Happening Sept. 27, Lights on the Lawn is pumping cash into Nashville charities and serving as a training opp for students to get into the music biz.
Conventional wisdom says getting down on a dance floor can be a healing experience. In this case, that’s literally true. was a sophomore at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Student life was treating him and his friends well until a close buddy of his, Luke , broke his neck in a boating accident after jumping off and hitting a sandbar, fracturing two vertebrae.
Raskin had already been hosting events around town and had always wanted to put on a dance show in Nashville, a city not necessarily known as an electronic music hotbed, especially in 2012.So he started hustling, asking fraternities at the school to each pitch in between $500 and $1,000 for the event and also agree to not throw their own party on a fall Friday night set aside for the show.
Ultimately, the house duo White Panda signed on to play. On Oct. 18, 2012, more than 1,500 students gathered on the Alumni Lawn to see them play, with the show making $96,000 through ticket sales and donations. Within the year, Luke was walking again.With this, Lights on the Lawn was born. Taking place each year since that 2012 debut, the show is now a staple of the Vanderbilt events calendar.
“Vanderbilt’s a very competitive university,” says Raskin. “If someone’s passionate about music, this gives them a path to producing, promoting, marketing, putting on an educational series, then going to get a job at one of these places.” After graduating from Vanderbilt in 2014, Raskin himself went on to work in the resale department at Ticketmaster for three years, starting in 2017. That year, he thought to ask the company to sponsor Lights on the Lawn, and it was suggested to him that he email“I didn’t expect a response,” says Raskin. Within 48 hours, however, Rapino wrote back. Raskin can still recite the email word for word.
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