Mayock, Pevar To Play Together Saturday

This weekend music lovers will have a chance to see and hear home-grown musicians John Mayock and Jeff Pevar perform together again.

Saturday Mayock and Pevar will fill the airwaves at the WWUH, 91.3 FM radio show at 12:15 and then perform at the in Collinsville, beginning at 9 p.m.

Mayock, a resident of North Granby, said the two musicians have known each other since the 1970s and co-founded The Dudley Town String Band.

“We’ll explore our back catalog and also explore some of our new songs,” Mayock said of Saturday’s show. “We certainly have a long history together.”

He added, “Though we have had our ups and downs, we have been getting together occasionally ever since in various forms, including last November’s delightful Dudley Town Band reunion.”

The radio show will be largely acoustic with guitars and possibly mandolin and Dobro while the night show will offer more variety.

In recent years Mayock was a long-time member of the popular roots flavored band The Mayocks with brother Tim. He now leads a new band called the Homesteaders.

Pevar, no stranger to area music lovers, is a former Simsbury resident who for many years performed with his ex-wife Dana Pomfret, a popular vocalist still living in the Farmington Valley.

Pevar moved from the area several years ago and has toured or recorded with acts like Ray Charles, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Ray Charles and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. He is also part of CPR, an occasional band that includes David Crosby and his son James Raymond.

Now living out west, he generally comes to the area several times a year. This trip worked out well because he has been contracted to do some recording in New York City. 

Pevar said he loves to comes to the come back to the area, see family and get together with fellow musicians for off-the-cuff shows, which he calls spontaneous combustion. 

Pevar said Mayock is not only an excellent musician dedicated to his craft but also a close friend. 

“He’s just a great friend and a good man,” he said.