It’s April already and that means it’s time to announce more 2011 Music Circus shows! Here’s what you can look forward to…
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South Shore Living magazine is taking votes for their 2011 Best Of issue and we want to be one of the winners!
You can vote on everything from restaurants and bars to stores and wedding spots to golf courses and PERFORMING ARTS VENUES (that’s us!). We were named the best Performing Arts Venue in the 2008 and 2010 surveys and we want to keep it going!
Make sure you visit South Shore Living’s website to cast your votes and let your favorite places on the South Shore know you appreciate them!
-JS
The March 2011 show announcement is out and tickets are on sale NOW to club members! If you want the best seats first, JOIN THE CLUB!
NEWLY ANNOUNCED SHOWS:
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The original Four Tops formed in 1954 and the starting line up for The Temptations hit the scene in 1961. Since then both groups have had 40 Top 100 hits, careers that have spanned decades, and enough original recording members to still use the famous band names (it’s actually a state law in Massachusetts).
Being on the music scene at mostly the same time, The Temptations and The Four Tops were naturally competing for record sales, radio play, and concert-goers – but now they regularly tour together. This partnership came about in the 1980s when both groups appeared in a televised Battle of the Bands … and I just found footage of that event!
The event also featured other popular doo-wop groups, but The Temtpations and The Four Tops are clearly the stars (and quite funny). They show up about 4 minutes in. (Also, I’m pretty sure that’s Bill Cosby MCing.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXi-hIdYME&feature=related
- JS
Bowzer (of Sha Na Na) will be bringing his amazing doo-wop show back to the Music Circus this summer, but before that he’ll be co-hosting a series of Doo-Wop shows on PBS this month!
The series is called “MY MUSIC: ROCK, POP, AND DOO-WOP” and will highlight music made famous in the 1960s. Bowzer will be co-hosting the series (which premieres this Saturday, March 5!) with Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes. The show will feature live performances from Doo-Wop legends as well as “lost footage from archives around the world that hasn’t been seen since originally aired,” according to the show’s executive producer. At lease 20 artists are slatted to be included.
Read more about “MY MUSIC: ROCK, POP, AND DOO-WOP” in this Huffington Post piece (it’s all the way at the bottom) and check your local PBS listings and make sure you don’t miss it!
Until then, here’s a little taste of Bowzer’s 2010 show to get you excited!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHi92JZoOds
- JS
