Event

The Kennedys

On Saturday, June 1st at 7:30 p.m., Tompkins Corners Cultural Center will present The Kennedys in concert. Husband and wife Pete and Maura Kennedy have traversed a broad musical landscape over more than two decades of travel across the US and UK. Starting out as members of Nanci Griffiths Blue Moon Orchestra, the New York-based duo cite Buddy Holly and The Everly Brothers as primary influences. Their original songs, spanning more than a dozen CDs, are uplifting and encouraging, a tonic to inspire and empower our better angels.

The Kennedys are known nationwide as the hosts of the late lamented Dharma Café program on Sirius Satellite Radio, and on Broadway, they are regular cast members of Theatre Withins annual tribute to John Lennon working in that capacity with Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne, Cyndi Lauper and a host of others.

Originally based in Austin, Texas, they spent a few years in the Washington DC area before moving to the East Village in New York City, where they have been based for most of the last two decades.

Life on the road and time spent in the creative ecosystem of the Village have informed their songwriting over the course of 14 duo albums and half a dozen side projects, and Safe Until Tomorrow, their newest album, is true to that tradition.

In addition to featuring songs from this latest album along with a mix of Kennedys favorites, Pete will be reading short excerpts from his new book, "Tone, Twang, and Taste: A Guitar Memoir."