Here are some of the exciting scheduled LIVE Music performances at the newly opened Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (97 Main St., Stony Brook)
Events during regular museum hours are free with general admission ticket. Events after hours require separate ticket purchases. More details and for tickets visit: https://www.limusichalloffame.org/tickets-and-gift-cards/
March 5 Original Gossip Band 3-4 pm
March 12 Gene Casey Duo 3-4 pm
March 19 Mark Newman 3-4 pm
March 26 The Eagle River Band 3-4 pm
About Original Gossip Band
From Farmingdale, Original Gossip is an all-original rock band made up of five seasoned musicians from Long Island. Each member has more than 20 years of experience covering all aspects of music including song writing, performing, recording, sound engineering, and teaching.
While Original Gossip was formed 3 years ago, the band has over 30 original songs in their repertoire. They found that an audience of all ages has gravitated towards their music through streaming sites, social media, and live performances in popular clubs on Long Island and in the heart of New York City.
Original Gossip remains highly dedicated to creating new music. They enjoy the recording and performing processes and look forward to bringing their music to the next level and beyond.
Tania Purpora – Vocals, Al Cubisino – Guitar, Aaron Needle – Guitar, Rob Coren – Drums, Jeff Frohman – Bass
The band just announced that it will be auctioning off a Johnson Acoustic guitar at their performance as a fundraiser to benefit LIMEHOF.
About Gene Casey
In the latter part of the last century, GENE CASEY departed New York City and its Punk rock/New wave scene for Long Island’s East End. There, he formed the Lone Sharks, “the house band of the Hamptons,” where bars were plentiful and audiences – both the local and the celebrated – were robust and loyal. Over the course of the next few decades Gene and the evolving line-up of Sharks “played – and tore up – every roadhouse, bar, and honky tonk from Manhattan to Montauk” (Bop Magazine), sharing the bill and backing legendary roots rock & roll acts as Wanda Jackson, the Band, Bo Diddley, Sleepy LaBeef, NRBQ, and the Ventures.
Gene’s original music met with great acclaim with local and international indie radio play. Several of his roots-drenched songs have been used in “A Prairie Home Companion” and on the soundtracks to television and feature films, including “Justified” and “Sons of Anarchy” ; the 2012 thriller “The Tall Man” starring Jessica Biel, the 2013 release “The Killing Season” starring Robert DeNiro, and Rob Reiner’s “Being Charlie.”
In 2014 Gene and the Lone Sharks were inducted into the Dan’s Papers “Best of the Best” Hall of Fame, having been honored over 20 times. A year later Gene, “the premier barroom troubadour of Eastern Long Island” (author Josh Alan Friedman) received the Long Island Sound Award by the L.I. Music Hall of Fame, “for contributions to the Island’s musical landscape.”
About Mark Newman
Growing up in New York, Mark Newman’s musical journey has taken him around the world several times as both sideman and singer/songwriter. This ace stringman (guitar, lap steel, mandolin, dobro) and accomplished songwriter is the type of singer whose warm and expressive voice sounds like an old friend. He put it all together on 2006’s “Must Be A Pony” (Danal Music, LLC). In 2010 he took a quantum leap forward with the stunning “Walls Of Jericho” (Danal Music. LLC) and has just released, “Brussels”( Danal Music. LLC), a live solo EP. “Empirical Truth”, his latest CD was released in June, 2018 (Danal Music, LLC, distributed by WBA Records). It won best CD from the Long Island Blues Society.
Sharing the stage with such notables as soul legend Sam Moore (Sam & Dave), John Oates(Hall and Oates), Jim McCarty (Yardbirds, Renaissance),the late Willy DeVille (Mink DeVille), Bobby Whitlock (Derek and the Dominos), Sam The Sham and Darlene Love has given Newman the perspective to craft an individualistic sound framed in straight-from-the-hip rock’n’roll, simmering with the subtle flavors of blues, R’n’B, funk, folk and soul.
About Eagle River Band
This 6-piece Eagles Tribute Band has been entertaining audiences from Fire Island to Greenport since 2017. We are eager to bring the music of the Eagles to the stage at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame this March. The band features six vocalists and three guitarists bringing the soaring harmonies and signature riffs of the Eagles to life. Hope to see you there!
For more details, visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org/museum/
