T-Swift has come a long way since headlining the 2007 Lehigh Spring Festival (as have ticket policies).
She’s so popular, in fact, that an estimated 15 million bots and ticket buyers overwhelmed Ticketmaster’s pre-sale last week for Swift’s highly anticipated The Eras Tour. Ticketmaster ended up canceling a planned Nov. 18 general sale due to “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand.”
Months later, the 17-year-old Swift and her band rolled up for sound check at Veterans Park in two huge tour buses. “I was like, ‘Oh dear, where are we going to park those things!’” Reisinger recalls. “It took a little finagling on the driver’s part, but we made it happen.” Finally, 8 p.m. arrived and it was time for Swift hit the stage. An estimated 3,500 to 4,000 people packed the audience for the outdoor show.
It was a freezing-cold night, Jackson recalls, and Swift wore a bare-shouldered dress with spaghetti straps. But if Swift was cold, she never let on to the crowd.News-Press photographer Inscore loved what she heard onstage that night. It was a fun show, she says. “How much do you think it would cost to book her now?” Jackson says. “I paid $8,500 . And that was a stretch for the Lehigh Spring Festival, you know?
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