Ludacris to perform for Little 500

Soulja Boy already has Bloomington on his calendar, and Ludacris has now joined him.

Ludacris will give a concert at 8:30 p.m. April 23 behind Alpha Tau Omega and Acacia fraternities during Little 500 week. The concert proceeds will benefit IU Dance Marathon, which supports the Ryan White Infectious Disease Center at Riley Children’s Hospital, said Chris Myers, junior and director of fundraising for IUDM.

“The dance marathon would like to get as much monetary support as possible,” Myers said. “ATO and Acacia are looking forward to supporting IUDM.”

ATO representative Clay Gordon, sophomore, who is also part of the Vibe promotions company that signed the contract with Ludacris, said tickets will be sold throughout campus, but the places and dates of ticket sales are tentative.

“IUDM will sell tickets, and tickets will probably be sold at Gresham, Ballantine (and) the Union,” he said. “People in big lecture halls will probably get up and sell them.”

President of Acacia and junior Pat Rodgers said it has been a good experience working with IUDM and ATO.

“The biggest thing is that both houses have a lot of marathon participants,” he said. “It’s clear that IUDM is one of the biggest supporters for Riley, and we always want to help out as much as we can.”

Rogers said it was fairly easy to contact Ludacris.

“We had a few other offers, but we found out we could get Ludacris, and we had a set contract with him that wouldn’t change,” he said. “Ludacris was definitely our first
choice.”

He said he was glad to collaborate with Acacia on the project as well.

“We’ve done a bunch of concerts in the past, and last year there were a few things that didn’t work out between the two houses,” Rogers said. “There’s something that’s becoming a tradition of Little 500, which is bringing big people to the IU campus.”