By Dale King Monkee-mania gripped Boca Raton for a couple of hours last Saturday night. The surviving three members of the Monkees — the put-together pop quartet assembled by NBC executives in the mid-1960s for a TV show designed to capitalize on the success of the Beatles flick, A Hard Day’s Night, are still performing 47 years later. The Mizner Park Amphitheater concert … [Read more...]
Showy Amadeus rocks Mizner audience at Boca Fest
As he strolled in from offstage, he looked for all the world like a kid on Christmas morning, dressed in gear that might have been raided from three or four different gifts, gazing around with wide-eyed wonder at the festive magic before him. But he was Amadeus Leopold, the young violinist born 26 years ago in Seoul as Han-bin Yoo, a greatly gifted prodigy and Itzhak Perlman … [Read more...]
Raitt mesmerizes big audience at Mizner show
Sunday, Oct. 21, was particularly long for Bonnie Raitt. The day before she and her band had headlined Magnoliafest in Live Oak, and she was hoping for a nice rest in Boca Raton before her show at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Unfortunately for Raitt, the presidential debate had claimed every room in the neighborhood, so as she noted, they found a hotel “farther up the beach.” … [Read more...]