Win Tickets ($80): Five For Fighting with String Quartet @ Aladdin Theater | Alternative Rock
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Five For Fighting with String Quartet @ Aladdin Theater on April 21. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed April 15.
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From our sponsors:
Five For Fighting with String Quartet
April 21, 2024
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $40 | All Ages
More info: etix.com
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik — the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, Five For Fighting — knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” hit the stratosphere, the artist has both evolved and come back ’round full circle. Creativity, if nothing else, is paradoxical.
To date, Five For Fighting, has released six studio LPs, including the platinum certified America Town and The Battle for Everything; and the top-10 charting Two Lights, along with an EP and live albums.
Ondrasik has penned major hits, including the chart-topping “100 Years,” “The Riddle,” “Chances,” “World,” and “Easy Tonight,” which have earned tens of millions of streams and place him as a top-10 Hot Adult Contemporary artist for the 2000s. The reflective “100 Years” has joined “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” as part of the American Songbook and continues to stand the test of time at weddings, birthdays, graduations, memorials, and many a home video. Five For Fighting’s music has also been featured in more than 350 films, television shows, and commercials, including the Oscar-winning The Blind Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Sopranos and the CBS drama, Code Black.
Throughout his multi-decade career, which began when music publisher Carla Berkowitz (now his wife of 25 years) discerned him in a dive bar, Ondrasik has been involved in multiple charity efforts. Along with supporting the troops via multiple USO tours, Ondrasik created “The CD For the Troops” project with song and comedy compilations featuring artists like Billy Joel, Melissa Ethridge, Chris Rock, and others, gifting more than one million CDs to veterans and military families. John has also been deeply involved with the ALS charity “Augie’s Quest.”
While he may not be as obsessive as he once was — writing upwards of dozens of songs per month, Ondrasik is more focused today. He knows who he is, as an artist and as a human being. His is a career molded by light and darkness. At one point, he’d been looked over by every publishing house and label out there. At another, he had one of the biggest songs in the world. Those extremes give a person perspective.
“I’ve been incredibly blessed,” he says. “I still pinch myself.”
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Wow, this sounds like an incredible show!
Would love to finally check them out!
Sounds like a great night of music. Free tickets please!
You had me at five for fighting! Would love to see.
Fan for decades.
I LOVE five for fighting. The last time I was able to see them live was in Chicago over 10 years ago, and it would be great to have another opportunity.
Would love to see him with string quartet . Fun fact I always thought this was a group of 5 guys until a recent trivia question revealed its only 1. What?!
Would LOVE to go. Their song 100 Years has been symbolic for some family members that have passed, so this would be a beautiful opportunity!
Love a Throwback!
I’ve never seen Five for Fighting live, with a string quartet sounds awesome!!
John Ondrasik can appear alone, with touring musicians, or with a String Quartet. Thanks for the opportunity to see this talented balladeer at my favorite venue, The Aladdin!!
Pick me. Pick me!
Kiss & Hugs
Love you PDX Pipeline!!
Great venue and talent made better with a backup of strings adding depth and warmth.
Yes please!!!
This would be amazing!!
It’s not easy….
Oh wait, sure it is. Just pick me!
I love that they are doing a string quartet.
Love to see him perform with a string quartet
Excellent band. Saw them may years ago and danced all night.
I would so love to go!
I would love to treat a friend to this.
This would be amazing! I saw John once. So good.
This would be the best date night. We love Five for Fighting
Wondrous, smoothly poetic music!! Would love to see this band live 💚✨
Never had the opportunity to see Five For Fighting perform in person. Would love to be there. Thank you for the chance to win!
Superman’s been waiting 100 years for this chance with a string section!!!
That sounds truly beautiful!
Five for Fighting with a String Quartet? Sounds like a perfect date night!
This sounds so cool!
Wow, that show looks incredible! It’d be the perfect date night, and the nostalgia would be amazing. Can’t wait to go!
Would love this.
Fun