> In conjunction with Chicago’s WUSN-FM99.5, America’s Country Station, Moose International is presenting an open-to-the-public, free outdoor concert by country music star Neal McCoy, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 30, on the stage of the magnificent Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s spectacular new Millennium Park.

McCoy will headline the Moose Convention Extravaganza--to which Moose Convention registrants will be provided special “wristband” ticketing to enjoy up-front, reserved seating in the 4,100 armchair seats nearest the stage. The remaining lawn-seating area will accommodate up to 7,000 more, and all music lovers will be invited to spread out a blanket and enjoy.

Moose International is opening this Neal McCoy appearance free to nonmembers, as part of the fraternity’s outreach efforts to raise public awareness, in the Chicago area and beyond, of its endeavors on behalf of young people at its 1,000-acre Mooseheart Child City & School located 40 miles west of Chicago.

Moose Convention attendees will enjoy preferred upfront seating to see Neal McCoy in the magnficent Pritzker Pavilion.

The Pritzker Pavilion’s ultramodern overhead-grid-speaker system makes it the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue in the U.S.--which will help make for a high-quality concert experience.

Neal McCoy, twice selected TNN’s Country Entertainer of the Year, has produced three platinum albums and one gold album among his ten CD releases over the last 15 years. His hit songs include “Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On,” “Now I Pray For Rain,” “No Doubt About It,” “You Gotta Love That,” “The Shake,” and “Wink.”

For Moose members attending the 2006 International Convention from all over North America, it will be our third such meeting headquartered on either side of the picturesque Chicago River just east of Michigan Avenue at the Hyatt Regency and Sheraton Plaza Hotels (the 2000 and 2003 Conventions were also conducted at these venues)--but it will be our first time to be able to enjoy the natural and architectural beauty of 24-acre Millennium Park, which opened to rave reviews in summer 2004.

Members are reminded that the Pritzker Pavilion, and all of Millennium Park, is a strictly enforced NO-SMOKING area.

Click here for a tentative program