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April 16, 2007

An Evening with Tommy Allsup and Kevin Montgomery

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Source: Fear Nothing Booking

Tommy Allsup

Tommy Allsup

Tommy Allsup (Buddy Holly) and Kevin Montgomery have announced an upcoming tour that will include dates in various parts of England and Scotland. The tour kicks off on Monday, June 4th, at The Greys in Brighton England.

Back in 1959, guitarist Tommy Allsup lost the flip of a coin with Ritchie Valens for a seat on a plane, and the rest as they say, 'is history'. It was the ill-fated Buddy Holly plane which went on to crash shortly after take-off, killing Buddy, Ritchie and the Big Bopper.

Tommy was the guitarist with Buddy's band on songs like 'It's So Easy', 'Heartbeat', 'Wishing' which of course explains his link to Kevin Montgomery. Kevin's dad wrote 'Heartbeat' and 'Wishing' with Buddy, back in the days before The Crickets, and Kevin has always featured those songs, along with others, in his set when he tours in the United Kingdom.

'An Evening with Tommy Allsup and Kevin Montgomery' will begin acoustically with Kevin and Tommy, playing, singing, sharing stories, and even taking questions from the audience. For the second part of the show they will be joined by Danny White on bass and Paul Griffith on drums to help rock through some of the songs on which has Tommy played during his life-long career.

After Holly's death, Tommy Allsup went into producing the great Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and worked with the likes of Willie Nelson, Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Julie London and Vickie Carr and played with and produced Asleep At The Wheel.

At 75 years of age this is Tommy's first tour of the UK, and first ever visit to Scotland, it will be an un-missable opportunity to see one of the great guitarists with Nashville's finest singer/songwriter.

Show Poster

Show Poster

An Evening With Tommy Allsup and Kevin Montgomery & Band:

Monday June 4th The Greys Brighton England 01273 680734

Tuesday June 5th The Carnival Inn Barton on Humber England 01652 634845

Wednesday June 6th The Cluny Newcastle upon Tyne England 01670 856605

Thursday June 7th The Village Leith, Edinburgh Scotland 07866662497

Friday June 8th Glasgow Accies Club Glasgow Scotland 0780 4447511

Saturday June 9th Selkirk Rugby Club Selkirk Scottish Borders 01670 856605

Sunday June 10th Bein Inn Glenfarg Perth Scotland 01577 830216

Monday June 11th Soul Cafe Maidstone England 01622 744481

Friday June 22nd Quay Arts Centre Newport Isle of Wight England 01983 822490

Saturday June 23rd The Polish Club Bristol England 0870 444 4400

Sunday June 24th Half Moon Putney, London England 08700 600 100

Monday June 25th Star & Garter Manchester England 01670 856605

Tuesday June 26th The Maze Nottingham England 0115 947 5650

For more details, please visit www.kevinmontgomery.com.





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