Simon & Garfunkel Songbook with Aztec Two-Step 2.0
The music in The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook Show speaks for itself and is anchored by Rex Fowler (acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocals), co-founder of the renowned folk-rock duo Aztec Two-Step whose self-tiled debut on Elektra and three subsequent albums on RCA were staples of progressive FM and college radio and helped to usher the music of the 1960s into the 1970s and beyond. His wife Dodie Pettit, an original cast member of the acclaimed Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera, joins Fowler on lead guitar, keyboards and vocals. Multi-instrumentalist Steven Roues and drummer-percussionist Peter Hohmeister round out the band.
The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook Show also features rare early video footage of Simon & Garfunkel assembled by Tony Traguardo, a music archivist, podcaster, and WCWP-FM radio show host, who serves as the show’s narrator and emcee. Traguardo also edited Fowler’s recently published memoir entitled See, It Was Like This … The show’s storyline was created by the late Pete Fornatale, a pioneer of progressive FM radio in New York and author of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends, a book about the making of the duo’s classic 1968 album.
The iconic career of the enduring folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel will be chronicled in an entertaining music and multimedia stage show presented by Aztec Two-Step 2.0 at the 260-seat Boulton Center for the Performing Arts (37 West Main Street, Bay Shore, NY, 631-969-1101) on Saturday, Nov. 2. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show may be purchased online via a link on the Boulton Center’s website, https://boultoncenter.org, or at the box office.
