© Apalachin Community Press, September 1999



Phil Dirt and the Dozers to Bring Rock 'n' Roll Oldies to Owego

Do you like Rock 'n' Roll? Do you want to hear the best oldies of the 1950's, 60's and 70's?

Mark October 23 on your calendar because Phil Dirt and the Dozers are coming to Owego for a concert at the Owego Apalachin Middle School.

The band is one of the country's premier Rock 'n' Roll Oldies Review, playing the greatest hits of the '50s, '60s and 70's with impressive instrumental and vocal talent, high energy, and contagious sense of humor. Imagine hearing The Four Season's Sherry with the original falsetto vocals intact, the hauntingly beautiful Righteous Brothers' hit Unchained Melody, or Only You performed with all the scratches and skip found on a well-worn 33 1/3 record the way the Dozers learned it.

Members of the band are Steve Cabot, Mark Frye, Rick Frye, Tony Alfano, Chaz Mechenbier, and "Phil Dirt" who is a figment of the Dozer imagination and exists only in their hearts. According to the Dozers, "Phil has become a symbol, a patriarch, an eccentric but favorite uncle, and the gleeful little kid in all of us. He reminds us that you're never too old; that life is short, but good; yesterday is as close as your favorite memory and some good songs; today can one day be a favorite memory; and tomorrow can be... well, Phil thinks you can find the answer to that yourself!"

The concert is sponsored by the Tioga County Council on the Arts as the first in its series of three Master Concerts. In previous years, tickets to the Master Concerts were free. Tickets for this concert $2 per ticket for non-TCCA-members, $1 for members.

Tickets are available at the TCCA office at 181 Front Street in Owego.