If American concert promoter David Carver can convince Aerosmith to play in Charlottetown this summer, Tourism Charlottetown will lend a hand.
Carver is in the process of lining up several partners to help bring a major concert to the Island, and Aerosmith is a front-runner as the headliner for the event. If it comes together, Tourism Charlottetown will provide cash support.
"It's a business proposition that we look at," said Tourism Charlottetown president Kevin Murphy.
"For us to even put on the Festival of Lights or the Jack Frost Festival, there's an enormous amount of time, money and energy that goes into those. So when a private citizen wants to come to our city and bring business and tourists … we look at that as a win-win and we should be supporting it wholeheartedly.
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Last year Tourism Charlottetown gave Carver $5,000 to help bring the Black Eyed Peas to the Island. Murphy won't say how much the organization is prepared to donate this year.
Tourism Charlottetown is funded jointly by its members and by taxpayers.
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