{"id":22019,"date":"2018-08-04T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=22019"},"modified":"2018-08-04T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:36:03","slug":"on-stage-summer-really-is-endless-for-the-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=22019","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Summer really is endless for The Beach Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Beach Boys<\/p><\/div>\n

Like the Energizer Bunny, the Beach Boys just keep going and going.<\/p>\n

On August 4, the Beach Boys will bring their surf music and California beach vibe to the area for a pair of shows at the American Music Theater (2425 Lincoln Highway, Lancaster, www.amtshows.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The veteran pop\/vocal group is on the road with its 2018 “Now & Then” Tour. Having started in Springfield, Illinois in May, the highly-anticipated tour will feature the band’s biggest hits and beloved fan favorites, such as \u201cGood Vibrations,\u201d \u201cFun, Fun, Fun,\u201d \u201cKokomo,\u201d and \u201c “I Get Around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, any band that has been around for more than 55 years rarely still has its original lineup. The first line-up change came in 1983 with the accidental death of drummer Dennis Wilson. The original group featured the Wilson brothers \u2013 Brian, Carl and Dennis \u2013 along with their cousin Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine. Carl Wilson passed away in 1998 after a bout with lung cancer.<\/p>\n

The current line-up of the Beach Boys is led by Love and Bruce Johnston, who has been with the band since the mid-1960s. The group also features musical director\u00a0Scott Totten,\u00a0Jeffrey Foskett, Christian Love, Tim Bonhomme,\u00a0John Cowsill, and\u00a0Keith Hubacher. The Beach Boys continue to perform over 150 dates per year worldwide. Brian Wilson tours with his own large group while Jardine frequently is on the road with his own group.<\/p>\n

The Beach Boys definitely rode their own wave and became the writers of the soundtrack for the surfing generation. The titles of four of their first seven singles underscore just how much surfing infiltrated their music — \u201cSurfin\u2019\u201d, \u201cSurfin\u2019 Safari\u201d, \u201cSurfin\u2019 USA\u201d and \u201cSurfer Girl\u201d.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the Beach Boys continued to churn out hit singles \u2013 most of which dealt with life in California, growing up near the beach, teen angst and learning about love.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, the Beach Boys gathered in Capitol Records\u2019 Studio A in Hollywood for a SiriusXM Town Hall. They came together to announce the debut of their SiriusXM channel and\u00a0the release of the album, \u201cThe Beach Boys With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which was released in June this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got together to celebrate the Sirius radio show,\u201d said Love, during a phone interview Tuesday afternoon while \u201csitting in Dana Point (CA) overlooking the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian has his own group and Al goes with him some places. Bruce and I do our own thing. Bruce took Brian\u2019s place in the Beach Boys in the 60s. For a long time, there was a touring group and a recording group. When Carl died, it was a great loss, but we kept going.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Wilson, Love, Jardine, Johnston and David Marks got together at Capitol last Monday, the focus of the interview, which was moderated by director Rob Reiner, was the Sirius show and the album by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n

\u201cRob Reiner had them play three songs from the album \u2013 including \u2018Fun, Fun, Fun\u2019,\u201d,said Love.<\/p>\n

The album pairs The Beach Boys’ original vocal performances with new symphonic arrangements, newly recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.<\/p>\n

Love recently published a New York Times\u00a0best-selling memoir. In November 2017, he released\u00a0\u201cUnleash the Love,\u201d\u00a0an album featuring 13 previously unreleased recordings and 14 reinterpretations of Beach Boys’ classics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our live show now, we do all the hits and a few songs from my new album,\u201d said Love. \u201cThe new songs go over really well in concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a wealth of songs to choose from. \u2018Wild Honey\u2019 just turned 50 years old. We have Bruce doing \u2018Disney Girls. We play great songs from throughout our career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though Love has sung many of these songs in concert for more than a half-century, he doesn\u2019t get tired of doing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinging the songs over and over again is never a problem,\u201d said Love. \u201cSometimes when we play to casino crowds who are there because of free tickets, we get a tough reception. That\u2019s why we don\u2019t usually play casinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmotionally, it\u2019s always easy to stay engaged with performing these songs. The vocal arrangements are just tricky enough to keep you mentally engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for the Beach Boys \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/lD4sxxoJGkA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shows at the American Music Theater will start at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $70.<\/p>\n

Another artist performing in the area on August 4 will be playing songs that were popular a half-century ago \u2013 but they aren\u2019t her original songs.<\/p>\n

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Nellie McKay<\/p><\/div>\n

On Saturday night, the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>) will host a show by Nellie McKay.<\/p>\n

McKay, who celebrated her 36th\u00a0birthday earlier this year, is touring in support of her new album \u201cSister Orchid\u201d \u2013 an album filled with songs that were popular long before she was born.<\/p>\n

The album includes timeless gems such as \u201cWillow Weep for Me,\u201d which was first recorded in 1932 by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and later was a hit for Billie Holiday in the mid-1950s; \u201cGeorgia on My Mind,\u201d a Hoagy Carmichael song from 1930 that was a hit for Ray Charles in 1960; and \u201cIn a Sentimental Mood,\u201d which was penned and performed by Duke Ellington in 1935.<\/p>\n

McKay will bring these songs to life when she performs them onstage in Sellersville.<\/p>\n

On McKay\u2019s website, \u201cSister Orchid,\u201d which was released on May 18 on Palmetto Records, had this description \u2013 \u201cConjuring the image of a lonely all-night truck stop along highway 1 on the California coast, all but lost in the fog that comes creeping along the shoreline\u2026this album speaks of the night, the outsider, the plaintive wail of those lost at sea.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Sister Orchid\u2019\u00a0was conceived in solitude,\u00a0executed in darkness. It\u00a0comes from a place of quiet, a world of low lights and cool drinks, up against a hard wall.\u00a0 An oasis of hungry eyes and easy promises, warm as a biscuit, the kind of place your mother warned you against.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album is definitely an emotional experience \u2013 for McKay and for the listeners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me a long time to make this album,\u201d said McKay, during a recent phone interview. \u201cI\u2019ve known some of these songs since I was little. All of them are standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many years, I thought about doing a solo album like this. It seemed right. Selecting the songs to record was extremely difficult \u2013 almost impossible \u2013 because there are so many great songs. The songs I chose blended together well on this album.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album features McKay on vocals with just piano accompaniment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recorded it last summer in Pennsylvania and New York,\u201d said McKay. \u201cThe song list was large. We had about 40 songs and then whittled it down. Everything had something going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just me on this record. I sang and played piano. I think it has a different flavor than most albums \u2013 no other instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKay first played shows in this area back in 2004 to accompany the release of her debut album \u201cGet Away from Me\u201d on Columbia Records<\/p>\n

When she was getting started, McKay\u2019s music bridged the gap between jazz and hip-hop — a combination not often heard in today\u2019s pop music.<\/p>\n

McKay was born in London and raised in New York, the Pacific Northwest and Pennsylvania’s Pocono Manor. When she was still in her teens, she was living in her own apartment in New York — at the edge of Harlem at 123rd and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

McKay, who attended school at Pocono Mountain Junior and Senior High, learned to play a variety of instruments including piano, cello, timpani, vibes, triangle and saxophone. Her main concentration has always been on keyboards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played with the East Stroudsburg University Jazz Ensemble when I was still in high school,\u201d said McKay. \u201cPatrick Dorian, a music professor at ESU, gave me my first formal jazz training. He taught me a lot about composition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, McKay began playing gigs at New York piano bars such as Don’t Tell Mama’s, Stonewall Bistro, Psychic Cafe, Regents, Rose’s Turn, and Mozart Caf\u00e9 (where she was canned because she liked to play Christmas songs in August when people weren’t sick of them). A record deal with Columbia followed and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

\u201cSister Orchid\u201d\u00a0marks\u00a0McKay\u2019s seventh label release in just 31 years. Her previous albums include\u00a0\u201cGet Away from My Head,\u201d \u201cPretty\u00a0Little\u00a0Villagers,\u201d \u201cObligatory Pie,\u201d \u201cNormal as Home: A Tribute\u00a0to\u00a0My\u00a0Day,\u201d \u201cSweet Mobile\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cBlueberry\u00a0Reader.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKay is like a modern-day \u201cRenaissance Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Broadway, she\u00a0won a Theatre\u00a0World\u00a0Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Threepenny\u00a0Opera.\u201d She also\u00a0co-created and starred in the award-winning off-Broadway hit\u00a0\u201cOld Hats,\u201d\u00a0and has\u00a0written and produced musical biographies around a compelling gallery of ladies\u00a0\u2013 from\u00a0environmental pioneer\u00a0Rachel Carson to the life,\u00a0conviction, and execution at San Quentin\u00a0of\u00a0underdog\u00a0Barbara Graham.<\/p>\n

Recent projects include \u201cThe Big Molinsky \u2013 Considering Joan Rivers,\u201d and \u201cA GIRL NAMED BILL \u2013 The Life and Times of Billy Tipton,\u201d which was named one of the \u201cBest Concerts of the Year\u201d by\u00a0The New York Times.<\/p>\n

McKay\u2019s screen work includes roles\u00a0in\u00a0\u201cPS I Love You\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cDowntown Express.\u201d She contributed movie\u00a0music to\u00a0\u201cRumor Has It,\u201d \u201cMonster-in-Law,\u201d \u201cGasland,\u201d \u201cLast Holiday,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cPrivate Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the television world, her music has been heard on\u00a0\u201cMad Men,\u201d \u201cBoardwalk Empire,\u201d \u201cWeeds,\u201d \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy,\u201d \u201cNCIS,\u201d \u201cNurse Jackie,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cSMILF.\u201d Additionally, McKay\u2019s writing has appeared in\u00a0The Onion,\u00a0Interview, and\u00a0The New York Times Book Review.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, it\u2019s a cabaret act,\u201d said McKay. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ll do \u2013 a classic cabaret show. The live show is a preview of the new album, so we\u2019ll be playing all the songs from the album. Also, people call out request and I like to oblige them.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKay also has devoted much of her life to projects combating animal abuse.<\/p>\n

She is a recipient of PETA\u2019s\u00a0Humanitarian Award and The Humane Society\u2019s Doris Day Music Award\u00a0in recognition of her dedication to animal rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a vegetarian since I was eight,\u201d said McKay. \u201cI\u2019ve been vegan since 2004. Non-violence begins on your plate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Nellie McKay \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/hU446HDtGv8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the Sellersville Theater, which has Rich Jenkins as the opener, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $39.50.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at the comfortable venue in Sellersville are Patrick Moraz on August 5, and Hayes Carll on August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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