Stage Talk with Rick Koster
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The only Sixties Show you’ll ever need
We enlisted the Garde’s accounting and IT departments to come up with the precise number of acts on tour in the world RIGHT NOW playing music from the 1960s.
It took them a while — and these are SMART people — but, including a few hundred-thousand Beatles and/or Stones tribute bands alone, there are currently has over four million music groups that make a living playing “sixties music” in one form or another.
Throwing in some overtime pay, the next assignment for Garde professionals — adding input from the creative and booking folks — was to develop an algorithm to determine the BEST possible event celebrating that immortal decade.
The answer:
The Sixties Show!
Yep, the very one playing the Garde at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 1.
This is a band of veteran session and performance musicians — including touring members of The Who, John Fogerty’s band and the Rascals — whose creative passion is to replicate a broad and representative array of songs and artists from the 1960s.
But that’s just part of the quality factor. The live sounds are enriched by an emotionally mesmerizing mass media presentation that captures the unequaled swirl of social, cultural, historical and political movements that helped define the era and inspired the music itself!
The Sixties Show, which has sold out Old Saybrook’s Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 16 times and is headed for Broadway, is THE conceptual production you need to see — whether you lived the sixties in real time or simply love the music and wonder what it was really like to be there.