Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bellingham's Classic Rock Group, the Walrus, Celebrates 2006 New Year, 10 Years Making Music

Bellingham's rockin' sea mammals, the Walrus, will accomplish at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar on New Year's Eve, appearance 10 years of absorbing audiences of all ages with archetypal bedrock music.

Bellingham, WA -- The Walrus, one of the Pacific Northwest’s admired archetypal bedrock bands, will brilliant at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar’s New Year’s Eve anniversary Dec. 31.

Bellingham’s rockin’ sea mammals accept been animating nightclubs, association festivals, weddings and clandestine parties in western Washington with archetypal bedrock music back the casting formed afterward a New Year’s Eve affair in Bellingham 10 years ago. As allotment of this Dec. 31 festivities, the 5 accomplished musicians in The Walrus (http://www.tusktusk.com) will accomplish aboriginal songs from an accessible CD as able-bodied as a repertoire of favorites by the Beatles, Eagles, Roy Orbison, Kansas, and added rockers.

This year’s New Year’s affair begins at 9:30 p.m. at the Fairhaven. Cover allegation of $15 per being includes adulatory albino toast, hors d’oeuvres and affair favors, if purchased in advance. Otherwise, $20 per being at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased from the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar (360) 671-6745 (http://www.fairhavenpub.com).

The Walrus includes 5 acclimatized able musicians, three of whom were allotment of the aboriginal agreeable accumulation that began arena Beatles’ awning tunes calm at a clandestine affair 10 New Years ago in Bellingham. Singer and keyboardist Jamie Shea and bagman Michael O’Neal were assuming music in the now asleep Chrome Dinette at the affair if one of the guests asked if he could play a few songs during the band’s break. Singer and guitarist Chuck Dingee anguish up arena Beatles songs with Chrome Dinette associates through the aurora of the 1996 New Year, and a new casting — the Walrus — was formed.

Walrus advance guitarist Joe Young and bassist Walt Burkett now annular out the harmonies with Shea, O’Neal and Dingee, and the casting has been absorbing crowds throughout the Pacific Northwest with archetypal bedrock music for all ages.

Because all casting associates are accomplished singers, the Walrus can accomplish songs a lot of awning bands would never anticipate of even aggravating live, such as Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." The band’s vocally affluent and intricate arrange cover songs by the Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Manhattan Transfer, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Bonnie Raitt, the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

The Walrus will aswell play some aboriginal songs on New Year’s Eve, including "Guy's Song," accounting for the backward Guy Mulford who played violin, keyboard and guitar at the Walrus’ aboriginal accessible gig in 1996 and who died on Jan. 1, 2001.

For added advice about the Walrus, its archetypal bedrock repertoire or the New Year's Eve anniversary at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, go to http://www.tusktusk.com.

Contacts:
Chuck Dingee
360-647-5106
The Walrus
http://www.tusktusk.com/

Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar
360-671-6745
1114 Harris Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
http://www.fairhavenpub.com


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