{"id":19086,"date":"2024-08-30T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=19086"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:37:57","slug":"hot-night-hot-rock-as-chamber-series-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/hot-night-hot-rock-as-chamber-series-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot night, hot rock as Chamber series concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of hard-rockin’ area musicians brought down the curtain on the Decatur Chamber’s 2024 Summer Concert Series Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its first appearance on the Madison Street Plaza, City Lights turned out the lights on this year’s series, the 13th consecutive Thursday night over three months bringing out a nice-sized crowd on a hot night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White Noise, a group of young local guys, got the night of rock off to a great start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was 87 degrees with 67% humidity as Fort Wayne-based City Lights kicked off its presentation of nearly three full hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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City Lights<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Classic rock was their thing, the band said, and there was plenty of it Thursday night: Mellencamp to the Stones, Journey to Foreigner, ZZ Top to the Doobies, even Loverboy and Metallica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how’s this for diversity: the Commodores and Alannah Myles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six of the seven band members performed vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Lights traces its roots to 1979 when two current members of the band \u2013 lead vocalist\/guitarist Dick Swary of Payne, Ohio, and drummer Wally Hull of Latty, Ohio \u2013 played together in a band called Spice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Lights performs throughout the area, and earlier this year has been in Monroeville, Harlan, Warsaw and Celina, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHITE NOISE: The rockin’ started early, with White Noise hitting it hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White Noise<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The five guys (who brought their own cheering section) performed three songs, including \u201cWar Pigs\u201d by Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, City Lights posted this on its Facebook page: \u201cShout out to the teen band White Noise that played before us. It restores my faith in the next generation to here (sic) young people playing Black Sabbath!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band, which has only been together a couple of months, according to lead singer Nick Dague, is comprised of Izaak Bobay, 17; Mason Moser, 17; James Adkeen, 15; Jaxson Braun, 17; and Dague, 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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