Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, May 25, 1990                   TAG: 9005250207
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NO TICKETS? NO BELLAMY BROTHERS

Tickets are no longer available.

"We've sold all the tickets we're going to sell for the show," said Sam Price, manager of the Roanoke office of the Gehl Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based promotion and fundraising organization.

The Bellamy Brothers show is being staged as a benefit for the Roanoke Firefighters Association, the union that represents the Roanoke City firefighters. Price said the performance is not a public event, but rather one of two private fund-raising efforts Gehl stages for the union local each year.

Lisa Weatherman, a spokeswoman for Gehl in the organization's Nashville office, said that the bulk of the company's clients are union locals.

The Roanoke show is being organized by Gehl, which hired the performers, rented the coliseum and sold tickets through a telephone solicitation campaign that ended a couple of weeks ago.

Since then Price's office has not taken any orders for tickets. Price said that he was concerned that a lot of people would show up at the Civic Center expecting to be able to buy tickets and be disappointed. He stressed that no tickets will be available at the door.