WPCNR STAGE DOOR. By KKIX's Big Melvin Mead, the Big Apple’s 1440 Rockin Daddy with All the Hits You Need. September 22, 2008: A little truckin music, Ray, bring it up down under and up underneath, we’re going up country,with the music you loved in the Summer of love 40 years ago, drank espresso to and lit matches to. My pal,  White Plains Westco’s Suzi the K,(K is for Katz)  is turning back the hands of time.

JEFFERSON STARSHIP --CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE -- ONE NIGHT ONLY -- SATURDAY, THAT'S SATURDAY, September 27

All you Children of Love, peace and understanding out there listen up and down the coast from New Ro to Bedford, Tarrytown to Stamford, your rockin’ daddy is here to give you the word about  out of sight  WESTCO Productions.

White Plains own Suzi the K – Susan Katz, founder of good old Westco,  blasts off her 2008 Solid Gold Star Concert Revival Tour with two blockbustin' foot-stompin' blasts from the past, this Saturday September 27, the K-girl brings back  Jefferson Starship  at the fabulous Tarrytown Music Hall –that’s SATURDAY, dudes at “The Fillmore North,” Tarrytown Music Hall--  the balcony will be shaking to the pyschedelic, hold-those-BIC-lighters-to-the-sky sounds of Jefferson Starship and the music of The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

SUNDAY, THAT'S SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 -- Go Ramblin', singing along, with the feel-good, foot-stompin' hand-clappin, troupadours of the 60s

Then back to back,  Suzi the K lays a double play on you a little farther on down the road in Irvington, next week, Sunday, that’s  Suhnday, October 6, a little farther down Route 9 when the hipsterette brings back the  feel good 1970 Hootenanny experience with the singers you sung along to in the mid-60s,The New Christy Minstrels with original singers at Irvington Town Hall Theater.

Both concerts hosted on stage by my flower child buddy, White Plains own Suzy the K, entertaining Westchester with what Westchester wants for over 30 years, newest member-to-be of the White Plains High Hall of Fame and you tell be these blockbuster headliners. Grab a pencil and paper gang or go to www.westcoproductions.org or call 914-761-7463 for ticket information. Choice, secluded balcony seats in these great old halls -- the "fillmores of Westchester" still available. Tell them Big Melvin Mead sent you! Here's more on what's happenin, baby...

JEFFERSON STARSHIP with Special Guest - Grateful Dead pianist Tom Constanten ONE NIGHT ONLY

Turn back the calendar to 1968 when Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded some of their most compelling music. In "The Great ’68 Airplane-Quick-Dead Show," original members of all three bands appear in sets which pay tribute to each band’s music. You’ll see Jefferson Airplane/Starship founders Paul Kantner and Marty Balin, Quicksilver Messenger Service founder David Freiberg, along with Cathy Richardson, Donny Baldwin, Slick Aguilar, and Chris Smith. Special guest is Tom Constanten, original pianist from The Grateful Dead.  Suzi the K is bringing them right back!

ONE NIGHT ONLY! The Sounds of  The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service Rise Again!Sat., Sept. 27 - Tarrytown Music Hall - 8:00 pm. You get your money's worth in the first 15 minutes, and the rest of the show is FREE!

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Ramble  and sing along once more with THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS ONE NIGHT ONLY SUNDAY, THAT'S SUNDAY OCTOBER 6 as Irvington Town Hall turns into "Hootenanny" -- the night the New Christy Minstrels Come to Town Hall.

Led by original  Randy Sparks, creator of the Minstrels! Featuring original members Dolan Ellis, Art Podell, Jackie Miller  Davidson, and Clarence Treat -- the very same Grammy Award-winning performers who starred on "The Andy Williams Show" beginning when the group made its debut in 1962. Among the fans was President John F. Kennedy! Also appearing, Becky Jo Benson and Buffalo Bill Boycott.

Millions of records sold! Their songs are classics: "Green, Green," "This Land is Your Land," "Saturday Night," "Today," "Denver," "Mighty Mississippi," "Drinking Gourd," and many others!!

The New Christy Minstrels popularized folk music throughout the 60s along with the other legends of folk music – Peter Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio.

Get that hootenanny happy, toe-tapping, hand-clappin, feeling you got watching Hootenanny on ABC, when you sang along and snapped your fingers to the New Christy Minstrels – the troupadours of the 60s.