The Fifth Annual Misquamicut Music Festival 
Saturday July 25, 2009  5pm

Misquamicut State Beach Atlantic Ave.  Westerly, RI

 
 

 Entertainment

 
Terry Sylvester - Formerly of The Hollies
 
Billy J. Kramer
 
Mike Crandall Band
Professor Harp Band
The Beach Band
Joey Nigrelli
Flav Martin
 

A collection will be taken for "Save the Bay" and "The WARM Center" during the show.

 

 

View a clip from Chris Walsh Production for last year show.

 

 

 

Terry Sylvester 

 

Terry Sylvester was born in Liverpool, England. He was raised in the Allerton area of Liverpool, and lived in the next road to Paul McCartney. He left school just before his 15th birthday and worked for one year as an apprentice panel beater for Peter Harrison, (George 
Harrison's older brother). At 16 he turned pro, & was sharing the stage with the Beatles regularly in and around Liverpool and at the world famous Cavern Club, 
fronting his own group the Escorts. When the Beatles appeared at the Cavern for the last time on the 3rd August 1963, Terry & the Escorts were invited by the 
Beatles to be on the same bill.

Terry's next group The Swinging Blue Jeans had a number of hit records including 'Hippy Hippy 
Shake', 'Good Golly Miss Molly' & 'You're No Good'. From 1966 to 1969 Terry toured the UK and Europe continuously.
In 1968, Graham Nash left the Hollies to form Crosby, Stills, & Nash. Terry was brought in to the group. Terry's first single with the Hollies 'Sorry Suzanne' reached number 3 in the UK charts and established the 
group once again as a top ten hit making act. Terry's first album 'Hollies Sing Dylan' went even further, all the way to number 1. Soon after they recorded 'He 
Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother', with the then unknown session man Elton John playing piano. More hits followed including the follow up single 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top', U.S. number 1 'Long Cool Woman, In A Black Dress', 'Long Dark Road', 'Gasoline Ally Bred', and the 1974 universal classic love song, 'The Air That I Breathe'. 

In 1975 Terry was asked by Alan Parsons to sing the critically acclaimed final song 'To One In Paradise' on The Alan Parsons Project debut album, 'Tales of Mystery And Imagination'.

Terry has been awarded 5 Platinum, 9 Gold, and 6 Silver Discs so far in his career.
 

 

Billy J. Cramer

 

THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING!

Not only were those words shouted by Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride in 1775, but they were also shouted by every D.J in America in 1964. And BILLY J. KRAMER was one of the British artists who stormed American audiences then, and continues to do so.

Born William Howard Ashton, Billy grew up in Liverpool, England, the soon to be Mecca of popular music of the 1960's. Billy's performances at local rock clubs around Liverpool soon brought him to the attention of Brian Epstein. Acknowledging Billy's pop-idol potential, Brian set out to add Billy to his growing managerial empire, which already included The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers.   

Upon handing Billy a tape of what was to become the first in a succession of smash hits written especially for him by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. With this tune, Billy and his back-up group, The Dakotas, claimed the #1 chart spot in England, toppling the Beatles themselves.

The Lennon & McCartney compositions, "I'll Keep You Satisfied", "From A Window", "I Call Your Name" and "Bad To Me" all became international million sellers for Billy, and appearances on the T.V. shows Shindig!, Hullabaloo and The Ed Sullivan Show secured Billy a place in Rock and Roll history.

Although Billy greatly appreciated the songs given to him by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he decided to follow the chart topping "Bad To Me" with a song written by American songwriters Mort Schuman and John Leslie McFarland. Billy's insight proved correct as "Little Children" became his biggest selling worldwide hit.

Billy's international momentum has continued through the years will sellout concert appearances and standing ovations.

www.billyjkramer.com

 

Previous Music Festivals

 

The 2008 Music Festival

The Beach Band
Flav Martin
Far Off Place
Joey Nigrelli
Terry Sylvester - Formerly of the Hollies
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Jefferson Starship 

The 2007 Music Festival

The Beach Band
Wayne Holmes
Flav Martin
Al Copley, 2 time Grammy Nominee 
Ian Mitchell's Bay City Rollers:  Rocked the beach with the hit's "I Only Wanna Be With You" and "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night" 
Denny Laine, former leader of the Moody Blues and bandmate of Paul McCartney in Wings played his #1 smash Moody's song "Go Now" and Wings classics "Band On The Run" and "Live and Let Die." 
Eric Burdon and the Animals took the stage to thunderous applause and delivered all the hits with the finale "House Of The Rising Sun"

The 2006 Music Festival

The Beach Bums
Chad and Jeremy: The great British Pop duo that first rose to fame in the 1960's with hits like "Yesterday's Gone" and "Summer Song" received a standing ovation for their performance
Anthony Fedorov: Runner up on Season 4 of American Idol. Anthony acted as emcee with festival founder Caswell Cooke and sang several great songs for his adoring fans!
The Jan and Dean Show: Dean Torrence rocked the beach with Surf City, The Little Old Lady From Pasedena and the finale of "Barbara Ann" which even featured the Governor and first lady of RI joining in!

The 2005 Music Festival 

Flav Martin
The Beach Bums
The Pete Best Band: Pete Best, the original drummer for the Beatles 1960-62 brought all the early Beatle Hits to Misquamicut
Davy Jones: Davy entertained with all the Monkee favorites including Daydream Believer and I'm A Believer, plus many more! 

 

 

 

Click here for Music Festival Slide Show 1

Click here for Music Festival Slide Show 2

Photos by Granite 1 Hour Photo and Susannah Snowden

 

Davey Jones Video

Misquamicut Commercial

Chad and Jeremy Video

Please visit www.misquamicut.org for the complete listing of this summer's event.

 

 

Sponsors

Coca Cola Bottling Company of Southeastern New England

Hospitality Tent by: Newport Federal Savings Bank

 

Gold Sponsors

Fredrick B. Whittemore

NewportFed Savings Bank

Charles M. Royce

102.3 THE WOLF

 

Silver Sponsors

Sun Publishing

The Washington Trust Company

Stanton Realty

Stadium Sports Bar

Seafood Haven

Purple Ape

Sand Castle Beach Front Inn

Clough Family

Health Strategies Consulting

The Connecticut Defenders

 

Bronze Sponsors

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southeastern New England

Westerly Community Credit Union

Mohegan Sun Casino

Andrea Resort Hotel

Tim Horton's

Westerly Pawcatuck Chamber of Commerce

Bob’s Discount Furniture

 

 

Friends

WBLQ-Chris DiPaola

Warehouse Beer-Wine-Liquor

Orsinger and Nardone

Louis Panciera

South County Tourism Council

Anchor Insulation

Little Mermaids and Alfies Beach Store

Steve Hartford

 

Special Thanks

Cherenzia and Associates

Durante Machine

DiPrete Engineering

Grandview B & B

The Nadolny Family

Agfa Healthcare

Nigrelli's Jewelry

Inn at Mystic

 

 

Thanks to The Department of Environmental Management, Division of Parks and Recreation, the Westerly Police Department, Town of Westerly, Misquamicut Fire Department and to Governor Donald Carcieri. Fireworks are in honor of Governor's Bay Day.

Misquamicut Music Festival presented by the 

Misquamicut Business Association