ROCK & ROLL RECITAL XVII - FINAL SHOW DANVILLE VILLAGE THEATRE WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015

Promoter Chester Farrow is pleased to announce the 17th annual, and final, Rock & Roll Recital (www.rockandrollrecital.com) in Danville at the Village Theatre, 233 Front Street, on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. The annual event is a showcase opportunity for over 40 local guitar students from instructor and renowned Danville musician Bruce Hock’s guitar classes to perform on a big stage in groups, both acoustic and electric.

As a special send-off, old friend and Walnut Creek native Greg Douglass will perform a few numbers. Douglass is a well-known guitar player and songwriter having penned the number one single “Jungle Love” for Steve Miller and during his career performed with Van Morrison, Steve Miller, Hot Tuna and Greg Kihn to name a few.

“I only intended to do the first show at Monte Vista. But the recital experience was just so rewarding for me and the audience…the students so wide-eyed on stage…I just had to continue the Recitals. A very different experience than putting on rock concerts…I don’t have to go to “war” with managers about every little thing. The Recital is pure joy!” said Chester Farrow.

Showtime is 7pm and doors open at 6pm this year for guests to purchase raffle tickets ($5, or 5 for $20) to win Oakland A’s “Experiences”, Oakland A’s tickets, and 2015 B.R. Cohn Charity Events 2015 Sonoma Music Festival tickets held in October 2-4 in downtown Sonoma (featuring Chicago, Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald and Gregg Allman, and much more). Proceeds from the raffle will go to Breast Cancer Research. Tickets for the event are $20 this year so the whole family can attend and are available at www.villagetheatreshows.com or by calling 925-314-3400.

Farrow, a retired broadcast media schoolteacher from Monte Vista High School in Danville, produced many concerts at that venue’s storied theater in his 32 years of teaching. Some of the shows included artists such as Huey Lewis and the News, Journey, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, Greg Kihn Band, Greg Douglass, Y & T, Journey, Joe Satriani and Boz Scaggs to name a few. Bruce played in many concerts for Chester and the two have worked on shows together for 42 years. Chester, in April, kicked off his 47th year as scoreboard operator for the Oakland Athletics.

The Rock & Roll Recital was started at Monte Vista in 1999 as a showcase for Bruce Hock’s guitar students. Hock, who is a fixture in the East Bay music scene, has taught guitar for 38 years in Danville and counts Dan Vickrey of the Counting Crows, Jason Hammon of the Dance Hall Crashers, Adam Lasher, Carlos Santana’s nephew, who advanced to the 2nd round on “American Idol” this year, and Kevin Feyen of the Black Eyed Peas as former students.

The event, for the eighth time, will be webcast, free, worldwide starting at 7pm. Some of Farrow’s former Monte Vista students will produce the webcast. These professionals have gone on to successful and lucrative careers in television and radio engineering, editing and directing as well as other careers in the entertainment industry. The webcast and concert production are made possible through generous donations by Barking Trout Productions, Gene Shortt, Dick Callahan, New Mecca Café in Pittsburg, CA and Prime Time Entertainment in Livermore, CA. The address for the Webcast is www.rockandrollrecital.com.