Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center
South Brunswick Municipal Complex
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction
Admission $6 at the door, (includes light refreshment)
Doors open 7:30pm, 732.329.4000 x7635 • arts@sbtnj.net
Friday, September 6 • 8PM The Sixth Street Trio
Tony Forliano, Ken Vogel, and Art Stephano have been playing together for over 17 years. All the of these truly talented musicians are dedicated to the uniquely American art form jazz.
These men also play together in a larger group, The Sixth Street Quaternion. 6StQ released an all album of all original music in 2010 “Summer Nights” featuring songs written by 6StQ’s saxophone playing songster, Dave Renz. You may visit Dave’s website here: Dave Renz
Ken, Tony and Art also have a presence on social media. You can follow their tweets here: 6StQ on Twitter and like them on facebook here: 6StQ Facebook Fan Page you can also buy “Summer Nights” on itunes here: 6StQ Summer Nights on Itunes.
Lately the boys have been keeping busy playing in local venues such as The Blue Point Grill and Laurita Winery and Alba Vineyards.
Tony Forliano
Ken Vogel
Art Stephano
October 11 • Paul Plumeri
One part technician, one part poet and one part guitar craftsman, Plumeri has been playing his own style of blues in and around Trenton and eastern Pennsylvania clubs for more than three decades.
He’s been up and he’s been down, but like any good bluesman, Plumeri perseveres. He remains optimistic about the future, like any good bluesman. Plumeri, the third son of the well-known, longtime Trenton-area politician and civil servant Sam Plumeri, began playing guitar at age seven. “As a seventh grader, I found myself going into dark Philadelphia clubs opening for bands like The Cyrkle.” He recalls how thrilled he was to get up and play guitar alongside Hammond B-3 organist “Groove” Holmes as a young teen.
Plumeri got hooked on the blues about a year after he began playing guitar, when he discovered blues on the radio in Trenton. Longtime Trenton-area DJ George Bannister played a role in sparking Plumeri’s lifelong interest in blues and classic R&B.
Through the early and mid-1970s, Plumeri founded and led a band called Hoochie Cooch and played in that band until 1976, when he joined keyboardist Duke Williams in his band, The Extremes. With Williams and the Extremes, he toured the East Coast and most of Canada from 1976 until the end of 1980.
The first incarnation of the Paul Plumeri Blues Band made its debut on a Sunday night in 1982 at a nightclub in Trenton, the night Plumeri’s son was born. With a new addition to his family, a mortgage to pay, and the need for health insurance, he decided to change gears. He worked as a housing inspector for the city of Trenton. He still played blues at night and on weekends, as he does today.
Plumeri has been associated with the blues in the Garden State and greater Philadelphia for more than three decades, and frankly, it’s an affiliation he’s not willing to let go of. “I wasn’t willing to leave my association of being a blues musician. I never became associated with some other trendy thing, I did not play top 40 music.”
November 1 • Shikantaza
No performance in December this year.
2014 performances will begin in February.