Bon Jovi, Avalon, top Rendell concert
Bon Jovi will headline a slate of entertainers with strong Pennsylvania ties for Gov. Ed Rendell's inauguration, the Democrat's inaugural committee said Saturday.
Also scheduled to perform at Tuesday's $100-per-ticket concert are former teen idol Frankie Avalon and The Trammps of disco fame.
The concert will be held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex in Harrisburg after the Democrat is sworn in for his second four-year term.
Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi is a New Jersey native with strong ties to Philadelphia, where Rendell served two terms as mayor. Bon Jovi is co-owner of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul and he was given the City of Brotherly Love Award last fall for his work with Habitat for Humanity.
Avalon, a Philadelphia native, was a popular recording artist in the 1950s who built a second career as an actor in the '60s, appearing in films that included the “Beach Party” movies with Annette Funicello.
The Trammps began as a Philadelphia group and won a Grammy Award for their “Disco Inferno” album.
Other performers on the inaugural concert bill include:
€ The Dixie Hummingbirds, a gospel group who backed Paul Simon on his hit recording “Loves Me Like A Rock” and later won a Grammy for their own version of the song.
Warhol's estate sells, but not in 15 minutes
Never mind 15 minutes of fame. It took a half-dozen years for Andy Warhol's Long Island estate to sell.
The pop art icon's 5.6-acre property in Montauk, at the fashionable eastern tip of Long Island, was bought by Millard Drexler, the chief executive of clothing retailer J. Crew, Newsday reported Saturday.
Along with a three-car garage and a stable for four horses, the main house - one of five - has seven bedrooms, 4.5 baths and four fireplaces. The property has 600 feet of oceanfront.
The broker that sold the estate, Prudential Douglas Elliman, did not reveal the selling price.
Warhol, who died during a gall bladder operation in 1987, once famously said that in the future everyone would enjoy 15 minutes of fame.
He owned the estate with filmmaker Paul Morrissey. In the 1970s, the two paid $220,000 for what was originally a 20-acre estate.
- From wire reports
In 1993, Morrissey donated 15.1 acres to the Nature Conservancy, the international conservation group, Newsday said. Morrissey put the remainder of the property on the market in 2001 for $50 million, but the final price may have been below $30 million, Newsday said.
AP-ES-01-13-07 1430EST
Also scheduled to perform at Tuesday's $100-per-ticket concert are former teen idol Frankie Avalon and The Trammps of disco fame.
The concert will be held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex in Harrisburg after the Democrat is sworn in for his second four-year term.
Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi is a New Jersey native with strong ties to Philadelphia, where Rendell served two terms as mayor. Bon Jovi is co-owner of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul and he was given the City of Brotherly Love Award last fall for his work with Habitat for Humanity.
Avalon, a Philadelphia native, was a popular recording artist in the 1950s who built a second career as an actor in the '60s, appearing in films that included the “Beach Party” movies with Annette Funicello.
The Trammps began as a Philadelphia group and won a Grammy Award for their “Disco Inferno” album.
Other performers on the inaugural concert bill include:
€ The Dixie Hummingbirds, a gospel group who backed Paul Simon on his hit recording “Loves Me Like A Rock” and later won a Grammy for their own version of the song.
Warhol's estate sells, but not in 15 minutes
Never mind 15 minutes of fame. It took a half-dozen years for Andy Warhol's Long Island estate to sell.
The pop art icon's 5.6-acre property in Montauk, at the fashionable eastern tip of Long Island, was bought by Millard Drexler, the chief executive of clothing retailer J. Crew, Newsday reported Saturday.
Along with a three-car garage and a stable for four horses, the main house - one of five - has seven bedrooms, 4.5 baths and four fireplaces. The property has 600 feet of oceanfront.
The broker that sold the estate, Prudential Douglas Elliman, did not reveal the selling price.
Warhol, who died during a gall bladder operation in 1987, once famously said that in the future everyone would enjoy 15 minutes of fame.
He owned the estate with filmmaker Paul Morrissey. In the 1970s, the two paid $220,000 for what was originally a 20-acre estate.
- From wire reports
In 1993, Morrissey donated 15.1 acres to the Nature Conservancy, the international conservation group, Newsday said. Morrissey put the remainder of the property on the market in 2001 for $50 million, but the final price may have been below $30 million, Newsday said.
AP-ES-01-13-07 1430EST
Citizen
Hot Jobs
New! Off the Menu
The Citizens' Say
Post your comment - click hereThere are No comments posted.