Meijer Gardens has tickets for just six concerts left for public sales come Saturday morning

With two dozen of the summer’s 30 concerts already sold out to Meijer Gardens members, it’s slim pickings for Saturday’s public sales offering, with just a few tickets left for Lyle Lovett and Seal.

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For those who aren’t members of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, the cupboard is pretty bare when it comes to tickets for the 2016 summer concert series.

The series already has broken some impressive sales records: 24 of the 30 concerts sold out to members the first weekend of pre-sales, twice as many sellouts as the outdoor amphitheater racked up during the same period last year.

So, when tickets go on sale to the general public at 9 a.m. Saturday, the popular series will have only six shows left to sell and two of those – Lyle Lovett & His Large Band (July 24) and Seal (Aug. 26) – are nearly sold out, said public relations manager John VanderHaagen, who expects tickets for those two concerts to disappear quickly.

That leaves tickets for The Monkees (June 8), Femi Kuti & The Positive Force Band (July 20), comedian Jay Leno (July 28) and WAR & Los Lonely Boys (Aug. 3) available online at startickets.com, by phone at 1-800-585-3737 or in person at the Meijer Gardens admission desk, 1000 E. Beltline Ave. NE.

The record-setting pace of sellouts left many ticket buyers out in the cold after the first day of sales to members, with Jackson Browne’s June 27 show and Bonnie Raitt’s Aug. 31 appearance at the 1,900-capacity amphitheater selling out in less than 10 minutes. Within three hours, 17 concerts had sold out.

Many of the artists whose concerts have sold out — including Tedeschi Trucks Band, Goo Goo Dolls and Diana Ross — also are performing at other venues in Michigan, within a short drive of Meijer Gardens. Check out these shows in this Local Spins story.

Read more about the Meijer Gardens summer concert series in this Local Spins feature.

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