Bay Street Theater to Host "A Night To Rock" This Friday

Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts recently announced they will be hosting A Night To Rock with former SNL Band Leader GE Smith and Israeli Superstar David Broza.

The event will take place on Friday, April 10 starting at 8 p.m. at the theater located on 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor.

Tickets are $40 and available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500.

The evening will feature GE Smith, one of the most highly sought after blues and rock guitarists in the world and David Broza, known as an international singer/songwriter.

GE Smith previoiusly played with Hall and Oates and Bob Dylan and is most known as the leader of the Saturday Night Live (SNL) band for 10 years (from 1985 to 1995).

The band is arguably the best late-night band on television at the time and earned an Emmy Award for their work.

The SNL roster of guest musicians read like a Who’s Who of contemporary music: Eddie Van Halen, Keith Richards, Rickie Lee Jones, Al Green, Bryan Ferry, et al.

In fact, many of the best musical (surprise) moments came when GE invited guitar heroes to play with the band, unannounced.

Eddie Van Halen was the first, followed by an amazing roster that included David Gilmour, Lonnie Mack, Dave Edmonds, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, and others. The Buddy Guy visit eventually resulted in the GE’s 1996 Grammy-nominated Buddy Guy – Live CD, with G.E. and the SNL band.

David Broza, an Israeli superstar, has brought a fusion of the three different countries in which he was raised: Israel, Spain, and England, filling concert halls with his famous guitar playing, ranging from flamenco flavored rhythmic and percussion techniques, to whirlwind finger picking, to a signature rock and roll sound.

Broza unites the three worlds by utilizing his ability to take on the troubadour tradition, up to now, featuring lyrics of the worlds’ greatest poets.

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