Jason Mraz Tickets - Giving Gratitude To San Diegans

Jason Mraz thanked fans in his native San Diego for helping buy enough tickets to

sell out his concert, and he also helped to donate funds to his favorite nonprofit organizations: San Diego Youth Services, the Surfrider Foundation and VH1's Save the Music. It probably helped too that the Jason Mraz tickets were only $1.

The concert sold out in 15 minutes and took place on Sunday, Oct. 11 at the Chula Vista Cricket Wireless Amphitheater. While the weather reminded local southern Californians that it is finally fall, the warmth of the Gratitude Cafe tour was enough to keep fans of Mraz online until nearly 10 pm. For the former Oceanside resident, the chance to finish up his tour in the 619 area code was a real treat and made the free of service charge ticket price even sweeter.

"It's a 'pay what you want' show experience," he said to the San Diego Union Tribune just a few days before tickets went on sale. "If you just want to cruise with your family and friends, hear the music and participate in no other way, then come sit on the grass. It's absolutely free. For reserved seats, tickets are $1 each, with no service fees." Mraz even offered up a bit more for those with some more spending cash - $75 VIP seats and an auction for 30 pairs of the best seats in the house, where fans were able to dance around on stage while Mraz played some of his infectious tunes. Those lucky enough to stick around for the encore even enjoyed a hoola-hooping contest, as a few dozen brightly colored hoops were brought out for the last song of the evening.

While the concert began early at 6pm with openers Bushwalla and Brett Dennen warming up the stage for Mraz, the headliner still played well into the evening. Part of the repertoire was, of course, "I'm Yours," the Billboard Hot 100 single that has been at the top of the charts for a record breaking 77 weeks, along with the duet "Lucky," "Make it Mine," "Butterfly" and several covers. The tour is promoting last year's We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things, his best seller so far with 3.2 million copies sold that has seen 350,000 fans enjoying his singing, dancing and 'stealing' this year alone.

The concert is named after one of the places where it all got started, a Bay Area organic restaurant chain named Cafe Gratitude that had a 'gratitude bowl,' a heaping bowl of warm food that could be paid with whatever you had - from nothing to a few dollars. "It was a way to practice generosity and humility, and get a big, hearty bowl of food," he said. The idea for a tour came out of this restaurant and its manager, who joined Mraz on stage for the single "Lucky," which was recorded with Colbie Caillat for the album.

The goof ball that started out singing songs like "Geek in the Pink" has come a long way, giving up advice to girls in Cosmopolitan Magazine to singing sexually explicit disguised material (take a closer look at the lyrics to "Butterfly"), and he is totally thankful for it.

by: Brent Warnken

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