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For each ticket purchase transaction, you will receive an Event Registration Confirmed email.  

You will need this email on your phone or in hard copy for you (and your guests) to be admitted to the event. 

READ ME!!! ---> REQUIRED FOR ENTRY (OR YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED):  Members and guests will be required to show their Village ID   >>OR<<   a valid Village's guest pass to gain admittance.     The guest passes must be submitted by a Villager to the rec center and pick them up for their guests. (There will be no exceptions to this rule - per The Villages regulations)

HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE: Guest tickets are in addition to your individual ticket.  For example if you want to purchase a ticket for you and 2 others (total of 3 tickets), you will be purchasing one for yourself and 2 for each of your guests.  If you've previously purchased a ticket and log back in to purchase 2 more guests tickets you will purchase one for yourself and 1 for the other guest.  I know that 's weird, but that is how this system works.


THE NIGHTHAWKS

  • 03/09/2022
  • 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Rohan Regional Recreation Center, 850 Kristine Way, Wildwood, FL 34785
  • 19

Registration

  • You can purchase 4 tickets maximum which includes yourself. This means 4 tickets at the "Household Membership" rate (1 for you plus 3 for your family members).

       

The Nighthawks was an idea in Mark Wenner's brain long before he was able to implement it. The musical product of pre-1958 radio in Washington, D.C., he did not know there were rules against mixing blues, R&B, honky-tonk country, doo-wop, gospel and rockabilly into one delicious stew.

In 1972, Mark, then 23, returned to his hometown after a New York City band apprenticeship eager to start a real, work-every-night band based on American roots music. He found a receptive local scene. Washington has long been a musical melting-pot of the kind that made Memphis the source point for the evolution of American music in the second half of the 20th century. It just never had a Stax or Sun record label to tell the world. As the city exploded with an influx of people from all the surrounding states during the Great Depression and World War II, Washington became a hotbed of musical cross-fertilization. When Bill Haley first brought his wacky Pennsylvania mix of hillbilly music and rhythm and blues to D.C. in 1952, people got it. And white kids like Mark found the Howard Theater – now recently restored and part of the historic top tier of the Chitlin' Circuit that included Baltimore’s Royal, Chicago’s Regal and New York’s Apollo – just a 25-cent bus ride away from the suburbs.

                                  Sixteen Tons_The Nighthawks.mp3

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