Thursday, 23 March 2023 11:43

Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame Ceremony at UPH on March 27

Dating back to the 1960’s, Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen shared the stage with everyone from The Stooges to the Grateful Dead. Image: advert indicating a concert bill in Philadelphia with Alice Cooper, Jan. 15, 1972, attended by more than 17,000 fans. Tickets: $4.50. Dating back to the 1960’s, Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen shared the stage with everyone from The Stooges to the Grateful Dead. Image: advert indicating a concert bill in Philadelphia with Alice Cooper, Jan. 15, 1972, attended by more than 17,000 fans. Tickets: $4.50.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Michael Eck - performing a song representing Wanda Fischer’s folk career, siblings Arlin Greene and Scott Greene - representing their father Smokey Greene, vocalist-guitarist Margo Macero, and Graham Tichy – showcasing a medley representing George Frayne’s and his dad John Tichy’s career in Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman, will be among the performers at the fifth annual Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which takes place Monday, March 27 at Universal Preservation Hall. 

The Eddies previously announced five music artists–Mike Campese, Felicia Collins, George Frayne, Smokey Greene and John Tichy–as well as photographer Martin Benjamin, educator Sister Mary Anne Nelson, CSJ and radio host and folk musician Wanda Fischer, are being inducted during the ceremony. 

George Frayne, frontman for the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, and an artist, was a long-time Saratoga resident. He died in 2021 at the age of 77. John Tichy, one of the band’s original members, became a professor of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The Eddies Music Hall of Fame and UPH are part of Proctors Collaborative. The ceremony will feature live music, a presentation of a brief video about each artist, acceptance speeches and more. Tickets are $50 and are on sale at universalpreservationhall.org; admission includes complimentary hors d’oeuvres.

Universal Preservation Hall is located on Washington Street in Saratoga Springs.

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