Founded in 1957, Stony Brook University has been a pioneering and leading venue for the presentation of a wide variety of concerts on Long Island. Stony Brook’s storied concert line-ups—particularly in the mid-1960s through the late 1970s—is a veritable dictionary of rock, pop, jazz, folk, blues, and classical music artists. Many of these performers made […]
Read MoreIn 1956, three partners and music-fair impresarios—Frank Ford, Lee Guber, and Shelly Gross—stepped out of a car to inspect an underdeveloped industrial site in Westbury that would, that same year, become the Westbury Music Fair. A brilliant, multicolored striped tent, constructed in Chicago, and 1,700 chairs from New England were set up for the venue’s […]
Read MoreThe original Jones Beach Marine Stadium was a temporary wooden structure built in the early 1930s as a work relief project that was razed in 1945 because it became unsafe. During its lifespan, the wooden stadium earned a reputation for the finest in aquatic sports events and musical entertainment. In October 1949, an artificial island […]
Read MoreThe Old Roslyn address 19 Bryant Avenue resonates with musical legend and history. Originally a dilapidated country-western bar owned by Jay Lenihan, the place was bought by partners Michael “Eppy” Epstein and his cousin Richie Hersch in 1971. After teaming up with local radio station WLIR-FM, My Father’s Place—affectionately known as MFP—quickly became a hotbed […]
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