Professor 'Louie' & The Crowmatix to Give a Concert at Brookhaven Lab, Nov. 4

The Lone Sharks to Open the Show

October 6, 2005

UPTON, NY - Professor "Louie" & The Crowmatix, a Woodstock, New York-based band that plays a mix of blues, rhythm & blues, and rock, will give a concert in Berkner Hall at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Friday, November 4, at 8 p.m. The Lone Sharks, a local band, will open the show. Sponsored by the BNL Music Club, the concert will be open to the public. All visitors to the Laboratory age 16 and over must bring a photo ID.

Professor "Louie" and the Crowmatrix enlarge

Professor "Louie" (right) & the Crowmatix. Photo credit: Peter Michos. (Click image to download larger version.)

Professor "Louie" & The Crowmatix have played nationally at such well-known clubs as B.B. King's in New York City and the House of Blues in Los Angeles. During the last two years, they have performed at blues festivals in Canada and the U.S., including the Riverhead Blues Festival. This past spring, Aaron Professor "Louie" Hurwitz traveled to Novosibirsk in Siberia to perform "Century of The Blues," the group's fourth studio CD on Woodstock Records. This fall, the New York State Museum is releasing a CD of a live concert by Professor "Louie" & the Crowmatix called "Spirit of Woodstock." Professor "Louie" has produced CDs for such popular performers as The Band, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Dave Nelson.

Gene Casey, a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who is a resident of Long Island's North Fork, founded the Lone Sharks in 1988. Since then, the group has been playing about 150 concerts a year, most of them out on Long Island's East End. Most of their large repertoire consists of original songs penned by Casey. The band plays a mixture of blues, boogie, swing, rhythm and blues, and honky-tonk that is known as American roots music.

Tickets for the concert cost $15 each in advance, and $20 each on the day of the show. Tickets may be purchased in advance from ticketweb.com; or from the Brookhaven Employees Recreation Office on weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; or at the door on the evening of the performance. For more information, call (631) 344-3846.

The Laboratory is located on William Floyd Parkway (County Road 46), one-and-a-half miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway.

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