'Get Happy Together' Featuring The Turtles Plays Spencer Theater, 8/7

Having sold over 60 million records worldwide, The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie are progressive pop, folk rock legends to the 10th degree. Their shimmering and infectious hits like Happy Together, Eleanor, You Baby, She'd Rather Be with Me, and their impassioned rendering of Bob Dylan's, It Ain't Me, Babe, remain some of the rock era's loveliest tunes, say critics, as they continuously embody a good-humored sense of optimism that still sounds fresh here & now!

During the hey days of their phenomenal success with 10 top-ten singles, The Turtles were fixtures on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour and countless others. In 1970, they were selected to be the first rock and roll band to ever play at the White House (Tricia Nixon's birthday) and yet, the following week, they were headlining at the world-famous Fillmore Auditorium in New York.

What made the group so great apart from their up-beat melodies and progressive sound? Well Flo & Eddie, of course.

Mark Volman (Flo) and Howard Kaylan (Eddie) are the founding members, vocalists,and managers of the venerable group. Their impeccable harmonies, pulsing beats and jovial melodies shine as bright as noontime light. The lifelong buddies are also the band's comedic heart and soul, renowned for adding a zestful clown & prince humor that keeps fun a priority in everything they do.

Their hugely successful run as The Turtles lasted five years, but the duo went on to write, sing and record with other hit groups, most famously as members of Frank Zappa's elite band of musical comedians, The Mothers of Invention. Nine albums and the motion picture, "200 MOTELS" came from that fruitful partnership as did the nom de plume "Flo and Eddie" (as Howard and Mark were not allowed legal use of their own names until multiple Turtle lawsuits were settled). Four Flo & Eddie albums followed on Warner Brothers and Columbia Records.

The duo can be heard singing with John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, The Ramones, Blondie, Duran Duran, The Psychedelic Furs, T. Rex and Alice Cooper. This past year they performed at the star-studded Carnegie Hall at "An Evening with Gavin Friday and Friends" show that Bono and U2 put on for their friend Gavin Friday, also starring such luminaries as Joel Grey, Bill Frisell, Scarlett Johannson, Lady Gaga, Shane MacGowan, Lou Reed and Rufus Wainwright.

They regained their rights to the name "The Turtles" as well as master recordings in 1985, and in addition to writing and recording music for the TV and movie industry, they've enjoyed concert appearances as The Turtles starring Flo & Eddie at more than 50 venues a year.

Together with Flo & Eddie, the band features Joe Stefko on drums, (formerly with Meat Loaf); Don Kisselbach on bass and vocals (formerly with Alice Cooper and Tommy James & The Shondells); Greg Hawkes on keyboards & vocals (formerly with The Cars and a recording artist with Paul McCartney) and Godfrey Townsend on guitar and vocals (formerly touring and recording with The Who as well as Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren and Dave Mason. among others).

Don't miss out on this night of legendary music and performance fun at the Spencer, 8 p.m. Saturday, August 7th! Excellent seats are available for $79 & $76. Call the Box Office at 575.336.4800 or go online to www.spencertheater.com for tickets. Let's get "Happy Together" at the Spencer!

Next up:

• ROY CLARK Sat Aug at 2 p.m. ($59 & $56)& 8 ($69 & $66) Walton Stations of New Mexico presents this multi-award winning banjo & guitar artist, country singer, "Hee-Ha" and Grand Ole Opry entertainer. When I Was Young, , Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go), Rose Colored Glasses, Alabama Jubilee, Malaguena.

• SPENCER LOBSTERFEST FUND RAISER Sat Aug 21 at 6 p.m. ($100) All-you-can eat whole lobster or tails (your choice) and fixings! Cash bars. Snazzy jazz, light rock, blues and soul music at this scrumptious affair!

• NEARLY NEIL AND THE SOLITARY BAND Sat, Aug 28 at 8 p.m. ($69 & $66). Singing the sequin-adorned star's mega-hits like Sweet Caroline, Holly Holly, Red, Red Wine, Kentucky Woman, I Got The Feelin' (Oh No No), September Morn, Cherry Cherry.

• RAY PRICE Tues, Aug 31 at 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. ($ 69 & $66). Legendary western crooner with the 4/4 beat has award-winning hit recordings that go back decades: Your Cheatin' Heart to Stardust, Danny Boy and Good Times to How Great Thou Art, Crazy Arms, Release Me, You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, City Lights and San Antonio Rose. Sponsored by the R.D. & Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation.

WAYS TO ORDER/ BUY Summer Season 2010 Tickets

GO TO THE BOX OFFICE: at the theater at108 Spencer Road, Airport Highway 220, Alto, NM. Business hours are 9 a.m-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For tickets or information call (575) 336-4800 or toll free at 888.818.7872.

ON THE WEB: www.spencertheater.com. The site offers secure ticket ordering.

BY FAX: series and single tickets can be ordered by fax at (575) 336-0055.

BY E-MAIL: single tickets may be ordered at boxoffice@spencertheater.com.

BY MAIL: Donna Clarke, Box Office Manager, Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto, NM 88312

Summer Season 2010 is sponsored in part by The Hugh Bancroft Jr. Foundation, The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, the Inn of the Mountain Gods, Sierra Blanca Motors, Ruidoso Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, R.D. & Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation, Ventanas, The Enjoyment of Fine Southwestern Living, Rainmakers, New Mexico Magazine, Ruidoso.net, area radio stations KRUI-1490 AM NEWS TALK TOURISM & KIDX 101.5 FM, KNMB-96.7 FM, KTUM 107.1 FM, KBIM-94.9 FM, 910 AM Roswell, KWES 93.5 FM, KBUY 1360 AM and KWES 1450 AM Fox Sports; KEDU 102.3 FM, and the publicity support of Ruidoso News and Ruidoso Free Press.

Spencer Theater is a world-class performance hall located in the Sacramento Mountain settlement of Alto, about 12 miles north of downtown Ruidoso. Unique architecture, outstanding acoustics, intimate seating, and excellent artistry are the Spencer's celebrated features. The elegant, award-winning hall, which first raised its curtains in 1997, seats 514, with no seats farther than 67 feet from the 4,770 square-foot stage. The Spencer also has a 964 square-foot outdoor stage that can seat 1,500. From its Spanish mica-flecked limestone face to the crystal lobby, the building itself is a work of art. Free public tours are offered at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the year.

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