Park Theatre presents:
The Insiders - Tom Petty Tribute
with special guest: The Kitten and the Tonics
Friday October 18, 2024
Doors @ 7:00PM | Show @ 8:00PM
18+ or with adult supervision
$20 in Advance | $25 Day of Show
$50 VIP Leather Chairs (Balcony)
$100 Table for four UPGRADE (must still purchase GA ticket(s))
ABOUT THE INSIDERS
Close your eyes and you won’t know the difference. Open them and you still might be fooled. The Insiders present the premier Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers experience. With 6 veteran musicians and decades of combined stage and touring experience, The Insiders are genuinely running down the dream.
It all starts with frontman Max Lockwood. “I grew up listening to Tom Petty. My mom would play the Greatest Hits record while she worked out. I’d sit at the top of the stairs and listen to those songs—it was my most requested CD as a young kid.” In high school, Lockwood’s band Big Dudee Roo started covering Petty songs at their frequent shows in West Michigan. “Tom Petty was part of the great American landscape to me—a legend by the time I was musically conscious. We got a great crowd reaction with Petty tunes, and people frequently commented that I sounded a lot like him.”
Nothing has changed with time. After the passing of Tom Petty in October of 2017, Lockwood organized the band by pulling together some of his favorite musicians for a benefit concert. After a sold-out show that raised thousands for a local domestic violence shelter The Insiders decided they wouldn’t back down. “We try to honor what Mr. Petty and the Heartbreakers have done for rock and roll each night. We’re fans of the music first and foremost. These songs are woven into the fabric of the American identity.” They’ve found no shortage of demand, selling out shows everywhere they go. Local Spins’ John Sinkevics had this to say: “The Insiders set the bar at a new level for Tom Petty tributes.”
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“If you have a propensity for exotica, surf, maybe a heavy dose of rockabilly, and often dreamt what haunting and beautiful music can come of combining those styles, Kitten & The Tonics have made your dream come true.
The husband and wife duo of Stephanie and Charley Redman’s musical chemistry is an energetic mashup of rockabilly and reverb-soaked surf guitar filtered through the ghost of Martin Denny. Backed by the steady and imaginative beat of drummer Jacob Truitt, this little EP hits all of the right notes featuring a sound that is lush and playful with an infectious joy.
...the bass drives the track while the guitar shimmers in the dark like the tip of a freshly drawn cigarette. Grab this one now, kittens.”
— Ken Holewczynski, EXOTICA MODERNE
