Taylor Swift signed guitar from ‘Midnights’ periods is being auctioned off
A signed Taylor Swift guitar from her ‘Midnights’ recording periods is being auctioned off in assist of conflict veterans.
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The acoustic guitar, which options a picture of the singer-songwriter through the recording of her latest album, at the moment has seven bids with the most recent at $4,500 (£3,708). You can also make a bid on the merchandise here.
Raven Drum Basis’s second annual 12 Drummers Drumming public sale will run till subsequent Monday (December 12), bringing collectively an inventory of music’s most influential artists to boost important funds for veterans and first responders who’re coping with PTSD and trauma, in response to Billboard.
Based by Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen and his spouse Lauren Monroe, Raven Drum Basis’s mission is “to serve, educate and empower veterans, first responders and trauma survivors with a targeted effort to stop suicide by way of modern wellness-support packages,” in response to press launch.
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In the meantime, Taylor Swift followers within the US are at the moment suing Tickemaster following the latest controversy over ‘The Eras Tour’ tickets.
Greater than a dozen followers from 13 states submitted a lawsuit at Los Angeles County District Courtroom final Friday (December 2), which alleges that Ticketmaster violated the California Cartwright Act and the California Unfair Competitors Legislation throughout its “verified fan” pre-sale final month.
The plaintiffs have accused Dwell Nation – Ticketmaster’s father or mother firm – of a number of allegations together with fraud, value fixing, and antitrust violations.
Final month, Ticketmaster introduced the cancellation of the overall ticket gross sales for Swift’s 2023 North American tour attributable to “terribly excessive demand” and “inadequate remaining ticket stock”. It got here after many shoppers skilled technical points whereas making an attempt to entry Ticketmaster’s pre-sale for ‘The Eras Tour’, together with prolonged wait occasions and web site outages.
Ticketmaster subsequently issued an apology to those that had a “horrible expertise” in navigating its web site, writing: “We attempt to make ticket shopping for as simple as attainable for followers.”
Swift herself responded to followers following the saga. “Effectively. It goes with out saying that I’m extraordinarily protecting of my followers,” she started in a message through Instagram.
“We’ve been doing this for many years collectively and over time, I’ve introduced so many parts of my profession in home. I’ve performed this SPECIFICALLY to enhance the standard of my followers’ expertise by doing it myself with my crew who care as a lot about my followers as I do. It’s actually troublesome to belief an out of doors entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for me to only watch errors occur with no recourse.”