How to get free tickets to see Jon Stevens in concert at The Star Gold Coast during blues festival

THE Star Gold Coast will celebrate one of Australia’s largest free music festivals with a free Jon Stevens concert during this year’s Blues on Broadbeach festival.

THE Star Gold Coast will celebrate one of Australia’s largest free music festivals with a free Jon Stevens concert during this year’s Blues on Broadbeach festival.

First-release tickets for the Noiseworks frontman’s free concert in The Star theatre on May 18 will be released to the public next week.

The show follows full houses for free concerts by Diesel in 2016 and Russell Morris last year as part of the four-day festival.

Another full house is expected for Stevens’ show, tickets for which are only available for collection in person at the The Star box office.

Jon Stevens will play two free shows on the Gold Coast this month.

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The first release of tickets will be available from 9am on Friday, May 11, until the allocation is exhausted.

The second and final release of tickets — designed to give festival visitors from interstate and overseas the chance to secure a seat for Stevens’ show. — will be available from 9am on Friday, May 18, until the allocation is exhausted.

Crowds at the 2017 Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival. Picture: Supplied.

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A free feast of music in the streets and venues of Broadbeach from May 17-20, this year’s Blues on Broadbeach line-up also boasts US guitar star Robert Cray and his band, The Screaming Jets, Backsliders and Lloyd Spiegel.

The Star Queensland managing director Geoff Hogg said Blues on Broadbeach was “a fantastic driver of tourism” to the Gold Coast during May.

“It injected over $20 million into the economy last year, with over 161,000 people in

attendance,” he said.

Stevens will be supported by Southern Avenue, from Memphis.

Aussie rock singer Jon Stevens will play a free ticketed show at The Star Gold Coast during Blues on Broadbeach. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

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“This boosts the local economy and supports local business which is extremely

important.”

A Blues on Broadbeach shuttle bus jointly presented by The Star Gold Coast and Pacific Fair

Shopping Centre will ferry festivalgoers to and from the properties and the main festival precinct.

Stevens’ show at The Star is one of two free gigs he’ll play on the Coast this month — he’ll also headline the lineup on the main stage at this weekend’s Surfers Paradise LIVE festival on Sunday from 7.30pm.