Ticket Troubles?

Date: Monday, June 12, 2000
Submitted by:  Keith Grim

Dear Phan Phile,

      Earlier this spring Phil had a concert in Lititz,PA at the Lancaster Evangelical Church. ( I forget the date). The concert was sold out and I did not have a ticket. I wanted to take my two year old daughter, Nikki, to see him. I played a lot of his albums for her and she liked his music. So I told her we will try to go, but we don't have any tickets. So we hopped in the van and drove the 40 miles to the concert.
     When I got to the front door they told me the concert was sold out. I asked if there was someone to talk to about getting a ticket. They pointed me in the direction of the advanced ticket sales desk. Of course they didn't have any. But they asked the guy who booked the concert if he had any tickets left. And he did! As far as I know it was the last ticket. What happened was I got a ticket of someone who was on the stage crew who I believe got sick. Any way he wasn't at the concert for some reason. I paid $10 for the ticket and my daughter didn't need a ticket as long as she sat on my lap. And we ended up in the front row!
      We sat patiently for the concert to begin. Phil came out to a thunderous ovation. He recieved a standing ovation before he played! Any way after the ovation died down, my little daughter said "It's Phil Keaggy." Well, Phil heard her say that from the stage as he plugged in his guitar and adjusted his gadgets. He looked over at her and said like a daddy talking to a two year old in a falceto voice "Hi how are you doing?" And of course my daughter smiled real big. He opened the concert with A Sign Came Through the Window and my daughter began dancing and she pretty much danced through his whole first set. She liked the first song he played, when he made his guitar make funky sounds, and the click clock ahhh sound he did during Every I Look.
     Me? I just enjoyed the whole concert, except for intermission!

                                                        Sincerely,
                                                                Keith Andrew Grim

Webmasters' Note: While my family and I were attending a PK concert, we had 2 extra tickets and went looking for people like this. I hope the 2 we found got as much out of that concert as Keith and his daughter!

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