Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesA new film about Buddy Holly is in the works, and it’s now snagged a director.Variety reports that Mario Van Peebles is set to direct That’ll Be the Day, which will focus on Holly and his fellow musicians of the 1950s, detailing how their music influenced society and culture.“America’s tumultuous cultural melting pot has produced transcendent musical talent, including Buddy Holly, who was our first bad a rock ’n’ roll nerd,” Van Peebles, who previously directed New Jack City and the recently released Outlaw Posse, shares about the project. The film’s screenplay was written by Patrick Shanahan and Matthew Benjamin. Benjamin produced the 1987 biopic La Bamba, about singer Richie Valens, who died alongside Holly and J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, in the 1959 plane crash.That ll Be the Day appears to have backing by the Buddy Holly estate. BMG, the company that manages the estate and controls the ri
artwork by Karsten SteigerForeigner doesn’t seem ready to say farewell to their Farewell tour. The band just announced a new set of fall dates featuring special guests Lita Ford and Loverboy.The latest leg of the tour kicks off September 23 in Charleston, West Virginia, with dates confirmed through October 9 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.A Foreigner presale kicks off Wednesday, April 3, at 10 a.m. CT, and tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, April 5, at 10 a.m. CT.Foreigner is currently in Las Vegas for residency at The Venetian Theatre, with three more shows left this month, April 3, 5 and 6. They will then resume their Farewell tour on April 11 in Ivins, Utah, and will team with Styx and special guest John Waite for the Renegades & Juke Box Heroes Tour, starting June 11 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.A complete list of Foreigner tour dates can be found at foreignerlive.com.Foreigner is also currently nominated for induction into the Rock & Ro
Rotary Club Meeting – 4-2-24
The program at Tuesday’s Rotary luncheon was presented by Rotarian Beau Wilson. Beau introduced Connie Lamke, the Founder and President of .
Congratulations to Donna Dupre, one of our four winners who won tickets to attend the Baby Face concert this Saturday night at Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder. DJ Ray is shown presenting the two ti.
Gie Knaeps/Getty ImagesSome previously lost Marvin Gaye recordings may soon see the light of day after being discovered in Belgium.Over 40 years ago, Gaye lived in the home of Belgian musician Charles Dumolin, whose family recently uncovered a collection of items belonging to Gaye, the BBC reports. The collection includes costumes, notebooks and cassettes with what is believed to be music Gaye recorded while living in the city."They belong to [the family] because they were left in Belgium 42 years ago," Belgian lawyer Alex Trappeniers, who s a business partner of the family, tells the BBC. "Marvin gave it to them and said, Do whatever you want with it and he never came back. That s important."Of the 30 tapes in the collection, Trappeniers says there’s about 66 demos of new songs. “A few of them are complete and a few of them are as good as Sexual Healing, because it was made in the same time,” he shares.So far, there’s no word on if the music w