Doo-Wopp Concert & Dance Party

Join in the Rock-n-Roll fun and memories with the Shining
Stars of Eastern Star on Saturday July 26th, when we welcome Hall-of-Famer
Billy Davis. The Bektash Shrine Center on Pembroke Rd in Concord will be
rocking and rolling from 7pm on. Tickets are $35 per person and can be
purchased from the Bektash Shrine (#603.225.5372). All proceeds to benefit the Shriner’s
Burn Hospital in Boston.

Doo-Wopp producer and entertainer, Harvey Robbins, is
bringing the memories of the 1950s and 60s to NH with Billy Davis. Mr. Davis took
up the guitar and formed Billy Davis and The Upsetters in 1956 – a hot little
group managed by a young Berry Gordy. Eighteen months later he was spotted by Hank Ballard who persuaded him to join the Midnighters. Together they recorded
hit after hit and toured the country incessantly and it was during this time
that he first met and befriended his close friend the young Jimi Hendrix in
Seattle.

Drafted into the army in 1962 he handed both his guitar and
place in The Midnighters over to Hendrix and spent the next two years in Korea.
Rejoining the Midnighters for a three year stint Billy then moved to New York
and quickly became a sought after session guitarist, recording behind a
multitude of artists like Joe Tex, Isley Brothers, Drifters, Ben E King and
Millie Jackson and for numerous companies such as Atlantic, Budda, Dial and
Polydor. In 1974 he moved back to Detroit and got out of the music business.
Nine years later, together with Hank Ballard, they reformed the Midnighters and cashed in on the oldies circuit, which eventually led them to their last hurrah at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1987. From them on he laid down his guitar, apart from gigs in local bars just for the fun of it, until in 2004 when he was

coaxed out of retirement by No Cover Records and recorded the extremely well
received ‘Blue Teardrops’ album.

So grab your favorite girl, hitch up your bobby socks and
poodle skirts, then slap on those blue suede shoes – join us at the Bektash
Shrine Center for an evening stroll down memory lane.