Phish fans hooked for final shows

COVENTRY, Vt. —  Tickets to what Vermont-based jam band Phish says will be its last shows are sold out, and scalpers are getting as much as $915 for tickets to the festival next month.

Some 70,000 tickets have been sold to the Coventry festival at Newport State Airport and surrounding fields in Coventry, Vt., on Aug. 14-15. Phish will perform both days. Tickets were originally priced $150.

Veronica Lusk, sales representative for Internet broker eSeats.com, said she has about 40 seats left, priced from $515 to $915. “At this price,” she said, “they are going really fast.... I’ve never really seen general admission tickets for this much.”