The Fab Four - The Ultimate Beatles Tribute
Friday, August 28th
Presented by The Watertown Area Community Foundation
The Fab Four is a California tribute band, later starring in a theatrical production, paying homage to the Beatles. They are based in Orange County, California. Founded in November 1997 by Westminster-born John Lennon impersonator Ron McNeil (born Ronald Mendonça), Alhambra-born Paul McCartney impersonator Ardavan Sarraf, along with Los Angeles-born George Harrison impersonator Michael Amador and Ontario-born Ringo Starr impersonator Rudolpho Sandoval, the group began performing Beatles music throughout Southern California and later the U.S. West Coast starting in 1998. They have performed worldwide in Japan, Malaysia, France, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil, covering nearly the entire Beatles discography and material from some of the Beatles' members' solo projects.
The show is a faithfully detailed chronological history of the Beatles from their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 to their breakup in 1970. The show has brief on-stage banter and interactions with the audience directly, but otherwise very little dialogue, mainly reenacting songs that the Beatles performed live along with songs from the members' solo works after the breakup. The band never uses pre-recorded tracks or a backstage fifth member (only in special performances), instead relying on the members to use keyboards to produce background instruments in songs like "Strawberry Fields Forever".
