonna happen. And I think we can offer something the people of Greeley can be proud of.

There's only two people in blues who have names like that. There's B.B. King and Buddy Guy. But Buddy Guy cost us a ton of money last year. What really sold me on Bishop is we saw him at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and he just ripped the place apart.

This year had been outstanding at its capacity. We've had terrific attendance.

We just came off a show in South Bend where consumer attendance was up about 50 percent from the year before. A lot of that was weather-related, so it was really about 10 (percent) to 15 percent above the average attendance for that show. Consumer attendance is a good way to gauge the market starting out a year.

We've been doing a lot of outings. Attendance has been great.