Students To Get a Peek at Barenaked

“It’s the perfect time of year, somewhere (not so) far away from here,” for the Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies to appear—fully clothed—on campus. The Harvard Concert Commission announced today that the band will participate in a question-and-answer session on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall.

The event will launch the Harvard LIVE! program co-sponsored by the student-run concert commission and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

The Peter Ivers Visiting Arts Fund is supporting the event. The fund was established in 1983 by the family of Peter S. Ivers '68, a New Wave musician who was bludgeoned to death by an intruder in his Los Angeles apartment.

The concert commission will launch a lottery online this Friday at harvardconcerts.org to allocate seats in the lecture hall. Lottery winners can then purchase tickets for $10.

The Barenaked Ladies released their newest album Sept. 12 and will begin their official U.S. concert tour at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on Oct. 21. But they've already started promoting the album on the road—singing before a crowd of 100,000 at a stock-car racing event in Virginia.

The band's widely-known song "If I Had a Million Dollars" first gained popularity in Canada in the early 1990s—and the band's wish has come true: they've sold more than 10 million records worldwide.

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