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If You Go When: Today-Sun. Where: Belvedere Festival Park, Kentucky Center for the Arts, The Galt House in downtown Louisville. Tickets: $15-$40. Call: (502) 763-7623. Schedule: For a detailed schedule of all performances and programs, go to www.abbeyroadontheriver.com. By the numbers Number of bands performing: 75, up from 50 last year. Estimated number of patrons: 30,000, up from 20,000 last year. Number of stages: 10 (seven outdoor, three indoor), up from 6 last year. Number of former Beatles attending: 1. Seriously. Original Beatles drummer Pete Best, who was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, will speak and show clips from his TV documentary Best of the Beatles (10 a.m. Sat. and Sun., Galt House). Number of Beatles managers attending: Also 1. Allan Williams, who booked the band's famous club tours of Hamburg, Germany, in the early '60s and author of the curiously titled memoir The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away, also will speak (10 a.m. Sat. and Sun., Galt House). Number of bands from foreign countries: 10, including The Backwards from the Czech Republic, The Beatrips from Japan, The Greek Beats from Greece and The Repeatles from Sweden. Number of Beatles albums to be performed in their entirety: 6, including Help!, Revolver and Abbey Road. Number of performances honoring individual Beatles: 4. Kind of makes sense, doesn't it? At least 15 bands will team for retrospective programs that combine Beatles-era music along with songs from each member's solo career. |
Abbey Road on the River is produced by Abbey Road on the River LLC, a Kentucky Limited Liability Corporation, and 365 Events, an Ohio Corporation. For more information, call 216.378.1980 or e-mail. "The Beatles" is a federally registered trademark of Apple Corps Limited ("Apple"). Abbey Road on the River is not endorsed by or affiliated with Apple Corps Limited. |