NOVEMBER 26, 2009 ISSUE
Echo Park To Reprise Tommy Performance December 4
Concert Will Honor Departing Bassist Bill Fisher
Echo Park’s long-anticipated performance of The Who’s Tommy at the Valborg Theatre featured many local guest artists and was well received.
The December 4 performance of Tommy will be the last public performance of Echo Park featuring Bill “Fish” Fisher (second from right) on bass. Fisher is moving to Florida.
Local progressive rock band Echo Park will reprise its performance of The Who’s rock opera Tommy on Friday, December 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the newly renovated Harvest House Performing Arts Center in Boone. Admission is $10.
Tommy is a double album by English rockers The Who that tells a loose story about a “deaf, dumb and blind boy” who becomes the leader of a messianic movement. Released in 1969, Tommy was the first musical work to be billed as a “rock opera.”
Echo Park features Jamie Blanton on drums; Rusty Blanton on guitar and backing vocals; Bill “Fish” Fisher on bass and backing vocals; Steve Roark on keyboards, sax and backing vocals; and Bob Rochelle on lead vocals.
Joining Echo Park will be guest artists Becca Eggers-Gryder, Billy Ralph Winkler, Melissa Reaves, Aaron Burleson, R. Kevin Johnson, Robbie Stevens, Jordan Jackson, Amanda Blanton, Daniel Rochelle and Emily Rochelle.
The encore show is a follow-up to well-received performances of Tommy at ASU’s Valborg Theatre in May, which were fundraisers for the Watauga Arts Council, and a send-off for Fisher, the band’s longtime bassist and a local celebrity. Fisher, a well-known television and radio personality in the High Country, is relocating to Florida.
In honor of Fisher, a reception will take place at Harvest House beginning at 5:00 p.m., prior to the show. The reception is free and open to the public.
Harvest House is better known as the home of Living Water Christian Fellowship, located on Boone Heights Drive next to the bowling alley. The leaders of Living Water plan to bring a state-of-the-art performing arts center to Boone to accommodate a variety of musical and visual arts as well as theatre and dance. The Tommy performance will be the first show in the new venue.
For more information, click to www.echoparkband.com.
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