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July 8, 2010
Back by popular demand, Summer of Love, a musical revue by Off Broad
Street owners John Driscoll and Jan Kopp, opens an eight-week run on
Friday at the intimate cabaret dessert theater.
Off Broadstreet is offering a double discount for the first two
weekends. Pre-paid groups of six or more will get one free seat, or
pre-paid groups of 12 or more will get two free seats on July 9, 10,
16 and 17. Advance reservations are strongly recommended. Off
Broadstreet may also now be found on Facebook.
The "Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park in January 1967," Monterey Pop
Festival in June of that year, the summer activities of The Diggers
in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and other California events brought
together The Mamas & The Papas, We Five, Simon and Garfunkel, The
Doors, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The
Byrds, Sonny & Cher, Joan Baez and a host of other artists to usher
in the musical and social revolution known as the "Summer of Love,"
considered by many to be the birth of the "hippie movement."
A middle-aged woman was only 12 when a chance meeting with Janis
Joplin at the Monterey Pop Festival changed her life forever. Now, 43
years later, as a tribute to Joplin, she has assembled a rag-tag
group of aged folk singers, The Steel Sieve Band, to help her
re-create the summer of 1967.
Sue LeGate is joined by OBS regulars Chris Crockett, Katie Baker and
Dave Halford, who provide live musical accompaniment to LeGate's
impersonations of Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Mama Cass, Joan Baez,
Cher, Jerry Garcia and a host of others. Suitable for all ages,
Summer of Love offers lots of humor and great nostalgic music.
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