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Avenel Performing Arts Center presents A Tribute to John Prine with Joe D'Urso & Friends

originally published: 03/14/2025

(AVENEL, NJ) -- Avenel Performing Arts Center presents A Tribute to John Prine with Joe D'Urso & Friends on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 7:30pm. Artists scheduled to perform include The Ready For Prine Time Players: Michelle Solomon, Gary Solomon, Loren Korevec, Chris Brown, Jake Thistle, Michelle Solomon, David Frye, Chihoe Hahn, and Joe D'Urso.

“Through the pandemic, I listened to John Prine more than any other songwriter, by far,” says Joe D’Urso. “It was just a kind of optimism and a bright light in a dark time. Even when he’s talking about a horrible situation, there’s still the humor.”

A group billed as Joe D’Urso & Friends — also featuring Loren Korevec, David Frye, Tim O’Donohue, Gary Solomon, Michelle Solomon, Christopher Brown and Jake Thistle, present two show’s a year: one that marks John’s birthday each October and one that marks his passing each April.

Tickets are $32.50 (plus fees) and available for purchase online.  Avenel Performing Arts Center is located at 150 Avenel Street in Avenel, New Jersey.

Prine, whose best known songs include “Angel From Montgomery,” “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Please Don’t Bury Me,” “Paradise” and “All the Best”, died in 2020, of COVID, would have turned turned 78 on October 10th.




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Joe D'Urso and his band, Stone Caravan - an Americana, Jersey Shore, rock & roll band, they have created a worldwide grassroots network of fans. Joe's catalog of music is released on his own label, SCR, along with Schoolhouse Records. Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan run the gamut of straight-up, full out Americana rock and roll, singer-songwriter offerings, Jersey Shore influences and the quiet observances of NY State/Catskill Mountain country music.

Woodbridge Township presents A Tribute to John Prine with Joe D’Urso & Friends at The Avenel Performing Arts Center with support from Woodbridge Arts.

The Avenel Performing Arts Center (APAC) is a multi-disciplinary performing arts center located in Avenel, New Jersey. Funded by the Woodbridge Arts Alliance, The APAC promises to energize Avenel and surrounding communities by programming exceptional, professional theatre, music, comedy, dance and more.

Woodbridge Arts Alliance (WAA) is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advocating, activating and animating Downtown Woodbridge and Avenel as hubs for the arts in the Township of Woodbridge. Starting with The Avenel Performing Arts Center, the WAA will play a leadership role in helping to advance the Township’s art-driven economic plan—a plan that includes further development of enhanced arts programming and education representative of the diverse population in the area.




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