Winnipeg Blue Bombers Sue AEROSMITH’s Promoter For Cancelled Concert
February 9, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Nationalpost.com, the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers team is suing a concert promoter over last year’s cancelled AEROSMITH concert.
Bob Sokalski, the club’s lawyer, said Monday club lost money because of the non-concert last August 7.
Sokalski said the club had already spent $97,392.47 for expenses like facility conversion and staffing before the show was cancelled. The club is also suing for general damages because it lost out on its share of concession sales, parking fees, ticketing commissions and the $4 per ticket facility fee.
“Keystone [Entertainment Group Ltd.] owed an obligation to the football club,” he said. “Our claim is not with the band, it’s with Keystone.”Just two days before the Winnipeg show, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler fell off the stage during a performance in South Dakota, breaking his shoulder and injuring his head and neck.
The band cancelled the rest of its tour of Western Canada.
