Just as Red Butte Garden's summer schedule is released, so is the slate for Deer Valley's outdoor concert series - dubbed the St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights series.

Tickets - at $31 for general admission lawn seating, or $56 for reserved seating - go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. in person at the Eccles Center (1750 Kearns Blvd., at Park City High School), or by calling the box office at 435-655-3114. Tickets go on sale online next Friday.

All shows start at 7 p.m. (except the last one, which starts at 6 p.m.). Here's the slate:

• July 3 - Blood, Sweat & Tears.
• August 2 - Simone with Ryan Shaw.
• August 16 - Madeleine Peyroux and Lucy Wainwright Roche.
• August 29 - Chuck Berry (opening act to be announced).
• September 7 - Robert Earle Keen with Jill Sobule and John Doe.

Labels: Deer Valley

Did the most monumental decision in television since, oh, say Thursday, get made on the slopes of Deer Valley? It's a possibility.

TV mavens - such as my colleague Vince Horiuchi, writing on his Village Vidiot blog - are abuzz about the news that Jay Leno will score a primetime gig on NBC after he bequeaths his seat on "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien in 2009.

Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment (who, presumably, would have a substantial role in this move), was in Utah over the weekend, taking part in the Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest.

One imagines Silverman racking up the wireless minutes brokering this deal on the slopes. One also wonders why, with NBC circling the drain and firing executives, Silverman is wasting his time in Utah.

Labels: Deer Valley, skiing