MUSIC

Legendary entertainer Chubby Checker “twists” onto center stage at The Grand for one unforgettable performance Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8 pm.

Sponsored in part by HomeTown Bank, you’ll hear such famous chart-topping classics such as “Limbo Rock” and his classic dance revolution hit, ‘The Twist.’

Backed by the blazing brass and saxophones of the Wildcats, Chubby Checker will have you twistin’ and groovin’ the night away!

Checker - the only artist to have five albums in the Top 12 all at once - has sold more than 250 million records worldwide and has twenty-three Top 40 hits.

And just released this summer was his two-disc greatest hits album entitled “All The Best” (remastered) with 26 tracks including “Let’s Twist Again,” and “Pony Time.” Comparing him to any American icon takes no stretch of the imagination!

Before Alexander Graham Bell... no telephone. Before Henry Ford... no V8 engine. Before Walt Disney... no animated cartoons. Before Chubby Checker... there was no “Dancing Apart to the Beat.”

Dancing apart to the beat is the dance “we do when we dance apart to anyone’s music with a beat” and before Chubby Checker - it could not be found! It was no secret that “Dancing Apart to the Beat” happened in 2 minutes and 42 seconds on American Bandstand with Checker doing the “Twist”.

The Twist is putting out a cigarette with both feet and wiping off your bottom with a towel - all to the beat of the music. Since Chubby Checker’s debut – almost five decades ago – American dance sensations have evolved from “The Twist” to include “The Pony,” “The Fly,” “The Shake,” and “The Hucklebuck” – all known as “the musical dancing keyboards for ‘Dancing Apart to the Beat.’” Come groove, shimmy and shake the night away with Chubby Checker at The Grand!

For more information please visit http://www.chubbychecker.com/.