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DiCesare Engler Productions was a Pittsburgh-based concert promotion firm. [1] [2] [3] [4]The company was formed in late 1973 when Pat DiCesare, who was the dominant concert promoter in the region, [5] chose Pittsburgh native Rich Engler to form a new partnership. [6]
This announcement came only days after Pace Concerts had been sold to SFX. Engler would stay with the company and become the CEO of DiCesare-Engler/SFX. DiCesare, then 60 years old, elected to step away from the new business. This marked the end of an almost 25-year partnership between Pat DiCesare and Rich Engler. [58]
Bob Marley's final show, at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, felt different and more emotional, concert promoter Rich Engler recalls.
On May 25, 2009, Brian Drusky, a former DiCesare-Engler employee who was laid off by Live Nation in 2005, promoted the first concert at the new amphitheatre. [12] The new venue seated up to 6,000 and was renamed to "The Amphitheatre at Station Square". A year later, the venue was known as the "Trib Total Media Amphitheatre". [13]
In 1977, DiCesare Engler Productions bought the theater. September 23, 1978, Frank Zappa played two sets at the Stanley Theatre. Live rock and roll concerts presented through 1984. The Grateful Dead performed four shows at the venue, and reggae musician Bob Marley performed his last live concert there in 1980, before his death in 1981. [6]
The first rock concert at the arena was emceed by Porky Chedwick on May 11, 1962, as a DiCesare Engler production and featured Jackie Wilson, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Castelles, Jerry Butler, The Flamingos, The Angels, The Blue-Belles, and The Skyliners. [29]
His friend and college roommate Pat DiCesare (future president of DiCesare Engler Productions) [5] had made a name for himself by promoting major concert events in Western Pennsylvania. [6] Vaccaro wanted to do a basketball tournament in the Pittsburgh area, and asked DiCesare if he had interest in promoting the event.
The 2,500 people gathered for the annual benefit concert Friday definitely knew their Grateful Dead, the revolutionary San Francisco-birthed jam band honored as 2025’s MusiCares Persons of the Year.