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Join us as we welcome the Legendary Scott Fagan to our stage for a live performance, accompanied by Kimberly Naddeo. If you're not familiar with Scott, here's a mini-bio...Scott Fagan’s story is certainly worthy of a movie. A swinging hipster who landed in the ‘60s Greenwich folk scene, after escaping the abject poverty of his U.S. Virgin Islands upbringing, Fagan found himself mentored by Brill Building songwriters, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, and feted as the next big thing. He played a residency at the Cafe Au Go Go on the same bill as a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix (performing as Jimmy James and the Blue Flames), and was lined-up to become the first signing to The Beatles’ Apple Records.
Largely overlooked on its initial 1968 release through Atlantic Records-subsidiary, ATCO, ‘South Atlantic Blues’ inspired a lithograph artwork (entitled “Scott Fagan Record”) by pop artist Jasper Johns. Fagan also co-wrote and starred in the first rock musical to be produced on Broadway, 1971’s ‘Soon’ (based on his experiences in the music industry and co-starring a young Richard Gere), and sired songwriter and indie-rock luminary, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, the son he did not know existed until 1999.
“FULL OF PSYCHEDELIC FOLK, DONOVANISH POP AND STRIPPED-DOWN, BRASS-POWERED, REDEMPTIVE SOUL.”
THE GUARDIAN
“HIS SONGS EMBRACE A BROAD SONIC FANTASIA, SWIRLING IN ’60S NEW YORK R&B AND ’40S JAZZ, AS WELL AS THE CARIBBEAN RHYTHMS OF CALYPSO, MERINGUE, AND PACHANGA.”
NEW YORK TIMES
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16 North Market Street, Mechanicsburg, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17055
