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04/14/2023

Another Show Added!

Vanilla Fudge is coming to Kent Next Month!

Vanilla Fudge - Live at The Kent Stage
- Sunday, May 7th at 7:30 P.M.!
- Pricing: All Tickets Reserved - $30

**Tickets go on-sale beginning Monday, April 17th at 10 A.M. EST**
- Purchase Tickets online at kentstage.org
- You may also purchase at our Box Office during normal business hours!

**There will be a special Friends of The Kent Stage Members-Only Pre-Sale this Saturday, April 15th from 10 AM to 10 PM, Email with access info to follow to our current members**

Vanilla Fudge was one of the first American groups to infuse psychedelia into a heavy rock sound to create “psychedelic symphonic rock” an eclectic genre which would, among its many offshoots, eventually morph into heavy metal. Although, at first, the band did not record original material, they were best known for their dramatic heavy, slowed-down arrangements of contemporary pop songs which they developed into works of epic proportion!

04/14/2023

Deko Entertainment is very excited to bring Vanilla Fudge guitarist Vince Martell to our “Up Close and Personal” series. Vince will be playing Fudge classics and others on May 20th. Come on down and hang out with Vince, take some pictures, have him sign some stuff, and get some great swag in the Deko gift bag.

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04/14/2023

03/27/2023

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💥JUST ANNOUNCED!💥 Vanilla Fudge is coming to The Landis on Saturday, May 6th at 8:00 PM!

🎟Tickets on sale now: etix.com/ticket/p/6587953

It's fair to say nobody had heard anything quite like Vanilla Fudge when the band burst onto the scene in August 1967 with their cover of The Supremes’ hit You Keep Me Hangin’ On.

The members of Vanilla Fudge came from the thriving Long Island rock scene of the mid 60s. Tim Bogert, Mark Stein and Vince Martell were in a band called The Pigeons playing the same circuit as The Hassles (which included a youthful Billy Joel) and The Vagrants (with Leslie West, later of Mountain).

It was a competitive scene, and playing covers was an obvious way to get an audience’s attention. But The Pigeons were increasingly aware that their drummer was not strong enough for the style they were developing. So they poached Carmine Appice from another band.

“We needed someone with more chops, and Carmine definitely had that,” Bogert says. “And he could sing too, which meant there were now four singers in the band.”

“When I got together with these guys it was, ‘Great voices, great musicians’,” Appice says with a Brooklyn/Italian accent that could grace any episode of The Sopranos (and the sharp dress sense to match). “The other bands didn’t have the vocals that we had. We’d listened to the doo-wop, the R&B and the Motown, and they didn’t have the chops that we had. The other drummers weren’t technical like I was. There were certainly no other bass players like Tim. Maybe there were guitarists like Vince, but Mark was certainly better than most of the other keyboard players around.."

The band has a rich history... the above was only the beginning, and they are still going strong today. Don't miss your chance to see them LIVE at The Landis on Saturday, May 6th at 8:00 PM!

02/18/2023

To all my friends and family the operating was a success