Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, 5th District will open the 16th Annual Summer Concert Series

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich will be on hand Saturday, July 7th to kick off the 16th Annual Summer Concert Series in the Amphitheater at Farnsworth Park.

In honor of Supervisor Antonovich, we will open the show with the presentation of our Nations Colors. Altadena Explorers Company  # 7 will present the colors after which SSGA Board Member Tom Joyce will lead us in the singing of our National Anthem.

Commander of the Altadena Station, Captain John S. Benedict will offer opening remarks and will then introduce our Supervisor.

Supervisor Antonovich will offer his remarks and then introduce THOSE MANNING BHOYS and the IRISH PRIDE DANCERS.

Those Manning Bhoys; Altadena’s own. For the eighth consecutive year the brothers Mike and Sean Manning will be bringing their musical variety styling’s to the Amphitheatre at Farnsworth Park. This year’s show will be a slight departure from the strictly Irish moods of the past years.  

       The Manning family moved to Altadena in 1948. As the oldest and youngest of a family of eight, the brothers have decided to get a little more personal this year. As a couple of Baby-boomers living and working in Altadena, Mike and Sean want to give a little sense of what it was like to grow up and in a small house with 10 people. Their father Raymond, and their mother Sis, raised the boys and their six brothers and sisters in a strict working-class Irish Catholic household on Altadena’s West side, just below Farnsworth Park. This night will also mark the debut of Mike’s original song, “Altadena: A Boomer’s Story”

       Joining the Brothers this year will be their close friend and fellow musician Billy Arcila, an instructor at Pasadena City College who will play his original classical guitar compositions. Also joining the Bhoys on stage will be a quintet from the Los Angeles Scottish Fiddler’s, who specialize in Cape Breton style fiddle musician upbeat and downhome style of music from the Scots who settled in that area of Nova Scotia. Accordingly, Sean and Mike will be debuting four Scottish folk songs including two well-known pieces by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

The 16th Annual Summer Concert Series is made possible by our generous sponsors: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, Monte Cedro, The Rotary Club of Altadena, Baietti-Seyffert Podley Realtors, Athens Services, AltadenaBlog, Georgia Rutherford in Memory of Don Rutherford, Toyota of Pasadena, Pro Image transfer, M & M Printing & My Irish Pride & All American Audio Visual.

Food service sales provided by El Patron Mexican Food Restaurant, beer & wine sales by The Rotary Club of Altadena.