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Regina Spektor performs at a concert. Spektor will perform at Brandeis in October. Branimir Kvartuc/The Associated Press

When the Student Events concert-planning committee was unable to book Guster and Matisyahu for their fall concert, the group turned to Facebook for ideas. According to one of the concert coordinators Edana Appel, Student Events used Facebook to determine which artists are most popular among Brandeis students. The ultimate result of their Facebook combing? Student Events announced this past Sunday that this fall's Student Events concert will feature Regina Spektor, on Saturday, October 13.

Though Matisyahu was the committee's "real goal," Appel says, "There are more people at Brandeis that have Regina Spektor listed under their 'favorite music' than Matisyahu." Spektor was rumored to have been considered for a Student?Events concert last year; however, those fall concerts featured Broken Social Scene and Flogging Molly, and in the spring, The Wailers and Reel?Big Fish.

The Russian-born indie chanteuse is also performing on Friday, October 12 at the Orpheum in Boston. Spektor's piano-driven brand of anti-folk music has brought her some considerable success of late. Her song "Fidelity" off her most recent album, Begin to Hope, has garnered some considerable radio play. Opening for Regina Spektor will be One Sun, who is opening for Spektor on her fall tour. The two artists' fee amounts to $35,000-a little more than half of Student Events' budget, Appel said.

The committee looked into bringing other artists, but "it's really such a combination of the right time, the right place, the right venue, the right amount of money," Appel said

"We're going to try to do a lot of special promotional items for the concert because we're really excited for it," she said. There will be a pre-sale party early next week, after which the tickets will cost $4 for the duration of two weeks. Appel estimated that the tickets will then cost $7, until the day of the show, when they will cost $10 at the door. Different rates will apply for outside guests.

The show will take place in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center; doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert will begin at 8.

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