Fri Aug 3, 8:00 PM - Fri Aug 3, 11:00 PM
3865 N Wickham Rd, Melbourne, FL 32935

Community: Melbourne

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Join us this summer as the immensely popular Hippiefest tour featuring Vanilla Fudge, Rick Derringer, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and Badfinger featuring Joey Molland. They return to celebrate an incredible era in music and American culture.

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Join us this summer as the immensely popular Hippiefest tour featuring:
- Vanilla Fudge
- Rick Derringer
- Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and Badfinger featuring Joey Molland

They return to celebrate an incredible era in music and American culture.

Vanilla Fudge was one of the first American groups to infuse psychedelia into a heavy rock sound to create "psychedelic symphonic rock," an eclectic genre which would, among its many offshoots, eventually morph into heavy metal. Their self-titled debut album, Vanilla Fudge, quickly rose up the charts to #4 without the aid of a big hit single. In 1968, the group performed their heavy-rocking, trippy, psychedelic version of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" on The Ed Sullivan Show and released their second album, The Beat Goes On, that also escalated into the Top 20. Over the years, the band (now consisting of Stein, Martell, Appice and eight-year member, bassist/vocalist Pete Bremy) has continued to perform and record together. In 2016, they released their most recent studio CD, titled Spirit of '67. Last year, Vanilla Fudge celebrated their 50th Anniversary!

When guitar slinger Rick Derringer breaks into his legendary rock anthem, "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo," you'll likely see many an air guitar in the audience. Now more than four decades after its release, the hugely popular hit continues to be a staple on classic rock radio and has been featured in several movies over the years. It's a little known fact that before his success as a solo artist, Rick had a band at the age of 17 called The McCoys that had a #1 hit in 1965 called "Hang on Sloopy." In 1966, Rick and the band would find themselves opening up for the Rolling Stones on their entire American tour. Although "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" was written and recorded a few years earlier with friend and legendary guitarist Johnny Winter, it would be Rick's solo version in 1973 that would propel him into the stratosphere of rock stardom. In the past few years, Rick has performed on a variety of package tours including Rock'n'Blues Fest, Rock Legends and Hippiefest.

The hits began for Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels at the tail end of '65, with the release of their first hit single, "Jenn

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