By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
The Decatur Chamber’s seventh annual Summer Concert Series got off to an awesome start Thursday as four women – backed up by three guys, including one with Decatur ties – loudly and proudly rocked on the Madison St. Plaza stage for three hours.
Whoa, Man! brought forth such great music that Chamber Executive Director Craig Coshow, making final announcements when the show was over, said to the audience, “We’ll have to have them back.”
Despite light rain falling around the start time for the concert, and some chilly conditions in the last hour or so, the turnout was a good one for the first of 13 shows on consecutive Thursday nights.
Whoa, Man! is out of Fort Wayne, having formed in 2021.
The four women out front on stage – Nevera, Teresa, Suny and Karis – refer to themselves as the sisterhood of rock and say they like to “Woman It Up.”
Their music said it loudly. Everything came from women singers and groups, Janis Joplin to Belinda Carlisle, Toni Basis to Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, Bananarama to the Supremes and Heart – even Nancy Sinatra!
The band’s back row boys, as they are known, are Allen Smith on lead guitar, Mike Grant on drums, and Peter Jacobs on bass.
Jacobs is the son of of Steve Jacobs of Decatur and Candy Johnson Jacobs of Fort Wayne. At one point in the show Peter talked about his ties to Decatur and his grandfather, Louis Jacobs, who was an owner of Holthouse Drug Co.
Next Thursday’s concert will feature one of the most popular bands to perform here, the Sweetwater All-Stars.
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