Electric bands on New Year’s Eve on Bowen
If you want to hear live music New Year ’s Eve and prefer to stay on Bowen, there are at least two choices.
Both the pub and Doc Morgan’s feature parties with electric bands who will play on the last night of 2011 and into the early hours of the first morning of 2012.
The pub has Wasabi Fox, a group of Bowen Islanders including guitar-man Brandon Speight, who happens to also be a member of the 2011 Bowen fastpitch league champs, the Diggers. The band is a tight, hard rock quartet and the night will be easy on the pocket-book with admission only 10 bucks.
New Year’s Eve at Doc’s has a four-course meal and two sittings, the first including baby-sitting. Owner Sean Murdock says he has a contingent of excellent baby sitters all ready to go but by press time tickets for both sittings were going going and very nearly gone.
Murdock said the first sitting is a “New York New Year’s” and they’ll celebrate with the eastern time zone, with bubbly at 9 (midnight E.S.T.).
The Doc’s band, The Dirty Birds, features veteran and uber-talented players including John Stiver, Gino Rutigliano, Brad Ryan and Dave Morris; the music is r and b, rock and New Year’s music.
It’s a four-course meal including a drink before and after the food. The price is $45 per person and $80 for a couple.
Doc’s has hooked up with volunteers at Operation Red Nose and will have folks there ready to provide a ride home for anyone who may need one.
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