FRI FEB 6, 2015 'Two Rock Legends' Concert In Glen Cove, NY! Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens & John Ford of The Strawbs @ The View Grill 7:30pm

Enjoy a really great night of music with ‘Two Rock Legends!’ Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens and John Ford of the Strawbs. Featuring a rare Beatles Acoustic Duo set with Pat Dinizio & John Ford for part of the show!

Doors: 5:30pm Show Starts: 7:30pm. Produced by Friends of My Father’s Place and Michael “Eppy” Epstein of original ’My Father’s Place’ venue in Roslyn, NY. All happening at:

The VIEW GRILL Restaurant at Glen Cove Golf Club, 111 Lattingtown Rd., Glen Cove, New York 11542 516-200-9603 https://www.facebook.com/TheViewGrillRestaurant

Reserve your Seats Now! Tickets: $35 Buy Tickets Online @ http://www.myfathersplace.com

Table Seating available. Make this a great way to start the weekends with family, friends for great music, food and fare!

Although being from either side of ‘The Pond’, these two legendary Rockers, Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens and John Ford of The Strawbs share much in common in their musical backgrounds, from being songwriters, vocalists and founding members of some of their band projects, to Gold and Multi-Platinum Record Award recipients for their many Chart topping, hook laden Hits in US, UK and Canada and beyond. Ford also received an Ivor Novello Songwriting Award for “Part of the Union.” In addition to all their albums, both Rockers have performed on popular TV programs, music videos, films, DVDs and major world tours with other well-known bands, besides sharing a common band inspiration – The Beatles, they will also be performing together at the concert.

For Pat Dinizio and The Smithereens, perseverance paid off with their chart-topping hits appearing on the radio in rapid succession like “Behind the Wall of Sleep,” “Only a Memory,” “A Girl Like You,” and “Blood and Roses.” Their latest album, Smithereens 2011, spawned the hit radio singles “Sorry” and “One Look at You.” A man of many talents, Dinizio’s other side projects include Politics, running in 2000 for NJ Senate, chronicled in 2001 documentary, “Mr. Smithereen Goes To Washington;” Program Director for XM satellite radio’s “Unsigned Channel;” traveling across the country with his revolutionary “Living Room Tour;” and ran the grants program for Jim Beam Brands’ “Benefiting Emerging Artists in Music.” Pat Dinizio has also recorded four critically praised solo albums, in addition to an audio-book, “Confessions Of A Rock Star” in 2009. Pat Dinizio on Facebook and website: http://www.patdinizio.net and on Facebook.

Some of John Ford’s other band projects and songs he is most known for include: The Strawbs – “Part of the Union”, “Heavy Disguise”; Founding member of Hudson Ford, The Monks and for fun, the 1930s styled High Society, whose hit songs include respectively “Burn Baby Burn,” “Pick Up The Pieces” and “Nice Legs Shame about The Face,” Bad Habits, and Suspended Animation, British Psychedelia project, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera’s ”Flames” and ”Mary Jane” (banned by BBC). Ford has toured the world, and shared the stage with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, The Eagles, Jefferson Starship, Dave Mason, Ian Lloyd of Stories, BOC, King Crimson, T. Rex, Steppenwolf, and YOSO. Ford has eleven Solo Albums - the latest “No Talkin’ Vol 1,” an original, all instrumental tribute to The Shadows and Ventures, and 57th Grammys entry for 2014. Ford has made the US his home since the late 1980s. -Jill Morrison

John Ford Website: http://www.johnfordofthestrawbs.com and on Facebook.

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