MARK SHURILLA
& THE GREATEST HITS
MARK SHURILLA’S
ROCKIN’ ‘50’s DANCE PARTY ™
A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens & The Big Bopper
& The Winter Dance Party of 1959
For over fifteen years
Mark Shurilla And The Greatest Hits have been performing the music of Buddy
Holly, Ritchie
Valens, The Big Bopper, and artists of The Winter Dance Party of 1959.
We've performed in theaters,
old ballrooms, at festivals, clubs and special occasions.
We are dedicated to performing the music of the ‘50’s & ‘60’s
in the original high energy style the
music was created in. We also spice our shows with anecdotes of the
lives, times, and places of the
performers we feature. This is not an impersonation act, rather a “dedication”
to the spirit of
the founders of Rock And Roll, The great “American” Pop Music.
The performances have
been likened to Hal Holbrook’s take on Mark Twain, where our performances
“get inside”
the music and times of Buddy Holly and his contemporaries, allowing the audience
to feel the drama
of what created this exciting, timeless music.
The Winter Dance Party of 1959, which started in the Greatest Hits hometown
of
Milwaukee and ended in a plane crash in Iowa ten days later, has been called
the “the
most famous tour in Rock history”, by Ellis Amburn in his recent biography
of Buddy Holly.
Its end was called “the day the music died”, in the famous song
American Pie, by
Don McLean.
Whatever the case, the music is fun, to the point, and sincere, and performed
that way by
MARK SHURILLA AND THE GREATEST HITS.
Mark Shurilla
We've just released our new CD!
Check out Our Myspace Page!
Visit
our friend V’ron’s Flickr page
and see her photos of our
2007 Winter Dance Party @
The Clarion Inn!
For Bookings
Contact Mark Shurilla (414) 372-9110
Fax (414) 372-9114