Donald "Don" LAW

Don Law

Don's Updated Autobiography (2021)

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Don Law is President of Live Nation – New England. Live Nation is the world’s leading producer and presenter of live entertainment. Don served as CEO and Chairman of Clear Channel Music from 2002 – 2005 now known as Live Nation.

Don is the founder of the Xfinity Center (formerly known as the Great Woods Center) in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Today, the Xfinity Center is one of the premier performance amphitheaters in the United States and was awarded “Top Amphitheater in the United States” in both 2008 and 2009 in Billboard Magazine. The Xfinity Center (then named the Comcast Center) was also awarded “Top Amphitheater of the Decade” by the same publication.

In July of 1999, the 5,000 seat Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion opened at its new location on Boston Harbor, replacing the slightly smaller Harborlights Pavilion which Don founded in 1994 on the Boston waterfront.

Don co-founded New England Express Ticketing (NEXT), the world’s first fully automated, high-volume reserved-seat ticketing system. NEXT Ticketing provided exclusive ticketing services to a diverse group of clients including The Museum of Fine Arts and The Boston Red Sox. He was also founder and managing partner of Precision Media, a broadcasting company that owned and operated five radio stations in New England, including KISS (WKSS) in Hartford, CT, later sold to SFX Broadcasting. In addition, he co-founded and served as inaugural chairman of the North American Concert Promoter Association, an international trade association of the largest talent buyers in North America.

In 2009, Don, along with friend David Mugar, purchased the historic Boston Opera House, home to Broadway Across America and the Boston Ballet. At the same time he also bought back interests in the Orpheum Theater, The Paradise, Brighton Music Hall and the Boston House of Blues.

Over the past three decades, he has been active in numerous non-profit and charitable causes,

such as Stop Handgun Violence, Action for Boston Community Development, Kids at Risk,

Conservation Law Foundation and the AIDS Action Committee. Don has also been instrumental in the fundraising efforts of the Police Athletic League of Boston, and the Walden Woods Project.

Don also served as a Trustee for the Metropolitan Center (later renamed the Wang/Boch Center), the Massachusetts Special Olympics, and the New England Conservatory of Music. In November of 1993, Don was the recipient of the Industry Recognition Award by Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), the largest anti-poverty agency in New England. In 1999, Don received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Emerson College. And in 1995. he was awarded a Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award. With tributes from James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Plant and others, Don was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Pollstar Convention in 2017 in Los Angeles.

Don and his wife, Sara Molyneaux, live in Dover, Massachusetts and have two sons, Chris and Sam.