Friday evening the band Great Lake Swimmers played a fantastic concert in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The show was free to the public. I am a member of the Campus Activities Council Concert Series Executive Committee, which is the group of students that are responsible for scheduling, promoting, and working the various concerts that take place on the University of Oklahoma campus.

Great Lake Swimmers are not merely a local act struggling to gain exposure in the Norman area.  This band is based out of Toronto, and the OU performance Friday night was one of their last concerts before they go to Europe to tour in November.  Clearly, this is a band on the rise.

This great concert is representative of the many fantastic opportunities to see phenomenal live shows on campus.  Moreover, many times these concerts are either completely free or heavily discounted for students.

The Concert Series Exec is a lot of fun as well.  For every concert, we help the band carry in their equipment and load it out after the show concludes.  On several occasions I have been tasked with purchasing meals for the band members (usually they request some obscure organic dish that is impossible to locate).   Often times the band and crew will want to socialize after the concert, so we as a Concert Series Exec get the fun opportunity of showing these people a bit of Norman nightlife.

The Great Lake Swimmers concert was really fun.  I enjoyed listening to their melodic, laid-back indie rock.  I helped the band carry their equipment to their tour bus after the show and personally thanked them for an amazing performance.  We chatted about baseball, (their tour manager is a die-hard Yankees fan who spent the majority of the evening following the playoff game on his laptop outside the auditorium) and I enjoyed getting to talk to such genuinely friendly and interesting people.  If this sounds like a fun job you may be interested in, maybe you should apply for Concert Series next fall!