Allison and I have been fans of Ellis Paul for years. I introduced her to his music and my sister Tara introduced me to his music and we all introduced his music to Eva. So being fans of Ellis Paul’s amazing body of work is a family affair. Because we are such fans we have been to a TON of Ellis Paul concerts. And because I have been blogging for over eight years and blog about this things I do I’ve got a ton of Ellis Paul related posts. So many so that I’ve attracted the eye of Ellis’ management.

I was sent a message yesterday about an upcoming Ellis Paul concert on February 26th at Homegrown Coffeehouse at First Parish Unitarian-Universalist in Needham, MA. Ellis’ manager asked if I would do a giveaway of 1 pair of tickets plus FIVE signed copies of Ellis’ latest album, The Day After Everything Changed. If you are unaware of everything awesome that Ellis is doing, here’s a brief bit of cool stuff.

“Ellis had an AMAZING 2010 – he joined Grammy Award winning country-rock duo Sugarland’s Incredible Machine Tour for a string of dates in September. Ellis then celebrated his 20th anniversary of being a musician in July, with the mayor of Boston proclaiming it “Ellis Paul Day” on July 9th, 2010. Most recently, the Farrelly Brother’s have asked Ellis to come on board one of their movies for a 3rd time, collaborating in a broader role on the score for 2011’s Farrelly release, “Hall Pass”. Slated for a February 25th, 2011 release, “Hall Pass” stars Owen Wilson and Alyssa Milano, and will showcase up to 9 musical tracks off of Ellis’ latest album The Day After Everything Changed, as part of the movie’s score.

In terms of this year, Ellis will be anointing his 2 decades of song via his “20th Anniversary Tour” in 2011, including more dates with Sugarland. ”

Want to hear some of Ellis’ Music, you can get a free download from Ellis’ site with the code on this video.

The Giveaway

There are SIX Ways to Enter (Leave 1 SEPARATE Comment for EACH Entry). Each can be claimed daily.

• 1 Entry – Mandatory to Enter – To enter the contest visit EllisPaul.com. Tell me the name of An Ellis Paul Song. Also tell me if you can go to the show if you win the tickets. Leave this as your FIRST comment.
  (If this is not done your entry will not count)
• 1 Entry – Follow Ellis Paul (@ellispaulsongs) on Twitter
  (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name)
• 1 Entry – Follow BenSpark@BenSpark on Twitter
  (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name)
• 1 Entry – “Like” Ellis Paul on Facebook and tell him I sent you.
  (Leave a Comment with a link to your comment on Facebook.)
• 1 Entry – Subscribe to BenSpark’s Personal Branding BootCamp
  (Leave a comment letting me know you signed up)
• 1 Entry – Tweet about the Giveaway… something like
  @BenSpark has 5 signed @EllisPaulSongs CDs & a pair of tickets to his Feb 26th show in Needham, MA. #Giveaway http://bit.ly/hbyNyl
  (Leave a comment with a link to your tweet. Here is how to get that link to your tweet)

I will not respond to any comments so that I can run the Random.org numbers correctly. Any trackbacks are unapproved while I select the random winner and then re-approved after. Only legitimate entries are counted. You have until 9:00PM EST on February 23, 2011 to enter the contest. The winner will be notified via e-mail and will have 24 hours to reply with a U.S. Mailing address so that we can send the winner their prize. Contest is open to U.S. Only.