Sixty-one years after forming in London, England, The Who (www.thewho.com) will perform the first show of its The Song Is Over: North American Farewell Tour at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise on August 16. It’s what amounts to a local dress rehearsal, something touring acts sometimes do as beachside tuneups in our cylindrical coastal state, where the road toward the … [Read more...]
Bluegrass wizards The HillBenders give Duncan crowd an exciting ‘Tommy’
Pete Townshend has proven a musical visionary since he penned The Who’s first of two rock opera releases, Tommy, in 1969 (the other being Quadrophenia, in 1973), but could the guitarist/vocalist have foreseen Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry, the 2015 Compass Records release by Springfield, Mo.-based quintet The HillBenders? Perhaps. Both the group’s latest recording and its … [Read more...]
Group offers bluegrass version of Who’s ‘Tommy’ at the Duncan
By Dale King The rock opera Tommy, guitarist Pete Townshend’s high-powered musical about a “deaf, dumb and blind kid” who becomes a “pinball wizard” despite his sensory and other personal obstacles, stops by the Duncan Theatre on the Lake Worth campus of Palm Beach State College at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The show will be performed in its 75-minute entirety, but in a completely … [Read more...]