A week after the roar of the crowd has died, Oregon Jamboree manager Peter LaPonte said the 2003 event “was better than I had hoped for…it will be a hard one to beat.”
Alan Jackson’s show on Friday, August 1, set the tone for the three-day event, attracting a record 9,000-plus fans and turning the ball loose for a highly-profitable show.
“We would have to hand-count tickets but we know there were more than 9,000…