Shotgun Wedding<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne thing I do know is that this band is filled with outstanding musicians who like to have a lot of fun!\u00a0 Guitarist Dennis DelGaudio has spent time guesting with the likes of The Turtles and our friend from the Niswonger in 2008, Peter Noone (Herman\u2019s Hermits). He has also been lead guitarist, and eventually musical director, on the Broadway smash hit Movin\u2019 Out<\/i>.\u00a0 He was also part of Billy Joel\u2019s historic Last Play at Shea concerts and is now a touring member with Joel.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, Dennis and Wade Preston, piano\/vocalist for Shotgun Wedding, will both be hustling into Van Wert on Friday after finishing a concert with Joel in Boston\u2019s Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
Bassist and vocalist Andy Cichon hails from Australia, but began his U.S. career by touring with Shania Twain and still performs with Shania and Joel.\u00a0He has also shared the stage with Paul McCartney.\u00a0Drummer Chuck Burgi has a resume that reads like a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of rock and pop music.\u00a0He teamed up with Hall and Oates for two platinum albums and two world tours.\u00a0He has also recorded with the likes of Michael Bolton, Diana Ross, Bon Jovi and Meat Loaf.\u00a0He, as well as Andy, Dennis and Wade, also performs with Joel as his drummer.<\/p>\n
Catherine Porter is a native New Yorker and has sung with Michael Crawford, Hugh Jackman, Brian May, Queen, Chaka Khan, Sam Moore and Kiki Dee, to name a few.\u00a0Of all her gigs, she claims singing in Shotgun Wedding is her favorite place to be.<\/p>\n
So, as you can see, the band scheduled to play in Fountain Park this Friday night has quite a resume!\u00a0If you like country music with a New York City twist \u2026 and if you like and appreciate world-class musicians, you won\u2019t want to miss Shotgun Wedding this Friday night in Van Wert\u2019s Fountain Park.<\/p>\n
Of course, if it should rain (and what would the chance be we should ever get rain), we will move the concert into the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.\u00a0Fountain Park scheduled concerts begin at 7 p.m.\u00a0 We all hope we can be outside and enjoy beautiful weather and good food prepared by Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n
Tickets are flying out of the Niswonger box office each day as people are taking advantage of early buying opportunities by bundling three or more concert and saving 10-15 percent.\u00a0Grand Series and Community Concert Series are still being sold, too.\u00a0Care to guess who is in first place as of right now in ticket sales at the Niswonger?\u00a0 The Texas Tenors (who da thunk). Great show, though.\u00a0Lots of people have been seeing their show on local PBS stations this summer.\u00a0I\u2019d want to come, too!<\/p>\n
Pray for good weather and I\u2019ll see you in Fountain Park this Friday night … hopefully!<\/p>\n
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I have to admit, I met Catherine Porter in New York City this past January and now we\u2019re going to have Shotgun Wedding this Friday night in Fountain Park.\u00a0Did I get your attention?\u00a0I hope so, because I think this week\u2019s Fountain Park entertainers are worth seeing and hearing! They claim they are a \u201cCity Country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:20:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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