2010 Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

It's summertime and the time is right...time for cars and guitars, surf and turf at Cha Cha's on the Coney Island boardwark!



Here's alllll the info for the events this weekend. If you're like me and have nothing to do, maybe you'll swing down to catch some tunes, some tan and some titties (there's always a huge burlesque show involved. Yeah, I know, that was an alliteration stretch there...).

Friday Night, September 3rd
Cha Cha's on the Boardwalk
Viva Le Vox (Davy Jones Locker, FL)
Guitar Bomb (Brooklyn, NY)
King Sickabilly (Providence, RI)
Hickry Hawkins and The Panty-Sniffers (Charlotte, NC)
The Holy Roller Sideshow (NYC)
Live Burlesque and Sideshow
$12 advance / $15 at the door

Saturday, September 4th
On the Outdoor Stage
Hickry Hawkins (Charlotte, NC)
Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers (Brooklyn, NY)
Elsa Cross (Dover, NH)
Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. (New York City, NY) - these guys are worth going to see all by themselves!
$8 advance / $10 at the door

Cha Cha's on the Boardwalk
Tombstone Brawlers (New Jersey)
Jason James and the Bay State House Rockers (Worcester, MA)
Mean Mean Man and the Brass Knuckle Band (Charlotte,NC)
The Hollowbody Hellraisers (Gainesville, FL)
Live Burlesque and Sideshow
$12 advance / $15 at the door

Sunday, September 5th
On the Outdoor Stage
Nick Williams and The Anteaters (Staten Island, NY)
The Mallard Drakes (Brooklyn, NY)
The Krank Daddies (Chicago, IL)
Tex Railer’s Doomtown (Allston, MA)
$8 advance / $10 at the door


Cha Cha's on the Boardwalk
Sasquatch and the Sickabillys (Providence, RI) - featuring my buddy Bobcat on guitar!
The Memphis Morticians (NYC) - one of my favorite Psychobilly bands in the city!
Soul Reapin' 3 (New Haven, CT)
Creepin’ Cadavers (Amity, MA)
Live Burlesque and Sideshow
$12 advance / $15 at the door

Monday, September 6th (Remember...no work today!)
Cha Cha's on the Boardwalk
The 2010 Miss Pin Up Coney Island Contest, Hosted by Eddie Dickfingers
Matty B and The Dirty Pickles (Erie, PA)
Nerve Tonic (Dirty Jersey)
Filthy Still (Providence, RI)
Electraluxx (Garfield, NJ)

I'm not going to Myspace link all those bands right now, but you can find more info.....uh, basically in one place (and there's not much more info than that!). Rockabilly events in NYC - always pretty awesome, never very organized...everybody too busy wrenchin' and drinkin', I suppose.

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