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When Elton Flodman hosted his first concert last year with the newly formed oldies band Revival, he was just expecting a fun change of pace from the country concerts he usually puts on.
But the reaction they got a packed house at the Grand Theatre, asking for more until the band couldn't go any longer was much more than that.
"People were going, 'When are you going to have it again? Can you have it next month?'" Flodman said.
Flodman couldn't pull off an encore that quickly, but he's hosting one at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grand Theatre.
The show will feature the same four members of Revival Tom Backus, Doris Winkler, Tom Schroeder and Greg Knipe, all veterans of the traditional country music circuit.
It'll also include Flodman, Rich Raile and Pat Boilesen performing with the band's backing.
Boilesen, who lives in Albion, has been playing and singing country and gospel music for decades. But she grew up with the music of the 1960s and '70s.
Boilesen is singing a litany of early-'60s girl-group songs, like "It's My Party," "Going to the Chapel" and "Then He Kissed Me."
Her rehearsals with Revival have been loads of fun, she said, taking her back to her younger, more carefree days.
"Once we got together and started practicing, it's amazing," Boilesen said. "It all comes back."
Flodman, who organizes the annual Flodfest country music festival near Hordville and will be singing Elvis and Buddy Holly songs on Monday, said he's been amazed at the reception the oldies music has gotten. The fact that it's in the Grand Theatre, a classic theater that might take many concertgoers back to decades past, only enhances the nostalgia.
"I just think there's something about this music the older music, being in that theater," Flodman said.
Boilesen, who went to movies at the theater decades ago, when she lived in Cotesfield, agreed with the significance of the theater as a venue.
She said she's thrilled to see it fit so well with the music of the era and draw so much interest.
"It's just really nice to feel like we are adding something to what Grand Island has to offer as far as entertainment," Boilesen said. "It's nice to feel appreciated."
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