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October 10,
2004:
John Lennon
Birthday Party in New York
City
On Sunday, October 10,
2004 from 3 to 7 p.m. the Daytrippin' International Fan
Club hosted a party to celebrate John Lennon's birthday
at the Slipper Room in downtown Manhattan! The party
featured live Beatles music, guest speakers, trivia games
and free prizes!
[Photos by Bill
Greenberg]
Pictured (left to
right): Shelley Germeaux, Linda Schultz, Susan Cohen, Jan
Owen, Susan Ryan and Trina
Yannicos.
Our musical
guest: The one-man Beatles band (literally):
Jan
Owen
Experience Jan's highly
acclaimed one-man 'Fab Fouray' show including songs that
would be challenge enough for a four-piece band, let
alone a solo guitarist. You can look forward to the
entire Abbey Road Medley and most amazingly A Day In The
Life, with Jan simulating the 42-piece orchestral
crescendo on his acoustic guitar-- a truly impressive
performance which has to be seen to be believed. In honor
of Lennon's birthday, Jan will also be performing some
classic Lennon solo songs.
Jan just returned
from Liverpool, England, where he performed 8 shows at
the Cavern Club (and 3 other venues), for International
Beatle Week 2004. Out of hundreds of applicants
worldwide, he was one of only 40 acts chosen to perform
there. And, he'll be playing at the Australian Beatles
Festival in Adelaide next June, and has been invited back
to play Beatle Week 2005 next August as well!
Jan is also a songwriter
and has penned over 40 songs. His CD, "Live in Applehead
Studios, Woodstock, NY", features his most requested
Beatles covers, some great classic songs by the likes of
Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Donovan and Elton John as
well as several of his own excellent compositions. Two
lucky partygoers will each win an autographed copy of
Jan's CD!
www.janowen.com
Guest speakers:
John Stevens,
songwriting professor at Berklee College of
Music
Stevens is an
expert on the music of John Lennon. He is the author of
The
Songs of John Lennon: The Beatle
Years
For more than 20
years, he has taught "The Music of John Lennon," one of
the most popular courses in the Berklee curriculum. He
will be doing a presentation on Lennon's musical
genius.
Linda Schultz, Editor
of new Beatles book
Schultz has
compiled the new book, Tales of The Awesome
Foursome, a compilation of stories, poems and essays
about the Beatles written by Beatles fans. Linda
(pictured right) was joined by contributor, Angie
Drummond (left) and session moderator, Susan Ryan
(middle) [publisher and editor-in-chief of Rooftop
Sessions: The Finest in Beatles-related Fiction.
(www.rooftopsessions.com)]
to share their personal memories of the
Beatles.
February
2004:
Daytrippin's
40th Anniversary Beatles
Party in New York
City
On Sunday, February 8
from 2 to 6 p.m. the Daytrippin' International Fan Club
held Daytrippin's Party to Celebrate the Beatles First
U.S. Visit 40 years ago! New York City Beatles fans
gathered at the Croton Reservoir Tavern in midtown
Manhattan for an afternoon featuring special guest
speakers and live music. An extra special treat was that
New York's Classic Rock station Q104.3 sent their D.J.
Ken Dashow over to host the event! Ken is the host of his
own Beatles radio show "Breakfast With The Beatles,"
which airs Sunday mornings, from 7:30 to 8:30
AM.
Pictured above (left to right): Bruce Spizer, Q104's Ken
Dashow, and
Daytrippin' founder, Trina Yannicos. Photos here and
below by Tom Carswell.
Guest speakers at the
event included:
• SID BERNSTEIN,
legendary promoter of the historic Beatles concerts at
Shea Stadium and Carnegie Hall, and author of Not Just
the Beatles; (www.sidbernstein.com)
• BRUCE
SPIZER, author of several books on the Beatles recordings
as well as the new book, The Beatles Are Coming;
(www.thebeatlesarecoming.com)
and
• LARRY KIRWAN,
author of Liverpool Fantasy and member of the band Black
47 (www.black47.com).
Beatles music was
performed by:
• JAN OWEN, a
one-man Beatles band who will be performing at the Cavern
Club during Beatle week this August. (www.janowen.com)
[Pictured above: Jan
Owen performing at Daytrippin's party in Feb. 2004. Photo
by Bill Greenberg]
• THE JANA PERI
BAND, featuring songwriter and producer, Jana Peri, with
Jim Stellato and Rob Holm. ROCKRGRL magazine has selected
Jana's song "Dating Sucks" for their Discoveries 2004
compilation CD to be released in Spring 2004. Jana
(pictured below) will also be featured in the Spring 2004
issue. (www.janaperi.com)
• CARRIE SOOTER, a
native of St. Louis, who made her solo performance debut
at the event.
In-between guest
segments, we had lots of trivia contests and the winners
were rewarded with great Beatles merchandise.
Special thanks to Terre
Grilli, Eloise Keene, Howard Kaplan and Susan Ryan,
editor of the fan fiction website, Rooftop Sessions
(www.rooftopsessions.com)
for their wonderful help at the event! And thanks to Mike
Randolph of Popsie
Photos for
donating a great rare poster-sized photo of the Beatles
that was on display from that infamous weekend back in
1964 taken by his father, photographer William "Popsie"
Randolph.
Meanwhile, on Saturday,
February 7 at 11:30 a.m., Daytrippin' held a special
off-season Fab
4 NYC Walking Tour of Beatle
Sites. During the
tour, our group ran into some reporters from NBC Nightly
News with Tom Brokaw. One lucky tour-goer who had a great
tattoo of John Lennon on his leg, was interviewed and the
segment was shown two days later on the February 9
edition of NBC News.
Daytrippin' is planning
to organize many more Beatle-related events in the future
including local New York City events as well as
travel-related tours across the U.S. Our fan club members
will continue to receive special discounts on all
Daytrippin' sponsored events so make sure you become an
official member of the most FAB club for Beatles fans
TODAY!!
November
2003:
Daytrippin's
Party to Celebrate
the Release of Let It Be... Naked
On Tuesday, November 18,
2003, the Daytrippin' International Beatles Fan Club held
a party to celebrate the release of the Beatles' CD Let
It Be... Naked in midtown Manhattan.
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