Darlene Love and The Smithereens will be inducted into The Count Basie Center for the Arts’ Walk of Fame on Dec. 19.
Darlene Love and The Smithereens are both appearing at The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank on Dec. 19 — separately. Love will present her “Love for the Holidays” show at the Basie’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre, at 7:30 p.m., and The Smithereens, featuring singer John Cowsill, will perform in the Basie’s smaller theater, The Vogel, at 8 p.m. (The Smithereens and Cowsill will also be at The Vogel on Dec. 18.
Also on Dec. 19, both Love and The Smithereens will be inducted into the Basie’s new Walk of Fame. They will follow the Walk’s first two honorees, Jon Bon Jovi and the late Count Basie, who were both honored in September.
The Walk of Fame was created as part of the Basie’s ongoing Centennial Celebration. The theater opened on Nov. 11, 1926 as the Reade’s Carlton theater.
The Smithereens’s Dec. 19 concert is sold out, but tickets remain for their Dec. 18 show (click HERE), as well as for “Love for the Holidays” (click HERE).
Love has performed at The Basie many times, over the years. After Smithereens frontman Pat DiNizio died in December 2017, The Basie presented a tribute concert, in January 2018, at which surviving band members performed with Stevie Van Zandt, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Patty Smyth, Marshall Crenshaw and others.
Since 2018, The Basie has been giving out an annual Pat DiNizio Musical Performance Scholarship. This year’s two winners will be announced on Dec. 19.
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