Entertainment
Cumberland County College to present Snake Brothers concert
Written by Staff Reports Tuesday, May 21, 2013 09:46 am
Cumberland County College will present “Down Jersey: The Snakes Plus One” 3 p.m. Sunday, June 2 at in the Guaracini Performing Arts Center, Sherman Avenue and College Drive in Vineland.
The Snake Brothers and series host Jim Albertson will come center stage to lead the audience in the singing of folk songs and songs of the sea – many from the South Jersey region.
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Peter Nero and the Philly Pops return for Memorial Day weekend concert
Written by Staff Reports Monday, May 13, 2013 12:00 am
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops will return to Cape May Convention Hall on Memorial Day weekend for their second annual engagement here. The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, May 25.
Nero, a two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, is the music director of the one-of-a-kind orchestra, which performs music from classics to big band and from Broadway to rock ’n’ roll with a playful sophistication.
Concerts run approximately two and a half hours with a 15- to 20-minute intermission.
Street parking is available around Convention Hall, and there will be free trolley service to and from the Cape May Elementary School on Lafayette Street.
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Avalon PAC opens season with Irish rock band Blackthorn
Written by Staff Reports Saturday, May 11, 2013 01:49 pm
The Avalon Performing Arts Council will open the summer season Saturday, June 1 with Blackthorn, a popular Philadelphia-based group whose original sounds focus on the harmonies of their Irish roots.
The group, which this year celebrates more than 20 years at the forefront of the Philadelphia music scene, has evolved as a “different” kind of Irish band. Their music pays homage to the influences of their past, while at the same time being contemporary peppered with rock ’n’ roll.
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Reed Waddle gets some sand back in his shoes
Last Updated on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:02 am Written by Christie Rotondo Saturday, July 21, 2012 04:43 pm
Wildwood’s got a case of the blues this summer.
Reed Waddle, a contemporary singer-songwriter with a bluesy-rock sound, will be playing 9 p.m. Sunday nights at the Oceanic Hotel in Wildwood through Labor Day.
“My music is pretty mellow, so in some places I would not be the ideal fit, but the people here seem to enjoy it,” the singer said Thursday in a telephone interview.
Waddle is a native of Destin, Fla., who has romped through Boston and New York City, winning the grand prize at the New YorkSongwriters Circle. He was a finalist in the American Idol Songwriter Competition, and in June he took home the grand prize at the troubadour competition at 39th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado.
Bay-Atlantic Symphony opens ‘Symphony by the Sea’ series with music by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius
Written by Staff Reports Tuesday, July 17, 2012 04:29 pm
The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will present an evening of bold, romantic music by musical giants of Russia and Finland when it opens the “Symphony by the Sea” summer series of concerts sponsored by the Avalon Free Public Library 7 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at the Avalon Elementary School, 235 32nd St.
The first of two concerts conducted by Bay-Atlantic Symphony Music Director Jed Gaylin will feature one today’s of the great violin virtuosi.
The program, “Russian to the Finnish!” will open with one of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s great orchestral showpieces, Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, Op. 18, a lush yet powerfully romantic musical depiction of William Shakespeare’s immortal story of love and tragedy.
From the pen of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, listeners will hear the Karelia Suite, Op. 11, written for a historical pageant to be given by students of the University of Helsinki in Viipuri, Karelia. The concert will conclude with Sibelius’ rugged yet romantic Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 featuring renowned Japanese-American violinist Ryu Goto as the soloist.
Doo-wop tour takes riders back to the ’50s
Last Updated on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 09:10 pm Written by Staff Reports Thursday, June 28, 2012 01:41 pm
THE WILDWOODS -- The Doo Wop Back to the '50s Tour is a nighttime bus tour that showcases the wacky doo-wop architecture that made the Wildwoods famous.
The tour will take riders past examples showing the neon lighting, boomerang-shaped rooflines, tiki thatching and plastic palms and other architectural elements characteristic of the doo-wop style of the 1950s and ’60s.
According to the Doo Wop Preservation League, the island’s 1950s-era motels, diners, restaurants and vintage signs comprise the largest collection of mid-century doo-wop resort architecture in the United States.
Morey’s opens 2 new water attractions
Written by Christie Rotondo Friday, June 22, 2012 02:44 pm
Morey’s Piers has opened two new water attractions this summer.
The lazy river at Raging Waters has been renovated, and a six-lane racer slide has been added to Ocean Oasis.
“We’re in the entertainment business and we need to deliver freshness in our parks,” Jack Morey, executive vice president of Morey’s Piers said. “So we thought it best to make over the water parks.”
Adventure River is the new name given to the revamped 1,000-foot lazy river, which now has a frontier look to it. There are fallen trees, rocks, grottos, geysers and benches all along the river. Morey said larger decorations around the river are based on “wreckers” – ships that had washed up onto the Jersey shore that the locals would turn into homes.
“We designed it so it looks as if people are living and working there,” Morey said.
As part of the new theme, Morey said the “back of the house” – the river’s filtration pipes – are now on display. He said these pipes became part of the attraction to solve a problem with spacing in the park.
“We took a challenge and turned it into an opportunity to display something in a whimsical but truthful way,” Morey said.
The pipes are identified with kid-friendly labels, for example the backwash line reads “Icky yucky water on the way to the MUA,” Morey said.