Stray Cats summer reunion tour concludes this weekend in Bridgeport
After a successful run across the US, Stray Cats—original members Brian Setzer (guitar, vocals), Lee Rocker (upright bass, vocals), and Slim Jim Phantom (drums, vocals), the multi-million-selling band’s 2024 Summer Reunion Tour will conclude with the final show at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater (500 Broad St, Bridgeport, CT 06604) in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday, August 17th starting 8:00 pm ET. Tickets are available here.
They will be joined by The Midnight Cowgirls as the support act.
“With just a string bass, a guitar, and a drum, we have always had less instruments and gear, but more rumble, more twang, more shake, and more bang than anyone else,” says Stray Cats, upright bassist and vocalist, Lee Rocker. “Now’s the right time to bring it back!”
The 2024 Summer Reunion Tour marked the STRAY CATS’ first performances since the release of their critically acclaimed 2019 album 40, subsequent reunion tour, which they followed with a live album ROCKED THIS TOWN: FROM LA TO LONDON in 2020. Concertgoers can expect to hear the band’s signature unparalleled virtuosity and red-hot rock & roll spirit via their classic tunes alongside their most recent material. Their setlists will include massive hits such as “Stray Cat Strut,” “Rock This Town,” “Runaway Boys,” “(She’s) Sexy + 17,” “I Won’t Stand in Your Way” and more.
Stray Cats
The Stray Cats the band that put Rockabilly music back on the record charts in the early ’80s, scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a striking visual 1950s style brought “up to date” with exaggerated pompadours and colorful tattoos and as well as genuine musical chops that evoked the best players of rockabilly’s original heyday. Formed by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer, upright bass player Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979, the trio shared a love for Rockabilly music. After banging around New York for a few months, in the summer of 1980, and seeing a pompadoured kid on the cover of UK magazine NME, they hopped a plane to London where a rockabilly revival movement was just beginning to emerge. Their massive hits and videos include “Rock This Town,” “Stray Cat Strut” “(She’s) Sexy + 17,” “Runaway Boys,” and “I Won’t Stand in Your Way.”
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