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Win Tix to This Sunday's Experience Hendrix at the Greek Theatre
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What a great line-up: music greats Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox and Buddy Guy will headline this Sunday at the Greek Theatre with Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robby Krieger, Eric Johnson, David Hidalgo & Ceacar Rosas of Los Lobos, Hubert Sumlin, Chris Layton, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Gales, Mato Nanji.
It's one of the last shows rounding off The Greek's fantastic season of shows that we know many of you have attended and enjoyed. We're giving away some pairs of tickets to the show today and tomorrow (you can also buy tickets here)
To enter the contest, tell us what you're planning to do for Halloween in the comments below.
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- Enter the contest by making a comment on this post. Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
- The criteria of the comment is that you share your plans for this Halloween.
- You may only enter once.
- The contest closes at 07:00:00 a.m. on Friday, October 31, 2008.
- One qualifying entry will be randomly selected to receive a pair of tickets and will be notified via the e-mail connected to their LAist.com login. They must confirm the receipt of the e-mail by 12:00 p.m., Friday, October 31, 2008 or the tickets will be released to another winner.
- Tickets will be held at the will-call pick up at the event
Good luck!
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