Motown comes to Dover

Democrat Staff Writer

DOVER --- "Hello Detroit" brought attendees at the Cochecho Arts Festival back to the 1960s for a taste of Motown on Friday night.

The band played familiar tunes such as "Dancin’ in the Streets" from a time when Diana Ross and the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and The Temptations reigned supreme.

The concert, held between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., was part of the 13th Cochecho Arts Festival concert series presented by the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce in the Cocheco Mills Courtyard.

"Hello Detroit" has played to packed houses at the Press Room in Portsmouth, the pre-fireworks show at the Newmarket summer festival and a Kittery, Maine, block party, when the USS Maine was commissioned.

Berwick, Maine, resident and Motown fan, Marge Patch, brought her friend to the concert.

"I think it’s good," Ms. Patch said about the festival. "Friday night for a couple of hours, it gives us something to do."

Gil Fogarty and her friend Carol Morgan, both from Dover, will listen to any kind of music at the concert series - because it’s fun.

"It gets people downtown," Ms. Morgan said. "You see people from the community."

Performing were Herman "Chubby" Boothe on lead and backup vocals; Jim Brauneck on trumpet; Peg Chaffee on lead and backup vocals; Leif Gerjuoy on drums; Ed Mathews on tenor sax; Ken Ormes on guitar; Scott Richardson on keyboard; Pat Rose on lead and backup vocals; "Bobby T" Trask on baritone sax and Jeff Wilson on bass guitar.

Co-sponsors included Federal Saving Bank, Charter New England Agency and Charter Trust Company. The media partner was WBYY 98.7 FM.