Summer Rock Favorites

Dix Hills Performing Arts Center presents its Summer Rock Music Favorites
featuring live performances of the Music of

The Cars, The Police, Johnny Cash and Pink Floyd
Popular regional artists will recreate the music of top rock bands for a
month of musical magic saluting true innovators across the years

May 20, 2011, Dix Hills, NY --The Dix Hills Performing Arts Center is proud to present its annual Summer Rock Music Favorites from June 17 to July 16, 2011 here at the Center. Live performances will highlight the work of some of the most creative voices of the rock and roll era, from the late Johnny Cash through Pink Floyd’s hypnotic blues strains to the cutting-edge new wave artists of the ‘80s and ‘90s, The Police and The Cars.

On June 17 at 7:30 pm

Talk of the Town recreates the music of The Cars followed by Invisible Sun, recreating the music of The Police. Tickets are $30, $25 and $20. The Cars released six full-length albums and one greatest hits album in a nine year period. Out of that, 16 singles made US Billboard’s Top 50. Some of these songs included: “Drive” (#3), “Shake It Up” (#4), “You Might Think” (#7) and “Let Good Times Roll” (#41).

Talk of the Town, known for recreating the sounds of The Cars and The Pretenders among other 1980s innovators, is comprised of lead vocalist Mary Beth Cronin, with Mike Roberts on guitar, Billy Reatlinger on bass, Cosmos Lo Cricchio on keyboard and vocals, and Jay Scarkey on drums and vocals.

Headed by Sting, the Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first new wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk and reggae music.

Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one in the UK and the US and sold over 8,000,000 copies in the US. The band broke up in 1984, but reunited in early 2007 for a world tour lasting until August 2008.

The Police have sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Invisible Sun is a trio, true to the original music, with David Clark on bass and lead vocals, Gary Gonzalez on drums and Richard Lampese on guitar and vocals.

The Dix HIlls Performing Arts Center will present Project Floyd’s live on-stage recreation of music from Pink Floyd’s classic The Wall album. Tickets are $30, $25 and $20.

Project Floyd faithfully recreates both the sights and sounds of original Pink Floyd shows through both the early Sid Barrett jams and later David Gilmore-dominated music, down to projecting the original Pink Floyd-produced multi-media backgrounds behind many of its songs.

The New York-based band dazzles audiences with its detail-oriented show, creating a Pink Floyd experience to rival the original. Tickets go fast for this popular show, For popular works Pink Floyd has never performed in public, Project Floyd has produced new video.

Lighting and special effects create the circus atmosphere Roger Waters often sought as a means both to entertain and to anonymize individual band members, who boasted they could sell out Madison Square Garden one night and shop unperturbed in a local supermarket the next.

 

On July 16 at 7:30 pm

The Dix HIlls Performing Arts Center will present The Music of Johnny Cash with Long Island guitarist and songwriter Tom Cavanaugh and Walkin’ the Line. Tickets are $30, $25 and $20.

The seven piece band features Cavanaugh as the late Johnny Cash and well-known singer songwriter Christine Vaskas playing the role and music of the late June Carter-Cash, among others. Walkin’ the Line remarkably recreates the music and electrifying stage presence of Johnny Cash’s performances as it spans Cash’s legendary career.