OXFORD – The Fort Hill American Legion Post 376 is hosting a fundraising Pork BBQ at the Post home on June 11, from noon to 6 p.m. The Legion’s primary goal is to raise funds for graduating seniors’ scholarships. Door prizes, a raffle, and especially great food, drink, and excellent live music may make some people forget that they’re benefiting the community as they’ll be having so much fun.
The main purpose for the BBQ-Concert is to raise funds for the Legionnaire’s and Auxiliary’s high school seniors’ scholarships. Collectively, Post 376 awards approximately $1000 annually to help offset the rising cost of college tuition for children or grandchildren of American Legion members (veteran or deceased veteran members). To meet their goal, the Legionnaires, the Auxiliary, and Sons of the Legion (SAL) are proud to offer this delicious pork BBQ meal that includes draft beer and wine, and great live music by area blues/rock band, String of Pearls.
String of Pearls (aka SOP) hail from Greene, NY. Band members are Pearl “Singing Skywolf” Reed-Klein - vocals, piano, guitar, and harmonica; Eric G. Porter – guitar and vocals; Jimmy Kolet - bass guitar and vocals; and Ed Michaels - drums, harmonica, and vocals. Drummer Nick Andrews will be playing this event with them. This is clearly no ordinary “local” band; SOP is a dynamic blues/rock band packed with experience and passion.
Lead singer Pearl has a couple of impressive monikers: Dr. Reed-Klein (she has a doctorate in psychology), and “Singing Skywolf”, her Native American given name. She has performed for many years throughout New York and Pennsylvania and has opened shows for Leon Russell, John Lee Hooker Jr, Derek Allman, Jeremy Wallace, Roosevelt Dean and many others. Pearl’s powerful bluesy vocals and crowd pleasing stage performances have earned her the best name, “The Southern Tier’s Queen of the Blues.”
Aside from their own stage performances, Pearl, Eric, Jimmy and Ed’s combined musical credits are staggering. They include world tours, recordings for radio and television programs, as well as major studio recordings, and live theater performances. The list of who’s who that they’ve performed with is too long to list. While they live locally, their talent and experience is far reaching.
