Sha Na Na News

Jon Bauman has been a TV star, a game-show host, a producer and a writer, but at some level, he'll always be Bowzer.

Sha Na Na, performing classic rock from the 50s and 60s, will perform at South Point from Nov.

Rock 'n' roll is here to stay if Lennie Baker has anything to say about it. Will anchor fundraiser in Centerville Saturday Rock 'n' roll is here to stay if Lennie Baker has anything to say about it.

Best-known for the soft rock hit "Shannon," singer/songwriter Henry Gross grew up in a musical family -- his mother briefly performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and Gross himself was playing in the city's clubs by the time he was 14.

"You can't have more fun at a show like this than invite Sha Na Na," says pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch.

The state fair at the fairgrounds in Geddes is only a few miles away from the St.

Sha Na Na, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer, will play Tuesday at the state fair's Chevrolet Court.

Revenge of the nerds? It's apparently getting harder to be hip these days, at least when it comes to language: The life of slang is now shorter than ever, say linguists, and what was once a reliable code for identifying members of an in-group or subculture is losing some of its magic.

A lot of people say they were at Woodstock, but only Alan Cooper can say that he was the lead singer who took the stage right before Jimi Hendrix.

Sha Na Na band mates Joseph 'Joe' Witkin and John 'Jocko' Marcellino, now San Diego residents, played Woodstock 40 years ago.

For most people at Woodstock, the big worries were rain, mud and a shortage of food.

Dennis Greene, who has been a law professor at the University of Dayton for six years, was a member of the musical group Sha Na Na.

The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre will look more like a 1950s high school gym on Tuesday.

In 1971, John Lennon asked audiences to "Gimme Some Truth." Almost four decades later, another performer -- Bowzer of Sha Na Na fame -- had a similar request for the legislature.

Frank Adel, a spirituality student who lives in Mill Valley, will swap his meditation pillow for gold lamA1 2 and leopard skin when he sits in with his former band, Sha Na Na, at the Marin County Fair on the Fourth of July.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will not be making a scheduled trip to Wisconsin on Friday.

WOODSTOCK AND WOODSTOCK TWO. It's been 40 years since the generation-defining event, and Tuesday celebrates the re-release of these much-re-released albums.