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The Stray Cats image courtesy of Allen Media Strategies
The Stray Cats image courtesy of Allen Media Strategies

Stray Cats 'Summer Reunion Tour' ready to rock Lewiston

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Fri, Aug 9th 2024 02:50 pm

Live at Artpark Amphitheater on Tuesday, Aug. 13

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Multimillion-selling band Stray Cats – original members Brian Setzer (guitar, vocals), Lee Rocker (upright bass, vocals) and Slim Jim Phantom (drums, vocals) – will bring their 2024 “Summer Reunion Tour” to the Artpark Amphitheater in Lewiston on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Tickets are available at www.artpark.net or Tour Dates | Stray Cats.

The tour will cruise through New York City, and Atlantic City before wrapping up Aug. 17 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They’ll be joined in New York City and Bridgeport by The Midnight Cowgirls as the support act.

“With just a string bass, a guitar and a drum, we have always had less instruments and gear, but more rumble, more twang, more shake, and more bang than anyone else,” Rocker said. “Now’s the right time to bring it back!”

These shows will mark the Stray Cats first performances since the release of their critically acclaimed 2019 album “40” and subsequent reunion tour, which they followed with a live album “Rocked This Town: From LA to London” in 2020. Concertgoers can expect to hear the band’s signature unparalleled virtuosity and red-hot rock ’n’ roll spirit via their classic tunes alongside their most recent material. Their setlists will include massive hits such as "Stray Cat Strut,” "Rock This Town," “Runaway Boys," "(She's) Sexy + 17" and "I Won't Stand in Your Way.”

More about the Stray Cats

The Stray Cats, the band that put rockabilly music back on the record charts in the early ’80s, scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a striking, visual 1950s-style brought “up to date” with exaggerated pompadours and colorful tattoos, as well as genuine musical chops that evoked the best players of rockabilly's original heyday. Formed by Setzer, Rocker and Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa in 1979, the trio shared a love for rockabilly music. After banging around New York for a few months, in the summer of 1980, and seeing a pompadoured kid on the cover of U.K. magazine NME, they hopped a plane to London where a rockabilly revival movement was just beginning to emerge.

For more information on The Stray Cats, visit: official websiteFacebook.

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