 The Sanford Center in Bemidji hosted concerts on back-to-back nights last week for the first time since it opened in 2010 and saw big crowds of more than 2,000 people each night. Ticketmaster reports that over half of the concertgoers for the Stone Sour Hailstorm Concert on Wednesday and the Lee Bryce Concert on Thursday came from outside the Beltrami County area with a large portion coming from the Twin Cities. With the success of those events, concertgoers may see more back-to-back country and rock concerts in the future. I think the formula that we found is that a country concert and a rock concert can go back-to-back or close to proximity of each other, which is a good thing. So that's one of the things that we know and whenever we can make it work, we will. We're actually working on some things that are close to each other right now as the future goes. So, yeah, very excited about that. And the community supported it wonderfully and that's what this is about. The calculated economic impact created by the two concerts last week is over half a million dollars as determined by hotel attendees, average daily spending and number of concertgoers. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.