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Maggie's Guitar perform Summer Of Love concert
Posted on: 27 Dec 2011
Maggie's Guitar performed a "Summer Of Love" concert at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, at 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT on Friday September 2nd 2011.
The show featured songs from the year, 1967, including The Beatles, The Mamas and Papas, Eric Clapton, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and many more.
Maggie's Guitar were joined on stage that evening by Ian Maxwell on keyboards and vocals, Sara Bailey on vocals, Jack Moriarty on lead guitar and Pat Morrisey on drums.
Maggie's Guitar perform Jim Croce tribute concert
Posted on: 27 Dec 2011
"Maggie's Guitar", of which Ron Gletherow is a founder member, performed an evening paying tribute to the music of Jim Croce, proceeds to benefit the Shoreline Soup Kitchens, CT.
The event took place at the Katherine Hepburn Cultuiral Arts Center, at 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT, on Friday April 1st at 8pm.
Maggie's Guitar were joined on the night by special guests Mike Ball on guitar, Ian Frenkel on piano/keyboards, Pat Morrisey on drums and Lorain Ohio on vocals. Mike DiBenedetto, one of Jim's college friends and co-performers performed the opening video to the show and John Lamar was the MC for the evening.
The show was also a tribute to the music of Jim Croce's sideman and guitarist, Maury Muehleisen (who died with Jim in the plane crash), plus the man who brought the two of them together and wrote "Thursday" for the "I Got A Name" album, Sal Joseph. Maury Muehleisen's sister, Mary, plus several members of Sal Joseph's family were in attendance.
$2,400 was raised for the Shoreline Soup Kitchens, which feeds thousands of hungry people in Connecticut.
The Jim Croce show, having been such a success the first time around, will be repeated at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center on September 21st, 2012.
Tickets will be available in August, through "the Kate" theater, Old Saybrook, CT.
Students Perform on Better Connecticut
Posted on: 27 Dec 2011
Three of Ron Gletherow's guitar students are involved in a band named "Silver Hammer", and were featured on “Better Connecticut”, a channel 3 TV show recently. The band also have performed as an opening act to The Drifters at an open air concert in Harkness Park, New London, CT.
More recently, on November 11th, 2011, the band were involved in a memorial concert for Vietnam veterans in Washington DC.
The three band members involved are Tom Bora and Duncan Maxwell, and Braiden Sunshine.
The boys continue to do both me and themselves proud. I'm sure we'll be seeing much more of them in the future.