The Baby Boomer Reunion Concert lights up the Farmington Centene Center stage for the 22nd straight year during its annual time slot of the first Friday and Saturday in August. This year’s event will be held on August 2nd and 3rd at 7 pm each night with a 1 pm Saturday matinee.
As always, the production features 50 outstanding musicians from all styles and backgrounds who come together for one weekend each year to recreate the greatest popular music ever recorded. This live concert experience ushers back wonderful song remembrances from the 30-year, Baby Boomer era of 1955 (the first year of the pop charts) up through 1984. All performers in the production have local ties to the region, either living here now or having grown up in the surrounding area.
Throughout the concert, the detail of the sound and presentation of the music is given the all-star treatment as the musicians switch in and out in different combinations on every song. The theme for this year’s reunion concert is “Family Ties,” meaning each song performed in the show is not only a Top 40 hit, but the original recording contained performances by at least two siblings, a husband and wife, or a parent and child within the group.
One of the attractions that comes with the custom of the Baby Boomer Concert is to incorporate a wide variety of musical styles into the foundation of the show. This year’s line-up is no exception. To demonstrate those extremes in styles, here is a list of a few of the artists whose music will be featured: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Miami Sound Machine, Kinks, Kool and the Gang, Everly Brothers, Carpenters, Creedence Clearwater Revival, McGuire Sisters, Captain and Tenille, Heart, Mamas and the Papas, Partridge Family, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Paul McCartney and Wings, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Earth Wind & Fire, Osmonds, Styx, Allman Brothers and many more.
All songs will be recreated on stage in the same manner that they would have been performed when originally released by each artist and not as cover tunes, a requirement that sets this show apart from all others, year after year.
The Baby Boomer Reunion Concert came into existence 22 years ago in August 2003 as the inaugural production for the opening of the Farmington Centene Center. This concert was created as a “gift to the community,” and has grown from one show that was one-third full to three annual, sold-out performances since that very first day with a sold-out crowd of 730 seats.
Tickets are available for $13 at the Farmington Civic Center.
