BlackCreek Summer Music Festival To Go Social on Facebook(R) Platform

BlackCreek Summer Music Festival To Go Social on Facebook(R) Platform

Plácido Domingo to be interviewed live on Facebook by BlackCreek
Artistic Advisor, Marvin Hamlisch - Today, Friday, May 13 @ 2:00 PM EST

To view the Social Media Release, click here: http://smr.newswire.ca/en/blackcreek-summer-music-festival/blackcreek-summer-music-festival

TORONTO, May 13 /PRNewswire/ - The BlackCreek Summer Music Festival announced
it will be going social on Facebook® Platform. 

The new annual summer music festival series will launch in Toronto on
June 4 at the Rexall Centre at York University in Toronto with world
renowned tenor, Plácido Domingo, in concert.  BlackCreek's inaugural
season will feature Symphonic, Pop, Opera, Jazz, Broadway, Country and
Gospel music concerts with renowned artists including James Taylor,
Lionel Richie, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley,
The London Symphony Orchestra, conductors Lorin Maazel and Marvin
Hamlisch, and classical concerts featuring spoken performances by Dame
Helen Mirren and  Jeremy Irons, with more artists still to be
announced.

BlackCreek Summer Music Festival has incorporated social media at every
level of the festival ensuring that fans have a truly social
experience, whether they are attending the BlackCreek concerts in
person or through the multiple online and mobile platforms available on
a global basis.

The BlackCreek Summer Music Festival's social features include:

-- Live Concert Streaming of the June 4th Plácido Domingo concert
on his Facebook Page using Facebook Credits - a first.

-- An application built on Facebook® Platform that will allow
BlackCreek Summer Music Festival ticket buyers to group their
friends and encourage them to join them at the BlackCreek
concerts. The more friends on Facebook that buy tickets, the
more they will be rewarded with ticket discounts, merchandise
and exclusive content.

-- When someone arrives at the BlackCreek Festival and checks in
using Facebook Places, they are directed to a special VIP
stadium entrance, and then they are invited to enjoy an
exclusive VIP lounge that they can use before the concert,
during intermission and post concert. They will also have a
chance to be upgraded to a Luxury Suite with all their friends
that are attending the concert, as well as BlackCreek Festival
virtual gift cards for free live streaming of the concert that
they can send to friends that cannot attend live.

-- Many more exclusive benefits will be announced throughout the
summer.

"Facebook instilled in us the need to be 'Social by Design' from the
very start of our business.  Social media has changed the way we live
on a daily basis and our work on Facebook ensured that an enhanced
social experience for our fans will be ubiquitous in everything we do."
stated Kevin Albrecht, CEO, BlackCreek Summer Music Festival. "Let's
face it; concerts are more fun when you are with your friends; in the
era of social media, that means our fans have friends all around the
world. We wanted to create an environment where you could share your
passion for the music at BlackCreek with all of your friends no matter
where they were."

The BlackCreek Summer Music Festival experience begins today, Friday,
May 13 at 2:00 p.m. EST on www.Facebook.com/blackcreekfestival, with a Live Streaming Unplugged Interview with Plácido Domingo on the
BlackCreek Summer Music Festival Facebook page. The interview will be
conducted by Marvin Hamlisch- the multiple Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony
Award-winning composer and pops conductor - who serves as the Artistic
Advisor for the Festival's Broadway and Pops concert presentations:

Plácido Domingo Live
An Exclusive Interview by Marvin Hamlisch
Live from The National Press Centre in Washington D.C.
Friday May 13 @ 2:00 EST

About BlackCreek Summer Music Festival

BlackCreek's 2011 season will host concerts throughout the summer months
featuring Symphonic, Pop, Opera, Jazz, Broadway, Country and Gospel
music with renowned artists including Plácido Domingo, James Taylor,
Lionel Richie, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall, John Fogerty and The Levon
Helm Band, Chris Botti and Pink Martini, iconic country artists Brad
Paisley and Allan Jackson, The London Symphony Orchestra, conductors
Lorin Maazel and Marvin Hamlisch, and classical concerts featuring
spoken performances by Dame Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons, and more to
be announced , all performing "On a warm summer's night...Under a
northern sky." 

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CONTACT: BlackCreek Summer Music Festival:Deborah Knight dkpr public relations inc.
(416) 200-3577
dknight@dkpr.caNorman Zagier Managing Director, Marketing and Communications
(416) 323-2333
nzagier@blackcreekfestival.comFacebook:Victoria Freeman High Road Communications
(416) 644-2251
vfreeman@highroad.com

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