ROCK & ROLL RECITAL XIII

DANVILLE VILLAGE THEATRE

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011

Local Promoter, Chester Farrow, Brings 55 Guitar Students
Plus Instructor Bruce Hock To The Big Stage
Tickets On Sale Now
Event To Be Webcast Free Worldwide

Danville, CA (April 25, 2011) -- Promoter Chester Farrow is pleased to announce the 13th annual Rock & Roll Recital (www.rockandrollrecital.com) at its home in Danville at the Village Theatre, 233 Front Street, Thursday May 12. Showtime is 7:00 pm and doors open at 6:30 pm. The annual event is a showcase opportunity for 55 local guitar students from instructor and renowned musician Bruce Hock's guitar classes to perform on a big stage in groups, both acoustic and electric. Tickets for the event are $30.00 ($25.00 for seniors 55 and over and children 18 and under) and are available at www.villagetheatreshows.com or by calling 925-314-3400.

Farrow, a retired broadcast media school teacher from Monte Vista High School in Danville, produced many concerts at that venue's storied theater in his 32 years of teaching. Some of the shows included artists such as Huey Lewis and the News, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, Greg Kihn Band, Greg Douglass, Y & T, Journey, Joe Satriani and Boz Scaggs to name a few. Chester, in April, kicked off his 43rd year as scoreboard operator for the Oakland Athletics.

The Rock & Roll Recital was started at Monte Vista in 1999 as a showcase for Bruce Hock's guitar students. Hock, who is a fixture in the East Bay music scene, has taught guitar for 34 years in Danville and counts Dan Vickrey of the Counting Crows, Jason Hammon of the Dance Hall Crashers, and Kevin Feyen of the Black Eyed Peas as former students. Bill (Guermo) Muniz, owner of the New Mecca Café in Pittsburg, and his friend Daniel Zwickel will also perform. Muniz was inducted into the first Contra Costa Hall Of Fame class.

The event, for the fourth time, will be webcast, free, worldwide. Some of Farrow's former Monte Vista students will produce the webcast. These professionals have gone on to successful and lucrative careers in television and radio engineering, editing and directing as well as other careers in the entertainment industry. The webcast and concert production are made possible though generous donations by Larry Harwood, Steve Lamsey, New Mecca Café in Pittsburg, CA and Prime Time Entertainment in Livermore, CA. The address for the Webcast is www.rockandrollrecital.com/webcast.html