U.S. Senator John Cornyn invited a Taylor Swift fan, and those working in the entertainment industry, to be part of a panel on Friday, May 19 at the Moody Center."Going through, like, crushes in elementary school, and you break up, and you think it's a big deal, and you listen to Taylor Swift," said Testone, who was born and raised in Austin. "It’s just such a huge part of our lives.
"There were incredibly long wait lists if you could even get on them," said Testone, who didn’t end up getting a ticket. "It was hard to know even what the real tickets were, and then once you finally could get tickets, the only thing you could get was resale, and then the price was a huge difference. "
Other panelists included country music artist Robert Earl Keen, Chris Almendarez, president of Round Rock Express, Andy Loughnane, president of Austin FC, Drew Martin, executive senior associate athletic director for external affairs at UT Austin, and Michael Owens, VP of programming at Oak View Group .