Kane tribute concert raises money for charity
Organizer calls show 'Bay Ridge's Woodstock'
“Tommy Kane is looking down on us right now and he’s smiling,” singer Frankie Marra told the audience in Saint Patrick’s Church auditorium Friday night in Bay Ridge.
Marra, who performed and served as host, was one of several local musicians taking part in “Tommy Kane’s Bay Ridge Birthday Music Blowout,” a mega concert in tribute to Kane, a renaissance man who co-founded brooklynONE Theater, wrote the “Citizen Kane” community news column in the Brooklyn Eagle, and was famous for making the rounds in Bay Ridge, visiting concerts, plays, and civic events, looking for material for his column.
Kane, who died of cancer in 2011, would have turned 56 on Jan. 21. Three of his closest friends, Marra, brooklynONE co-founder Anthony Marino, and brooklynONE board member Arlene Keating put together a concert as a way of celebrating his birthday.