If you like oldies, get ready for some goodies. The Prison City Rockers, Auburn's own locally-inspired band is planning a reunion after a six-year hiatus.
The Emerson Park Summer Kickoff will be hosting the Rockers to open for Nik and the Nice Guys and usher in the summer.
The kickoff will be hosted by the Owasco Fire Department and proceeds will benefit the department and its volunteers.
“Nobody needs more support than volunteers. That's why we want to help out and just have fun in this non-stop dance party at the park,” band member Bob Bachta said. “It's going to be huge.”
The Prison City Rockers, a local long-time favorite started as youth, debuted in 1980 and rocked in all corners of central New York.
They then went their separate ways and reunited some time later for their 10-year reunion in 1993. It was supposed to be an 18-month run, but lasted seven years.
The lack of local venues eventually forced the band into retirement. And now, after six years of playing separately and entertaining in various clubs, they will once again return to Auburn to relive some old memories and jive to some old tunes.
“We're comin' out of nowhere from the past,” band member Bob Bachta said. “We play songs that everybody remembers growing up to, the fun lovin' music with melodies from the late '60s and '70s.”
Bachta said the Rockers hope to see a lot of fans from their past, when they were younger and entertained Auburn.
A lot of their music includes “goofy” songs that everybody remembers but don't get to hear that often. They specialize in a mix of AM radio hits.
“Quirky stuff, like the Monkeys, David Cassidy and Barry Manilow,” he said. “We set the trend, at least on a local level, in central New York of redoing the oldies.”
The kickoff will be hosted by the Owasco Fire Department and proceeds will benefit the department and its volunteers.
“Nobody needs more support than volunteers. That's why we want to help out and just have fun in this non-stop dance party at the park,” band member Bob Bachta said. “It's going to be huge.”
The Prison City Rockers, a local long-time favorite started as youth, debuted in 1980 and rocked in all corners of central New York.
They then went their separate ways and reunited some time later for their 10-year reunion in 1993. It was supposed to be an 18-month run, but lasted seven years.
The lack of local venues eventually forced the band into retirement. And now, after six years of playing separately and entertaining in various clubs, they will once again return to Auburn to relive some old memories and jive to some old tunes.
“We're comin' out of nowhere from the past,” band member Bob Bachta said. “We play songs that everybody remembers growing up to, the fun lovin' music with melodies from the late '60s and '70s.”
Bachta said the Rockers hope to see a lot of fans from their past, when they were younger and entertained Auburn.
A lot of their music includes “goofy” songs that everybody remembers but don't get to hear that often. They specialize in a mix of AM radio hits.
“Quirky stuff, like the Monkeys, David Cassidy and Barry Manilow,” he said. “We set the trend, at least on a local level, in central New York of redoing the oldies.”