For Immediate Release:

Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival

Coming to the Twin Cities

A live family concert experience with Disney characters and melodies from your favorite blockbuster movies

(Friday, May 9, 2014) Mickey Mouse and his band of friends including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, will be performing in a music mash-up of mega proportions when Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival debuts at Target Center in Minneapolis for two performances on October 12. Concert goers will hear greatest hits from the blockbuster movies, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Disney/Pixars Toy Story remixed to rock, pop, reggae, hip-hop, jazz and country, among other jams. Produced by Feld Entertainment, Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival strives to be the biggest concert experience to hit live family entertainment. Tickets go on sale to the public on Tuesday, May 27.

Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival, featuring an all star line-up of more than 25 Disney characters, begins with audiences watching a state-of-the-art video projection of the frenzy backstage which spills onto the stage as Mickey welcomes guests to his concert tour. Soon thereafter, they will be transported to a new world of hip hop beats, dizzying acrobatics, flying carpets and magical transformations with Aladdin, Jasmine and Genie. Underwater is where the crowd will meet up with Ariel, Sebastian and their nautical pals to groove to the reggae rhythm. And, family and friends will stomp to the beat as Woody, Buzz and Jessie teach them how to boogie rodeo-style.

One song can touch millions of people around the world and Disney has been at the beat of this concept for years by making music a main ingredient of storytelling, said Producer and CEO of Feld Entertainment Kenneth Feld. In Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival we are celebrating with the Disney characters to a soundtrack of the latest sounds and chart-topping hits. We want our guests to walk away with lasting memories and singing these unforgettable melodies long after they leave the show.

The father-daughter production team, Kenneth Feld and Alana Feld, has hand selected award-winning creative talents whose credits span from working with Madonna to winning a Latin Grammy^® Award:

• Director/Choreographer Fred Tallaksen Award-winning choreographer of Madonnas Sorry video and the finale of her Confessions World Tour; in 2008, earned a Latin Grammy^® in the Best Video category for Juaness Me Enamora; has choreographed for many TV shows, including Modern Family, Outsourced and Wizards of Waverly Place; skating consultant for Austin Powers III-Goldmember; and directed and choreographed for Disneys Phineas and Ferb:The Best LIVE Tour Ever!
• Writer Jeremy Desmons credits include The Girl in the Frame, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie & Other Storybooks and Curious George Live!. He received the 2007 Kleban Award for excellence in Musical Theatre Bookwriting, and is also a recipient of the Dramatists Guilds Jonathan Larson Fellowship
• Scenic Designer Rick Papineau Vice President of Scenic Elements at Feld Entertainment; veteran designer who creates props, scenic elements and special effects for all of the companys touring shows
• Costume Designer Cynthia Nordstrom Designed costumes for more than 15 original dance shows in Downtown Disney; designed costumes for Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy; Disneys Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever! and Disney On Ice presents Rockin Ever After
• Lighting Designer Sam Doty Assisted in the building and planning of every Feld Entertainment show since 2006, including Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy, Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival and multiple editions of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey^® circus
• Music Director Stan Beard has arranged and written the musical score for numerous Disney On Ice productions, and has worked in the recording studio with such luminaries as Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra

Event: Disney Live! Mickeys Music Festival

Venue: Target Center, 600 First Avenue North, Minneapolis

Show Date & Time: Sunday, October 12 at 1p.m. & 4 p.m.

Ticket Prices: Tickets start at $20

On Sale: Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, May 27 at 10am at Target Centers Box Office, online at TargetCenter.com, AXS.com or call 888.9.AXS.TIX

Publicity Contact: Molly Steinke, Nemer Fieger, 612-309-1677, molly@nemerfieger.com

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