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Jan 17, 2015 · In conjunction with the Light of Day festival, an exhibit has opened at the Heaven Art Gallery at 721 Cookman Ave. in Asbury Park, celebrating Asbury Park’s African-American musical legacy — particularly the jazz, gospel and R&B that could be heard on the city’s West Side from the 1910s through the 1970s (and that had a big effect on the “Asbury Park Sound” that Bruce Springsteen ...
Jan 17, 2015 · The Broadways, a group born and bred in Asbury Park, rose to fame with its 1964 hit ‘Going Going Gone’ on MGM records, but was by no means the only musical group or artist to cut its teeth in ...
Aug 11, 2021 · Leon Trent, a member of the original Broadways from Asbury Park, has been playing shows at the Jersey Shore and beyond for the last 60 years.
Jan 14, 2015 · Before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the Broadways were the kings of Asbury Park. They owned the summer of '64 in the city with their hit, "Going, Going Gone" on MGM Records.
- Reclaiming History
- A Magnet For Music
- Unknown Creativity
- Slow But Steady Renewal
- 'Moving in The Right Direction'
In the past two years or so, community groups have organized with the mission of reclaiming the West Side's history. Cultural landmarks are being recognized, and Springwood Avenue Park hosts weekly concerts in the summertime. In the shell of the former Turf Club at 1200 Springwood, the last remaining club on the strip, the Asbury Park African-Ameri...
Springwood Avenue was formerly a vibrant center of music in Asbury Park where greats like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller, Sonny Greer, Lenny Welch, the Broadways, Bobby Thomas of the Orioles, Clarence Clemons and more either came up in or played the avenue’s clubs. The music scene on the West Side of the city, which would ...
In the late ’60s, musicians Clarence Clemons and Garry Tallent would regularly perform in the Springwood Avenue clubs. They would later join Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and bring the Sound of Asbury Park, a rhythm and blues-based rock sound not far removed from the R&B and soul of the West Side scene, to fans around the world. “Southsid...
A rediscovery of the West Side began in 2011 when the musicians from the ’50s and ’60s era of the scene convened for an article on the forgotten legacy by the Asbury Park Press.The musicians were later included in a city concert affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution's New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music exhibit in the city. Asbury...
The new interest in the area is part of a current national reckoning and rediscovery of Black American history. “There are similar stories, all with their unique aspects but with similar narratives, being played out all over the country to varying degrees after being buried or communities being displaced,” Souder said. The more notable examples inc...
Jul 25, 2011 · New Jersey guy Billy Brown's 'Moment' in music continues. ... Farmingdale and Asbury Park, where he sang in a group called the Broadways. ... It was during a Broadways show in New York, around ...
Our Mission. Asbury Park Theater Company is dedicated to creating and providing powerful, invigorating, and transformative professional theater and theater-arts education that inspires, celebrates and enriches our community. From new works, reimagined classics to provocative high-energy musical performances, the Asbury Park Theater Company is ...
