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Jimmy Sturr concert is ‘Music for Heroes’

Pennsylvania’s Music Preservation Society (PAMPS), in collaboration with the Ritz Barbecue, Allentown, will present “Music For Heroes,” a concert featuring Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra with opening act Steve Brosky, noon-7 p.m. June 26, MainGate, 448 N. 17th St, Allentown.

PAMPS will provide “Music for Heroes” table seating for military veterans’ groups and members of volunteer medical organizations of Lehigh County. Tickets will be distributed free of charge by the event’s honorary co-chairs, Allentown Mayor Ray O’Connell and Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong.

Sturr is an American polka musician, trumpeter, clarinetist, saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, the country’s most popular polka band.

In addition to receiving five gold records, Sturr has won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album, is on the Top 10 list of all-time Grammy Awards recipients, and has received more consecutive Grammy nominations than any other artist.

Brosky has been writing, recording and performing for audiences in his native Allentown, as well as venues in the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and New York for decades.

Brosky has opened for Warren Zevon, B.B. King, Leon Russell, and the Beach Boys.

Brosky’s group, The BBC, had a novelty hit with “Hey Now (Do The Dutch),” an answer song to Billy Joel’s “Allentown.” Brosky’s most recent CD is “Still.”

In 2015, the late director George Miller co-wrote the stage show, “Living Here in Allentown: Steve Brosky, the Musical.”

There will be food available, as well as vendors and craftsmen tables.

Tickets: www.pamusicsociety.org

Jimmy Sturr