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Two big things happened in Eatontown on the evening of Friday, May 14.
Jersey Shore guitar legend Bobby Bandiera made his return to the concert stage after a year away due to the pandemic, and he returned at the new Concerts on the Green concert series at Suneagles Golf Club in Eatontown.
Concerts on the Green, presented by the Count Basie Center for the Arts, is a socially distanced pop-up venue that accommodates 500 seated fans under a tent near the course’s Gibbs Hall. There’s a lot of like. There isn’t a bad view of the stage, the sound is fine and the food, by Chef Joe D’Esposito of Tavern 19, is tasty.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (May 12, 2021)
Posted May 12, 2021
Performing virtually during last year s Cape May Music Festival are, from left, Bay Symphony Orchestra conductor Jed Gaylin, flautist Susan Rotholz and New York Chamber Ensemble artistic director Eliot Ballen. This year s fest will start with a virtual concert but then move to live performances starting Memorial Day weekend.Photo courtesy of Cape May MAC
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♦ The 32nd annual Cape May Music Festival begins 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, May 13, with a free virtual concert prerecorded and presented by Cape May MAC, the New York Chamber Ensemble and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. A live Q&A will follow the performance.
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After an extended set break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, live music is returning in a big way to stages across New Jersey this summer.
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that as rusty strings are being dusted off, the sound at the forefront of live music’s resurrection is that of the Grateful Dead.
“The people who come to see the Grateful Dead music, it’s beyond music, it’s community,” said Dana Carroll, bassist of the Dead tribute act Brown Eyed Women. “I think that is maybe some of the difference, why these bands are kind of critical to the return of live music.”
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (May 5, 2021)
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Several live, on-location musical events will feature women artists this Mother’s Day weekend:
♦ South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange is bringing its stage back to life on Friday, May 7, with a concert by singer-songwriter and New Jersey native Dana Fuchs. The show will be limited to 100 audience members in the theater, but also will be streamed live online.
♦ Broadway veteran Kelli Rabke will premiere her new cabaret show, “Tiny Giants Petite Powerhouses from Garland to Gaga,” at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown with performances 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8. As indicated by its title, the show will pay tribute to “small-in-stature” women vocalists, including Edith Piaf, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, the singers whose names are incorporated in the show’s title, and others. (Rabke,