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MARK YOUR<br />
CALENDARS!<br />
<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | MARCH 9, 2024<br />
Sounds | 5<br />
Memorial Auditorium offers ABBA tribute on March 16<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: ABBAsolutely Fab: Tribute<br />
to the Music of ABBA<br />
WHERE: Memorial Auditorium<br />
Performing Arts Center, 714 13th<br />
St., Worthington, MN<br />
WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday, March<br />
16<br />
COST: Adults: $30 advance/$35<br />
at the door; Child/College: $15<br />
advance/$20 at the door<br />
CONTACT: 507-376-9101<br />
ONLINE: www.friendsoftheauditorium.com<br />
Queen<br />
D A N C I N G<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
When I saw this<br />
group, I knew that<br />
they would be perfect<br />
and really fun.<br />
I’m excited to be<br />
bringing something<br />
new that we’ve never<br />
done before.<br />
Tammy Makram<br />
You can dance. You can jive —<br />
having the time of your life.<br />
The Memorial Auditorium<br />
Performing Arts Center is ready to<br />
help you have the time of your life<br />
with an upcoming performance of<br />
the ABBAsolutely Fab: Tribute to the<br />
Music of ABBA show at 7 p.m. Saturday,<br />
March 16.<br />
The group features musicians who<br />
hail from the Twin Cities and Britain.<br />
“Led by powerhouse vocalists<br />
Jenny Russ and Katy Vernon, ABBAsolutely<br />
Fab will have you dancing<br />
and singing along to hits like ‘Dancing<br />
Queen,’ ‘SOS,’ ‘Mamma Mia,’<br />
‘Take A Chance On Me,’ ‘Waterloo’<br />
and many more,” according to the<br />
band’s bio.<br />
This group hasn’t performed yet<br />
in Worthington, but the executive<br />
director of the Memorial Auditorium<br />
Performing Arts Center Tammy<br />
Makram can’t wait for them to bring<br />
down the house.<br />
“Everybody loves a little ABBA. I<br />
was looking for a fun show to do<br />
on St. Patrick’s Day weekend and<br />
I heard about this group that was<br />
selling out show after show at one of<br />
the smaller theaters at the Chanhassen<br />
Dinner Theater,” Makram said.<br />
“When I saw this group, I knew that<br />
they would be perfect and really fun.<br />
I’m excited to be bringing something<br />
new that we’ve never done before.”<br />
This group doesn’t necessarily pretend<br />
that they are ABBA themselves,<br />
but Makram insists that you will<br />
feel like you’ve been to see ABBA in<br />
concert.<br />
“They do ABBA’s music note for<br />
note and they are very good at performing<br />
the music and their show<br />
will closely resemble being at an<br />
actual ABBA concert,” Makram said.<br />
“There are a lot of ABBA tribute bands<br />
out there, but this one is a highly<br />
ranked group that does their music<br />
really well.”<br />
This is a show for everyone, as<br />
Makram says, the love for ABBA is<br />
universal.<br />
“It really doesn’t matter what age<br />
your are — high schoolers to seniors<br />
— everyone loves ABBA. High schoolers<br />
have developed this love for the<br />
music of ABBA that’s been passed<br />
down from their parents or their<br />
grandparents,” Makram said.<br />
A love of ABBA is sure to bring<br />
people to the event, but it’s also a<br />
love of ABBA that will bring concertgoers<br />
to their feet.<br />
“I am looking forward to everyone<br />
standing up and dancing around<br />
while we are singing along. You can’t<br />
not get up on your feet and dance<br />
when listening to ‘Dancing Queen,’”<br />
Makram said.<br />
So grab your tickets because it’s<br />
time to watch that scene and dig the<br />
dancing queen. F<br />
Worthington | Minnesota
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