Concerts

LOS ANGELES -- ScoreBig, an Internet startup that sells cut-rate tickets to sporting events and concerts, is trying to get bigger.

FARMINGTON -- With a $1,000 payout ceiling for acts, it is unlikely, regardless of how popular The Beach Boys are with Davis County officials, that the group will perform at Antelope Island during the state park's proposed 2012 inaugural summer concert series.

NEW YORK -- It's the dreaded sound at any live performance -- a ringing cellphone.

That's what happened Tuesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall during the final movement of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic. Maestro Alan Gilbert stopped the orchestra until the phone was silenced.

Michael Palumbo's deep, dark secret is finally out.

Apparently, the Weber State University music professor hates handicapped people. And small children. Oh, and puppies and kitties and bunnies. And maybe even a rainbow or sunset or two.

FARMINGTON -- A fall concert with a theme about how choices, both wise and foolish, shape our lives will be presented by the Farmington-based Ruth Gatrell Singers at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Farmington City Community Arts Center, 120 S. Main St.

SALT LAKE CITY  — A Salt Lake City family has filed a $2.7 million federal civil lawsuit against a Utah company that they say promised big financial returns in exchange for backing concerts by music stars R. Kelly, Kenny Chesney and Maroon 5.

OGDEN -- Local philanthropist John Gullo has asked Ogden police to investigate a music promoter he contends owes him $11,250 over musical performances at Ogden's recent Hot Rock'n 4th celebration.

Gullo, who is trustee of the American Dream Foundation, said Jason Taylor, of Orem-based Double Play Entertainment, was supposed to reimburse him for payments Gullo made to country music performers Josh Gracin and the Bellamy Brothers.

Gullo wants to see Taylor prosecuted for giving him a check that bounced.