Coran Capshaw
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Robert Coran Capshaw is the manager of Dave Matthews Band
, Phish
, Tim McGraw
, Faith Hill
, Alicia Keys
, Robert Randolph & the Family Band
, and Trey Anastasio
, among others. He also is the founder of Red Light Management, co-founder of ATO Records
, former CEO of Musictoday
LLC, and a real estate mogul in Charlottesville, Virginia
. Extensive touring with the Grateful Dead
honed his understanding of the music industry. His early management model adopted emerging technologies, which, combined with tried and true music industry management techniques, have placed him at the top of the industry.
Capshaw has won the Pollstar Magazine Manager of the Year award three times in 2010, 2003 and 1998. He has been nominated for the award eleven times in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Capshaw also won the Music Managers Forum International Manager of the Year award in 2007.
In 2005, The Charlottesville Pavilion, a 3.5 million joint endeavor between the city of Charlottesville and Capshaw opened on the downtown mall. The pavilion serves multiple uses in the community including hosting the Fridays After Five free concert series. Since opening the Pavilion has been renamed the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. The Pavillion has hosted concerts by Earth Wind and Fire, Loretta Lynn, Arcade Fire, The Avett Brothers, Trey Anastasio and an appearance by President Obama.
Capshaw owns the historic Jefferson Theater in downtown Charlottesville, and oversaw an intensive renovation beginning in 2006. The Jefferson Theater reopened on November 27, 2009 after a comprehensive restoration that highlights the theater's vintage architecture while modernizing its facilities. The Jefferson Theater was established in 1912 as a live performance theater that played host to silent movies, vaudeville acts and a historic list of live performers, ranging from Harry Houdini to The Three Stooges.
Capshaw has been heavily involved in real estate development in the Charlottesville area, to both the delight and dismay of local citizens; the addition of the Charlottesville Pavilion and the ongoing plans to add a nine story building near the Downtown Mall
have garnered complaints from Charlottesville natives. Capshaw also owns restaurants on the Downtown Mall, including Blue Light Grill, Positively 4th Street, Mas, Mono Loco, and Ten.
Capshaw also founded sister company Starr Hill Presents to promote live music on a regional and national level. The company has an equity position in large-scale music festivals including the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Wanderlust Yoga and Music Festival.
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
, Phish
Phish
Phish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
, Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...
, Faith Hill
Faith Hill
Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...
, Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...
, Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Robert Randolph and the Family Band is a multicultural American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Other band members include drummer Marcus Randolph, bass guitarist Danyel Morgan, vocalist Lenesha Randolph, keyboardist and guitarist Brett Andrew Haas, and one of...
, and Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...
, among others. He also is the founder of Red Light Management, co-founder of ATO Records
ATO Records
According to Our Records was founded in early 2000 by Dave Matthews , Coran Capshaw, Chris Tetzeli, and Michael McDonald as a division of RCA Records...
, former CEO of Musictoday
Musictoday
Musictoday is an entertainment marketing company located in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded and run by Coran Capshaw, the manager of Dave Matthews Band. Musictoday is a pioneer in presales of concert tickets, by starting fan clubs for hundreds of artists. Musictoday's first fanclub was...
LLC, and a real estate mogul in Charlottesville, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. Extensive touring with the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
honed his understanding of the music industry. His early management model adopted emerging technologies, which, combined with tried and true music industry management techniques, have placed him at the top of the industry.
Capshaw has won the Pollstar Magazine Manager of the Year award three times in 2010, 2003 and 1998. He has been nominated for the award eleven times in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Capshaw also won the Music Managers Forum International Manager of the Year award in 2007.
In 2005, The Charlottesville Pavilion, a 3.5 million joint endeavor between the city of Charlottesville and Capshaw opened on the downtown mall. The pavilion serves multiple uses in the community including hosting the Fridays After Five free concert series. Since opening the Pavilion has been renamed the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. The Pavillion has hosted concerts by Earth Wind and Fire, Loretta Lynn, Arcade Fire, The Avett Brothers, Trey Anastasio and an appearance by President Obama.
Capshaw owns the historic Jefferson Theater in downtown Charlottesville, and oversaw an intensive renovation beginning in 2006. The Jefferson Theater reopened on November 27, 2009 after a comprehensive restoration that highlights the theater's vintage architecture while modernizing its facilities. The Jefferson Theater was established in 1912 as a live performance theater that played host to silent movies, vaudeville acts and a historic list of live performers, ranging from Harry Houdini to The Three Stooges.
Capshaw has been heavily involved in real estate development in the Charlottesville area, to both the delight and dismay of local citizens; the addition of the Charlottesville Pavilion and the ongoing plans to add a nine story building near the Downtown Mall
Downtown Mall
The Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States. Located on Main Street, it runs from 6th St. N.E. to Old Preston Ave., where it extends to Water St., for total length of eight blocks. It is laid with brick and concrete, and home to an...
have garnered complaints from Charlottesville natives. Capshaw also owns restaurants on the Downtown Mall, including Blue Light Grill, Positively 4th Street, Mas, Mono Loco, and Ten.
Capshaw also founded sister company Starr Hill Presents to promote live music on a regional and national level. The company has an equity position in large-scale music festivals including the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Wanderlust Yoga and Music Festival.