HALLOWEEN PARADE ROCK SHOW GOES UNDER COVER WITH LOCAL LEGENDS CHANNELING LEGENDS OF THEIR OWN
Nate Laban, Jon McCormick, Tim McCoy, TimTheriault and more to perform at 9th annual event
(Portsmouth) – Halloween season is a chance to channel whomever or whatever you desire. This year, at the 9th annual Portsmouth Halloween Parade (I Gotta) Rock Show, local rockers will be paying tribute to The Rolling Stones, The Clash, the New Hampshire working class and more. This sonic caldron of homage will boil over on Monday, Oct. 7 at The Coat of Arms at 7 p.m.
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Local rock’s mayor, Tim McCoy, helped assemble the lineup and will be playing with the Super Black Market Clash City Rockers, covering Joe Strummer and Co. The band was formed when the lead singer of Boston’s Watts, Dan Kopko, found a kindred Clash spirit in McCoy. They did a show as a trio, but recently filled the lineup out with Jay Fortin from Supermachine and Scissorfight, and Dan McGary from Tim McCoy and the Papercuts.
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Tim Theriault, whose summer included performing with Grammy winner Sully Erna of Godsmack, took in The Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary tour in June, cementing his resolve to put together a Stones tribute band.
“I’ve been on a Stones kick for 30-plus years and wanted to be a part of the Halloween Parade Rock Show again, so I figured this was the time,” he said.
His band, The Midnight Ramblers, includes the aforementioned & ubiquitous McCoy as well as Watt’s Kopko, Jamie Decato and Kate Redgate on back up vocals.
Nate Laban & Sam Hill is a new three-piece rock band that is one-third Nate Laban and two-thirds The Devil (a.k.a. Cam Gunn and Dr. Jason Lara). Their mission is to write and perform songs for and about working class people from New Hampshire without compromising musical integrity by way of adhering to genre, clothing style, or the odd fake southern drawl. It's high energy, high truth and highly enjoyable.
Jon McCormick and his Wheel of Awesome will close the night with a set that is part jam session, part trivia, part theater and part game show. This promises to be a star-studded extravaganza incorporating local music, cover tunes, trivia and comedy in an unpredictable variety show format where rock show audience members will spin the ‘Wheel of Awesome’ to dictate what the band does next.
New Hampshire’s biggest Halloween parade is brought to you by the people, for the people so a $5 donation will be requested at the door. The parade is not a city-sponsored event. It is staged by volunteers and funded solely by the community, primarily through grassroots events. The Rock Show rises again this year thanks to with thanks to The Coat of Arms for hosting, and sponsors Moxy, Mechanical Forensic Engineering Services and The Wire.
So don’t let the kiddies dressed as Skylanders demanding fistfuls of fun-size Mr. Goodbars have all the fun.The Coat of Arms is located at 174 Fleet St. in Portsmouth. For more information go to spookyportsmouth.com, or friend the Portsmouth Halloween Parade on Facebook.
About the Portsmouth Halloween Parade
Marching into its 19th year, the Portsmouth Halloween Parade is a grassroots, all-inclusive Seacoast celebration of community, creativity, resourcefulness and free expression, which walks, stalks, dances, trumpets and drums its way through downtown Portsmouth each year on October 31 at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited to dress up, gather at Peirce Island by Prescott Park, and march. Hundreds march in costume, thousands cheer from the sidelines, it’s a spectacle from either side of the curb. What are you gonna be?
