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STRATTON MOUNTAIN WELCOMES GAVIN DEGRAW

The outdoor stage is set for live music by Gavin DeGraw with Brooke Lee. GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum singer and songwriter Gavin DeGraw’s inimitable voice and soulful style boldly bloomed on his 2003 platinum-certified full-length debut, Chariot. It included the gold single “Follow Through,” as well as both platinum hits, “Chariot,” and “I Don’t Want To Be.” In 2008, his self-titled second album, Gavin DeGraw, bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 powered by the platinum-selling single “In Love With a Girl.” His gold-certified Sweeter saw him return to the Top 10 as the single “Not Over You” went four times platinum. Meanwhile, his duet with Colbie Caillat, “We Both Know,” garnered a GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Song Written For Visual Media” for Safe Haven.

Doors at 6pm. Opening Band 6:30-7:30pm. Gavin DeGraw 8-10pm. Concert Tickets should be purchased online. Tickets are RFID enabled and can be picked up at Courtyard/Guest Services PUB locations as well as The HUB and Guest Services windows day of concert. Ticket prices are below. Kid's 2 & Under are free but must be seen at ticket window to receive their free ticket.

PURCHASE CONCERT TICKETS

 TICKET PRICING
Adult Tickets (11 years old+)
$50 - In advance
$60 - Day of purchase

Child Tickets (3-10 years old)
$20 - In advance
$25 - Day of purchase
Up to five children's tickets are available with each adult ticket purchased

Kid Tickets (2 & Under)
FREE - All Kids 2 & Under - Child must be present at the window to claim

*All Prices plus taxes. Concert is rain or shine.

 ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gavin DeGraw
Out in the Catskills, a man and a woman loved music almost as much as they loved each other. They attended the original Woodstock on what they thought would be their last weekend together, since the man had his draft card for Vietnam in his back pocket. After his service (he thankfully didn’t enter combat), they got hitched and had three kids. The man worked at the New York State Department of Corrections as a prison guard, and mom joined the reserves for college money (doing what they had to do to get by). It was a life of family hootenannies with guitars and drums roaring until daylight, stained sneakers from mowing seemingly endless lawns in the summer, and a lot of time in church year-round.

Their boy ended up touring the world as a GRAMMY® Award-nominated star…

With a front row seat to this wonderfully wild little life led by his late parents Lynne and John Wayne, Gavin DeGraw recounts its most meaningful memories and valuable lessons on his seventh full-length offering, Face The River [RCA Records]. The multiplatinum singer and songwriter stitches together a timeless tale of his own soundtracked by a signature fusion of rock, pop, soul, and funk.

“Elements of Face The River are definitely my parents’ story,” he observes. “There are also moments of me watching it. This was the record I felt like I had to make. I got to bear witness to the greatest love story of two people who would do anything for each other and their family. They were very loyal and committed. They didn’t have money, but they gave me something way better than money. I saw the pinnacle of what love should be.”

Gavin grew up surrounded by this love in the “real” Catskills. “It wasn’t the place that people go to now to pick berries for fun,” he laughs. “We picked them, because they were free.” He cut his teeth playing watering holes anywhere and everywhere around New York. His old man even hocked his demo at bars to get him gigs. “At a young age, he taught me to run to the lion,” he recalls. “If something is scaring you, attack. It’s how I live.”