Typifying country music’s work ethic, David Bellamy of The Bellamy Brothers didn’t even get off the road to get married. Sporting a bus filled with wedding cake and champagne and trailing tin cans and cowboy boots, Bellamy and his brother Howard stopped at a historic plantation at Eden State Garden Park in northern Florida so Bellamy could marry Texas native Susan Bond in an outdoor ceremony.
The groom, along with his brother and the ushers, wore a Confederate officer’s uniform, while the bride and her attendants were attired in antebellum-style gowns. Family and friends, including some Northerners wearing Union officers’ uniforms, helped the couple briefly celebrate at Seaside Resort in Seaside.
— On the Record: Larry Stewart, now gone solo with an album titled Down the Road after becoming familiar to country fans as the lead singer of Restless Heart, says he thinks that after his years with pop-ish Restless “a lot of people were pleasantly surprised to hear my voice with fiddle and steel guitar behind it” on his debut solo single, Alright Already.
“What you hear on Down the Road is really a little bit of what we were doing in the very early Restless Heart, and a whole lot of what I was doing in the years before Restless Heart. It’s just a little more earthy, a little more country, and a little simpler than anything people have heard me do these past few years. What I feel like I’ve done here is kind of go back to basics. This is really the kind of music I grew up with and the kind of music I sang for three years before I joined Restless Heart, when I was making my living on Music Row singing demos.”
— On the Road: After a long string of Western (New Mexico, California, Texas and Nevada) shows, the Texas Tornados swing into the Midwest with dates in Milwaukee June 28 and 29 and in Chicago June 30. …
The Statler Brothers’ 1993 guests at their 24th annual July 4 Happy Birthday U.S.A. Celebration in Staunton, Va., will be Janie Fricke and Rex Allen Jr., regulars on the Statlers’ hit weekly series on The Nashville Network. …
Travis Tritt, Trisha Yearwood and Little Texas reportedly filled all but about 200 of the thousands of Radio City Music Hall seats in a recent episode in the “Country Takes Manhattan” campaign. …
Such acts as Diamond Rio, Lorrie Morgan, George Jones, Conway Twitty, the Oak Ridge Boys, Lee Greenwood, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Milsap and Louise Mandrell will be featured at the new Alabama Theatre in Myrtle Beach, S.C., after it opens July 2. Alabama, which was a bar band in Myrtle Beach when it began its rise to fame, reportedly will play 10 to 20 shows of its own annually in the $6 million, 2,200-seat venue.
DYLAN SETS MIAMI SHOW
Bob Dylan is returning to town on a double bill with Carlos Santana.
The classic ’60s musicians will play Sept. 22 at Miami’s Knight Center. Tickets are $40 and $30 and will go on sale today at all Ticketmaster outlets and the box office.
Also on sale are tickets to the South Florida Blues Festival starring B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells and others. The show is Aug. 22 at Miami’s Bayfront Park. Tickets are $22.50 in advance; $25 day of show.
Jon Stoll, owner of Fantasma Productions, says the blues fest also will include some “down-home blues cookin”‘ and crafts and exhibits. Gates will open at 3 p.m. The music starts at 5.
Call Ticketmaster, 966-3309 (Palm Beach), 523-3309 (Broward), 358-5885 (Dade).
— DEBORAH WILKER
TODAY’S MAIN EVENTS MUSIC
— MICHAEL FRANKS, jazz singer, is booked at 8 p.m. at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Tickets are $21 to $29.50. Call 1-407-832-7469 or Ticketmaster, 966-3309 (Palm Beach), 523-3309 (Broward), 358-5885 (Dade).
— STANLEY TURRENTINE, jazz saxophonist, is booked at 8:30 and 11 p.m. at Musicians Exchange, 729 W. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets are $11 to $15. Call 764-1912 Broward, 944-2627 Dade.
THEATER
— HARRY HOUDINI, I LOVE YOU, the drama that won the Ninth Annual White-Willis Theatre New Playwright Competition, is scheduled to open at 8 p.m. at Broward County Main Library Theatre, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets are $25. Call 1-305-721-9411, 1-305-752-1718.
— SILENT ECHO, a mime revue starring Darby Hayes, is scheduled at 8 p.m. at Broward Community College, Lecture Theater, 3501 SW Davie Road. Call 1-305-475-6840.
SUNDAY IN ARTS & LEISURE
West Palm Beach art conservator James Swope is waging a battle against time, the elements and previous retouchings to restore the 1615 painting The Flight of Lot and His Family From Sodom.
