Summer Concert Series Returns Wednesday

If relaxing on a lawn chair and listening to free live music on a nice summer night is your thing, well then, the Oak Creek Community Center has something for you.

The community center's summer concert series returns Wednesday with AARPer's Bizarre and Liverpool 64. It's the first of five shows on Wednesday nights on the grounds of the c, 8580 S. Howell Ave.

Also on the docket this year is Southern Tradition on July 11, Pat McCurdy on July 25, In Black N White on Aug. 8 and Mt. Olive on Aug. 22.

The concerts are held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Food and beverages are available for purchase, or you can bring your own.

Summer markets, which last year featured items like jewelry, flowers, bakery and canned vegetables, will be held Aug. 8 and Aug. 22.

But kicking things off Wednesday are a couple of bands that are no strangers to the Oak Creek area.

AARPer's Bizarre will bring its six members and eclectic mix of cover songs to the stage. The group has songs for nearly anyone's taste -- classic rock, new rock, blues, soul, country.

Or as the band's website puts it, "if it has a good beat that makes you want to move, and we can cover it, we're gonna put it on the list!"

Patch profiled the other band on the bill, Liverpool 64, .

The Franklin-based Beatles tribute band formed not too long ago at a Franklin block party as something of a gag, according to resident George Harrison counterpart Doug Scherrer.

But it wasn't too much later that the group's performance schedule included numerous high-profile regional venues, including the Old Pabst Brewery, German Fest, Mitchell Boulevard Park and the Mitchell Park Domes.

They also sold out the Oak Creek Community Center last year and returned in January.