The Drifters- CANCELLED

We want to thank you for your patience over the last month since our announcement to cancel the fall portion of the Celebrity Concert Series. Each week we have been evaluating the possibility of future performances scheduled from January to March. As we receive updated directives from state officials and the Southwest Public Health Department along with information of increasing Covid-19 cases in our area, we feel it is best to postpone the remaining Celebrity Concert Series season for the health and well-being of our community.

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The Drifters were the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with fellow inductees The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Supremes. Rolling Stone magazine, in their iconic issue “500 Greatest Rock and Roll Performers” said of the Drifters, “No group has done it this well for this long–no one, not even the Rolling Stones.” Through their historic journey which began in the 1957, the Drifters have had no less than 5 legendary lead singers including Rock and Roll hall of Famers Clyde McPhatter and Ben E. King. Such stalwart and famed individual lead singers as Charley Thomas, Bill Pinkney and Johnny Moore have passed through the group over the years, each recording their share of Drifters hits. And today, as has been the case for nearly 25 years, their star lead singer is Jerome Jackson.