Music students using their talents to make a difference in children’s lives

February 26, 2010
by Susie Pender

Put on your bellbottoms and shades and rock out this Sunday night, February 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Pulse Theatre in Katonah where the students of Kilroy Productions, the Ossining-based music school, will present The Psychedelic 60’s Benefit Concert for Cherish Our Children International.

Twenty students, ages 8-18, and eight faculty members from Kilroy Productions, will entertain on guitar, bass, drums, viola and synthesizer, as well as vocals, old favorites from the ‘60’s. The play list includes:

Love Me Do (the Beatles)

Brown Eyed Girl (Morrison)

Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones)

Blackbird (Paul McCartney)

All Along the Watchtower (Dylan) 

House of the Rising Sun (Martin & Turner)

Far from the Home I Love (Fiddle on the Roof) 

The Star Spangled Banner (a la Jimmy Hendrix)

If Ever You Would Leave Me (Lerner & Lowe) 

Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)

Disney Medley (Sherman)

Stand By Me (Ben E. King)

These Boots Were Made for Walking (a la Nancy Sinatra) 

Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In (MacDermot)

Like a Rolling Stone (Dylan) 

It’s My Party (Wiener/Gluck/Gold)

Jerry Fishman, the president and owner of Kilroy Productions, became involved in fund-raising for good causes after 9/11. “I swore I would never be on the sidelines again. So right after Hurricane Katrina, we put 70 performers together in six weeks for a benefit concert at the Tarrytown Music Hall and raised $14,000.” Shortly after that, he was invited to join the board of Cherish Our Children International, and has held an annual fund-raising concert for them for the last three years.

The concert, he believes, provides an opportunity for children who study at his music school “to make a difference with their talent for other children.” 

The concert will take place at The Pulse Theatre, on Route 117 Bypass in Katonah. (When you get off the Saw Mill River Parkway going north at Harris Road, take a left at the stop sign, then a right on Harris Road, then a left onto the Route 117 Bypass. The Pulse Theatre is in the small shopping center on the left.) The recommendation donation is $10.