On July 16 and 17, 2013, Phish will return to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park for their third twin bill at the summer home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO). The amphitheatre, owned by the ASO parent organization Woodruff Arts Center, features a 7,000 seat fan-shaped roofed pavillion and low-angle lush green lawn that will accommodate an additional 5,000 fans that are in turn encircled by some of the heritage trees that are characteristic of the larger 45-acre park in which the amphitheatre is set. The amphitheatre will be enjoying its sixth summer concert season since opening in May 2008. The Woodruff Arts Center in turn, is completing its 45th year since being established in October 1968 as the Memorial Arts Center in memory of over 100 of Atlanta’s arts and civic leaders lost in a June 1962 crash on takeoff of Air France Flight 007 (a Boeing 707 named The Chateau de Sully) as it departed Orly, France. This crash, represented the first civilian jet disaster with greater than 100 deaths (130 total); making it the worst single plane disaster at that time, the third worst air disaster overall through 1962, and the catalyst that changed Atlanta’s modern cultural history forever.

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