Ronan Tynan Concert - Peekskill Save the Date

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Hey folks if you are a fan of Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan mark Friday March 14, 2008 on your calendar. Mr. Tynan will be performing at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill. All proceeds will benefit the Sam Oitice Heroes Remembered Memorial. Final contract details are being worked out, look for tickets to go on sale sometime late October at the Paramount box office.

What a way to start the St. Pat's weekend!

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Tickets for the concert are priced at $48,$58 & $68.

Tickets go on sale at the Paramount Center Box Office on November 14 at 12 noon.

Paramount Center

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Ticket sales for this show are now open!!!!!

Hurry, they're going fast!!!

http://tickets.paramountcenter.org/Default...p;pg=2#upcoming

Edited November 14, 2007 by jack10562

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Irish tenor lends his voice to Peekskill firefighters memorial

By BRIAN J. HOWARD

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: November 23, 2007)

PEEKSKILL - Fundraising for a firefighters memorial still has a long way to go, but a little Irish luck has given the project a needed lift.

Ronan Tynan, the "Irish Tenor" who has sung at presidents' birthdays and funerals and at every big New York Yankees game in recent years, will perform a benefit concert at the Paramount Center for the Arts early next year. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Sam Oitice Heroes Remembered Memorial. Tickets are on sale now.

"I'm ecstatic," said Deputy Fire Chief James Howard, the memorial committee's chairman. "I feel that's the boost we needed, to be aligned with such a talent who's been such a friend to all the emergency services."

Fundraising has been a slow go since the Fire Department received a $125,000 state grant for the memorial last year. The total cost is estimated around $300,000. The city has committed to contribute up to $20,000 toward the memorial, which is slated to be erected at Lincoln Plaza off Water Street.

The memorial will include a statue of Oitice, a Peekskill firefighter who died at Ground Zero, and the original fire bell that once called volunteers to emergency scenes. Plans also include a monument to the seven Peekskill firefighters killed in a 1918 fire at the former Fleischmann's factory and to all the emergency responders killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Verdin Co. of Cincinnati has cast the statue and restored the 100-year-old bell, which until March had been mounted at Fireman's Park off South Division Street. Verdin is known for its replica Victorian street clocks.

The memorial's location depends on whether state Department of Transportation engineers determine the former Centennial Firehouse is structurally sound enough to be moved to the plaza, city Planning Director Brian Havranek said. The firehouse must be moved or demolished by spring, when widening and bridge replacement on Route 9 is to begin.

Although recent elections saw sweeping changes in city government, Councilman Don Bennett said support for the memorial is unchanged.

Receipt of the state grant enabled the 17-member memorial committee to move forward with the statue and bell more quickly than planned, committee spokeswoman Sue Sheridan said. Those items have been in storage since their completion.

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For those Yankees fans...this is the guy that sings the National Anthem at all major games, and after 9/11 he was singing at every game in 2002...Excellent voice and wow what a story...all should read his BIO...

Links:

Ronan Tynan Website

RT on Wikipedia

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Tickets and good seats are still available, purchase at the box office or online!

http://tickets.paramountcenter.org/orderti...%26pg%3D1%23abc