A&O Concerts

A&O is incredibly proud to be a part of the One Voice Benefit Concert for the fourth year, along with Niteskool and Mayfest. This year’s concert will feature Dan Deacon with an TBA Special Guest. This year, the One Voice Concert Benefits hunger in Asia. This free concert will be held outdoors, on Norris East Lawn. There will also be a food drive benefiting the Chicago Food Depository–donate non-perishable food items in exchange for a piece of free Dillo Day merch!

Thank you to all who came out to A&O Ball 2010! We had a blast and hope you did too. Check back soon for more on A&O’s exciting Spring Quarter. See you soon!

Thank you to everyone who is coming to this year’s A&O Ball! We’re super excited and hope you are as well.

We just have a few details we want to share with you before the show:

Busses will leave from SPAC and Cahn at 6pm, running every 15 minutes until 7:45. They will return immediately after.

We will be checking Wildcards at the door, please remember to bring yours. You must be 21 to drink.

Doors open at 7, the show starts at 8.

Please send any questions to aoproductions@u.northwestern.edu!

-A&O

UPDATE: Tickets for A&O Ball 2010 are sold out.  Please check back for more information on the show closer to the date.

Get ready to get passionate, Northwestern. A&O Productions is proud to announce our headliner for A&O Ball 2010, PASSION PIT at the Riviera Theatre on April 23rd!

But wait, it gets even better! Before Passion Pit takes the stage the legendary Talib Kweli will rock the house. Check him out here if you’re not in love with him already.

Transportation to and from the venue is included with the price of the tickets. Busses will leave from SPAC and Cahn Auditorium starting at 6, and leaving every 15 minutes until 7:45. They will return immediately after the show.

A&O reserves the right to check WildCards at the door. Must be 21 to drink at one of the Riviera’s bars.

Formed by Michael Angelakos in his Emerson dorm room in 2007, the songs that would soon become their first EP were written as a Valentines Day gift to his girlfriend. Now famous for their quirky electronic jams, their new album Manners has been reviewed by Pitchfork as an album that “demands to be socialized with and is just so easy to love back.”

Talib Kweli is one of the most prominent rappers in underground hip-hop, and has worked with notable artists like Mos Def, Kanye West, ?uestlove, and even Dave Chappelle. He has released three solo albums, including the critically acclaimed “Quality”, “Beautiful Struggle”, and “Ear Drum”. Jay-Z even gave Kweli a shout out on his 2003 record, “The Black Album”, saying, “If skills be sold, truth be told/I’d probably be, lyrically, Talib Kweli”.

A&O Productions is proud to announce that six-time Grammy Award winner John Legend is coming to Northwestern University on Friday, October 9th in Welsh-Ryan Arena (Northwestern’s main basketball arena). The “Ordinary People” singer is no ordinary artist, and this is no ordinary A&O show. The show will be a part of the festivities celebrating the Inauguration of incoming President Morton Schapiro, and is A&O’s first show in Welsh-Ryan since Kanye West in 2005. Welsh-Ryan is the BIGGEST venue A&O has ever held a concert in, so get excited to party with more students than ever. Opening for Legend will be a TBA Special Guest.

Tickets are $10 for Undergrads and go on sale online this Thursday, Sept. 24th at 10:30am, using the Norris Box Office online system.  Tickets will go on sale to Graduate Students, faculty, and staff on October 1st for $17. (Please see note below.) Undergraduates may purchase 4 tickets per Wildcard, and you can now print the tickets out right at home (goodbye Norris Box Office lines)! All tickets include transportation to and from the venue; buses will be making the short trip from campus to Welsh-Ryan because we know Legend will leave you weak in the knees. Free shuttle busses will leave from the Arch, Foster/Ridge, and Tech beginning at 6:00PM. Floor seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:00pm. Show begins at 8:00pm. And remember, this is a closed show — WildCARDs will be checked at the door. Doors will open at 7, show at 8.

TICKETING LINK

Note regarding Graduate students, Faculty and Staff ticketing: Graduate students, Faculty and Staff may bring 1 ticketed non-Northwestern affiliated guest each. Wildcards will be checked at the door. Non-undergraduates may only purchase 2 tickets per account on the online system.

A&O is thrilled to team up with One Voice to bring noted DJ RJD2, mashup gurus Hood Internet, and beloved alum Clash Gordon to the Louis Room on May 8. Doors open at 7 and tickets will go on sale April 27th at 10 AM for $5. They will be sold online at nbo.northwestern.edu.

The annual One Voice Benefit Concert raises money and awareness for a global cause. This year, proceeds will donated to UNICEF and By the Hand to improve the quality of primary education locally and abroad.  Remember, A&O reserves the right to check Wildcards at the door.  Be sure to check this site for all the latest!

UPDATE: 12:35 pm 4/23/09: A&O is thrilled to announce that we will be able to sell an additional crop of tickets for A&O Ball at 10am on April 24th, via the Norris Box Office online system. They will be on sale to undergrads only, 2 per WildCard. A&O also wants to remind students that we reserve the right to check WildCards at the door of all shows, and that WildCards WILL BE CHECKED AT A&O BALL.

UPDATE: 10:39 am 4/18/09: Tickets for A&O Ball 2009 are now sold out.  A&O is working to secure a limited number of additional tickets to go on sale at a later date.  Please check this space in the coming days for updates.

A&O Productions is proud to announce two outstanding acts for A&O Ball 2009, headliner Ludacris and support artist The Knux, who will be playing in Northwestern’s own Patten Gymnasium.

Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges is the highest-selling Southern hip-hop solo artist of all time. His bling includes several Grammys and a SAG award for the movie Crash. He’s also the man behind megahits like “Move, Bitch”, “Rollout” and “Stand Up.”  The event will also feature The Knux, whose album was recently crowned Rolling Stone’s “best hip-hop debut of 2008.”

Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. Shake your money makers: tickets are $15 for undergrads, and will be sold via the Norris Box Office Online system Wednesday April 15th at 10AM. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to graduate students, faculty and staff on April 16th for $20.

TICKETING LINK

A&O reserves the right to check WildCards at the door.

We had an extremely enthusiastic student response to our upcoming Joshua Radin concert on March 1st and all available passes have been picked up from the Norris Box Office. If students are still looking to attend the event, the best option is to find a friend with an extra pass. However, in an effort to fill as many seats as possible, a pass will only guarantee a seat if presented no later than 8:20 pm (10 minutes before the start of the event). At that point we will begin seating students without passes and any empty seat will be filled.

UPDATE:  We had an extremely enthusiastic student response to our upcoming Joshua Radin concert on March 1st and all available passes have been picked up from the Norris Box Office. If students are still looking to attend the event, the best option is to find a friend with an extra pass. However, in an effort to fill as many seats as possible, a pass will only guarantee a seat if presented no later than 8:20 pm (10 minutes before the start of the event). At that point we will begin seating students without passes and any empty seat will be filled.

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A&O is proud to announce our fall blowout show, Death Cab for Cutie with special guest So Many Dynamos. The show will be October 10th at the Riviera Theatre in Downtown Chicago.

Tickets will go on sale September 29th, for $15 at the Norris Box office. Transportation by bus is included in the price of tickets. Students will be able to buy 4 tickets per Wildcard, one Wildcard per person.

A&O Productions would also like to remind students that we reserve the right to check Wildcards at the door of the show to ensure that all attendees are in fact Northwestern Students. Watch this space for more details closer to the sale date and show.