Open Letter - Stevie Wonder Tour - Promoters etc.

Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and whoever it is that is associated with the So-Called Dream Concert being held on September 18th at Radio City Music Hall - I am putting all of you on blast.

Here I am(and i know i am not the only one) getting all excited with the announcement that Stevie Wonder is going on tour again after not being on tour for years. Growing up with stevies music and having all of his albums. It goes without saying that I waited anxiously for the announcement that the tickets for the concert were going onsale. Just to find out this morning that it has turned into a benefit for the Martin Luther King something or another and that the tickets are starting at $1000 dollars EACH?

How DARE the organizers of this event alienate the very people who made each and every one of those performers what they are today. If they needed to do a benefit they should have done a private one and invited THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAN EASILY afford tickets that steep and higher...take a page out of Oprah's book she did it to raise fund for Obama's campaign.

I am truly and completely disgusted with those who chose to make these arrangements and I find it really difficult to continue to support with my hard earned money those who so capriciously make decisions like this.

For the record September the 18th is MY birthday - unless that concert is done for more than oe day which i doubt i will not be able to see it. Again for the record im not on public assistance I am a single, working class African American woman who cannot possibly justify paying $1000 for ONE TICKET no matter WHO is on the bill.

Never saw stevie in concert, never saw aretha in concert and evidently never will....and im thinking if that be the case why am i buying their music?

This is just a complete and total hot mess....shame on the promoters and organizers for this event.