Even if you’ve never been to a sock hop, Quincy native Jocko Marcellino promises "You can rock it, you can roll it, you can slop it, you can stroll it'' when Sha Na Na cuts loose at Hanover Theatre in ...
The power didn't cut out when Sha Na Na performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix at the conclusion of the famously rain-soaked Woodstock festival in August 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. But the Wurlitzer ...
A few weeks ago, Henry Gross was playing before about 2,000 music fans at Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall, sharing a stage with rock ‘n’ roll stalwarts Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Gary U.S. Bonds, ...
Nothing about Sha Na Na’s rise to rock and roll fame was predictable. Born out of an a capella ensemble at Columbia University that sang popular ‘50s tunes, the group eventually picked up instruments ...
Sha Na Na’s 50th anniversary coincides with the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the monumental rock festival in the summer of 1969 that Rolling Stone magazine includes in its list of “50 moments that ...
It’s a warm December day when Jocko Marcellino, the longtime drummer in the classic rock act Sha Na Na, comes on the phone to talk about the band’s new holiday single, “Ugly Christmas Sweater,” though ...
Of all the acts that graced the Woodstock stage that weekend in August 50 years ago, perhaps the most unlikely was Sha Na Na, a group of Columbia University students who previously sang together in ...
For more than 40 years, Sha Na Na has been playing the hits of the 1950s, donning lame’ suits and leather jackets. Last year, the band observed its longevity by releasing “Sha Na Na 40 t h Anniversary ...
The death toll of music-world notables in 2016 continued Friday, with the announcement of the death of Lennie Baker, a longtime member of the rock-and-doo-wop band Sha Na Na. He was 69. His nephew, ...