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Saturday night, June 25, 2011. Doo Wops at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo ©

If you check the Saturday night programming this summer, you will find very little happening at the Great Auditorium.  The Beach Boys will be supplying good vibrations on August 18, and the Doo Wops will arrive with a blast from the past on September 1.

But otherwise, the Great Auditorium will have no Saturday night shows that would bring large crowds of tourists into the Grove.

This will confirm the Blogfinger Counting Cars Theory of parking remediation where reducing the number of cars coming into the Grove on a Saturday night will improve parking.  Take advantage of this generous offer by the CMA and invite friends and family to your houses or to enjoy the town without fear of parking glut.

So why did the CMA offer that parking relief?  We are told that they weren’t making money on those big shows  (Abba, Tony Bennett, Paul Anka, Johnny Mathis, Neil Sedaka, Allentown Band and other popular acts.)   We thought that they were going to fill those Saturday night schedules with religious programming, but it’s not in their Program Guide.

I’m not counting the 2 Summer Band concerts which will not impact parking in the Grove.

Maybe the CMA should take a look at secular programming combined with parking relief  (such as shuttles) but they need to consider some events that will attract younger people or leave that beautiful building empty on summer Saturday nights prime time.    —-PG

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