[FLCC News] 2008 Music Kick Off at the Fair Lawn Community Center

[Fair Lawn Community Center News]

The Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club will kick off their 2008 series of concerts
this Saturday January 5th with singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert and special
guests the Moonlighters. The 8:00pm concert will be held in the Fair Lawn
Community Center located at 10-10 20th Street in Fair Lawn, NJ.

Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 90's when
the ex-jazz singer began appearing at open mikes in Boston. The word spread
of this Philadelphia-area born and raised performer to New York where Shawn
Colvin invited Vance Gilbert to be special guest on her Fat City tour.
Gilbert took audiences across the country by storm with his enthralling
tenor vocals, powerful guitar styling, whimsical sense of humor and a talent
for writing songs that would garner airplay on adult contemporary radio
across the country. Since 1994, Vance Gilbert has released eight best
selling CD's and is currently working on a project called "Sounds Like."
which will feature songs written by Gilbert in the style of other
contemporary songwriters. Vance Gilbert also continues to tour as the
opening act for comedian George Carlin.

Opening for Vance Gilbert at the Hurdy Gurdy will be the Moonlighters , a
local group that has been a part of the New York City jazz and pop music
scenes since they formed in 1998. Based around a core of harmonized vocal
duets backed by warm acoustic instruments including Hawaiian lap steel
guitar, ukulele, guitar and bass, their original songs encompass many styles
of 20th Century jazz and pop: ragtime, swing, Hawaiian, country, blues, and
even be-bop flavors.

Tickets for the concert are $25 ($22 for Hurdy Gurdy members) and can be
purchased online at www.hurdygurdyfolk.org or at the box office at the Fair
Lawn Community Center on the night of the concert. (We suggest advance order
to insure your tickets and to save time waiting at the box office).

Additional information can found at our website or by calling the Hurdy
Gurdy Hotline at (201) 384-1325

We hope to see you there!!!

Ron Olesko
President
The Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club