A very special fundraiser event is coming up November 28th at the Beef House. Thanksgiving Weekend will conclude with The Lettermen singing at 3 PM Sunday, in the Beef House Banquet Hall. This vocal concert, which will include Christmas songs from the Lettermen, will go directly to fund Women’s Cancer Research at Cleveland Clinic. Bobby Poynton first joined the Lettermen back in the late 80s. He points out, this research funding helps in the constant battle for everyone’s health.
AUDIO: Folks are dealing with all sorts of different illnesses, and Cleveland Clinic’s on the forefront, with every kind of new technology.
Poynton also mentions, Cleveland Clinic does good for people well beyond the Lake Erie region.
AUDIO: I think the most important thing is that we need to understand that Cleveland Clinic just doesn’t represent people in Cleveland, it represents people and helps people all across the country. I’m glad that we can be a part of helping make this great facility; keeping their doors open in these crazy times.
As for as the music you’ll hear on the 28th goes, Poynton says if you’re a fan of a certain Lettermen Christmas album, you won’t be disappointed.
AUDIO: There was a great album that the Lettermen did in 1966 that’s one of the best all-time selling Christmas albums in the history of Capital Records. So we’ve got some wonderful arrangements to pull from that album, and we do some new things too.
Poynton says, groups like the Lettermen have seen personnel changes, but the songs stay strong, because they were written by the best songwriters.
AUDIO: Back in the day you had songwriters that wrote the songs and singers that sang them. Things kind of changed in the 60s when a lot of the performers started writing their own material, and things became kind of proprietary for some of them. Back in the early days of Capital Records you just had the best, best song writers. That’s what we stay true to is that sound that was created all those years ago.
Tickets are for the show only, but you can certainly eat while you’re there. Call the Beef House Dinner Theatre box office at 217-499-5355, or vist beefhouserolls.com.
