Parker Reilly, Irvington High School ’79, remembers that feeling as clearly today as when he first experienced it in the fifth grade. It happened one afternoon at the Middle School on Main Street. On stage was a band made up of fifth or sixth graders. When they started playing he looked around and found everyone in rapt attention, with the exception of a few girls who had started dancing. At that moment, he said to himself, “I have to get a piece of that. That was so fun. And then he added “I play in a band right now with one of the 6th graders who was up there then, Chris Merola.” more »
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