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Levitt AMP Ocala: Drifters w/ Billy Buchanan

May 20, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The 2022 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series presents Drifters with opening artist Billy Buchanan on Friday, May 20 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Webb Field at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Complex.
The performance is free. Please bring your chairs and blankets. Food is available from The Fat Tiki Food Truck, The Smoked Biscuit Company, and Kona Ice Ocala. Fun field games and activities with the Ocala Recreation and Parks recreation vehicle.
Each concert in the series features a local non-profit organization working to create art accessibility in our community; tonight’s featured non-profit is Discovery Center.
More information is available at www.ocalafl.org/levittamp or contact Ocala Cultural Arts at 352-629-8447 or [email protected]
HEADLINING ARTIST: Drifters
You know the songs, “On Broadway”, “Under the Boardwalk”, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, “Up on the Roof”, “This Magic Moment”, “There Goes My Baby”, and many more. The songs are etched into the memories of music fans worldwide and helped form part of the foundation of contemporary popular music. What these songs have in common is that they are all the product of a veritable hit-making machine better known to their millions of fans as The Drifters.
The Drifters featuring Rick Sheppard are entering their fourth decade thrilling audiences in the United States, Canada, and worldwide. Their show is high energy and visually entertaining, mixing the classic Drifters repertoire that fans have come to know and love along with hits from the 1970s and 1980s done up in the unique Drifters style.
OPENING ARTIST: Billy Buchanan
Looking for a dynamic entertainer for your next event?! Look no further! Billy Buchanan, The Ambassador of Rock ‘n Soul, will have you swinging and swaying through the decades, from the 50’s to the 80’s and beyond.
SUPPORT MUSIC & ART IN PUBLIC SPACES
Help us preserve accessibility to music and public art in Ocala through your sponsorship and patronage of cultural arts programs in public spaces. Please share this event!
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Levitt Foundation
Marion Cultural Alliance
Ocala Recreation and Parks
Ocala Electric Utility
Downtown Billiards
T-Mobile
Kona Ice Ocala
Angie Lewis State Farm
Two Men and a Truck
The Martial Arts Academy of Ocala
Rasmussen University
TJM Promotions
Mojos Grill and Catering
Production by Oniram Productions, Inc.
The Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with towns and cities across America to activate underused public spaces through the power of free live music, creating welcoming, inclusive destinations. Presenting a broad array of music genres and cultural programming, Levitt venues and concert sites are community anchors where families, friends and neighbors of all ages and backgrounds come together. Learn more at levitt.org.

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Date:
May 20, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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