Hip-hop artist Ice Cube with Fort Hall Business Council Chairman
Devon Boyer.
FORT HALL — Fort Hall Business Council Chairman Devon Boyer and Shoshone-Bannock Casino CEO Ray Barlow greeted Ice Cube and his entourage with a cultural welcome and gift July 23 at the sold out concert.
Ice Cube was presented a beaded wallet that had a Sacajawea dollar coin inside and a Shoshone-Bannock logo beaded medallion from the Donzia Gift Shop according to a Public Affairs press release.
Boyer said he was pleased to meet and briefly talk with Ice Cube to welcome to the Fort Hall Reservation. He also gave the entertainer a blanket and bag from Derek No-Sun Brown War Medicine merchandise and invited him to again visit Fort Hall. Ice Cube said he would love to return.
Barlow said they sold over 2,900 tickets that kept the staff busy. They hired an additional 27 people at a hiring event the week prior to the concert. “Overall our property did very well in food sales and we will work on improving thigns that we noticed after the fact. But overall we are very satisfied with how well the concert went.”
Boyer and Barlow agreed that Ice Cube and his staff were very friendly to everyone at the hotel and provided a few autographs. FHBC member Roland Marshall was at the hotel earlier that day with a beaded Raiders medallion that Ice Cube autographed after one of the singer’s staff saw the beadwork and was impressed. “I was surprised Ice Cube signed it,” he said.