US concert promoter Jon Stoll has died after a period of health problems in a Florida hospital, aged 54. Stoll had a long career in live music, first staging concerts in his teens. He founded Fantasma Productions, which became and remains a significant independent promoter in the US live business, staging concerts across the country, and especially in Southern US cities, working with artists like Harry Connick Jr, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood. He was a vocal member of the wider live industry, and a former president of the US' National Association Of Concert Promoters.
Paying tribute to the Stoll, another US independent promoter, Arny Granat of Jam Productions in Chicago, told Billboard: "Jon Stoll was a believer. He was a man of conviction, vision and integrity. He had personality. He had soul".