Past Events

September 4, 2024

After the summer off, we were glad to be back entertaining you.  Tim and I had a wonderful trip in July in Boston visiting the family.  Then off to Alaska and Costa Rica in August before returning in September, quite tired from all the trips.  But it was worth seeing spectacular scenery both in Alaska and Costa Rica.  We had a great turnout at our September show .  Bobby started with “It’s so nice to be with you” and it was great seeing you after two months off.  He included “September Morn” in his set,  appropriate for the month.  I sang “September in the Rain” another great September song.  Tim and I sang one of his favorites by the Moody Blues “Wildest Dream” and we did a super duet written by Bobby Darin “Things”.  See you for more great music in October.

June 4, 2024

May 2, 2024

We had a great time at our first After Dark performance at Aviary Rec Center.  We had 100 people show up with all tables filled.  Bobby started the dancing out with some great tunes, like “Can’t take my eyes off you” and he had everyone “Tossin and Turning’ on the dance floor!  Mr. and Mrs. (Tim and Donna) livened things up with “Come Dance with Me” , “Trickle Trickle” (always a crowd pleaser) and a great disco number “Heaven Knows”.  We’ll do it again in the fall.

April 4, 2024

March 7, 2024

February 1, 2024

January 4, 2024

Great show by Bobby, Barbara, Mr. and Mrs. Francis.  We started the afternoon off with some of Bobby’s favorite songs such as “Don’t let the sun catch you crying” by the Gerry and the Pacemakers, and  a Ronettes favorite “Be my baby”. Next up was Mr. and Mrs. with a duet “A Rocking Good Way”. Tim sang a little know DION song called “She Bop” and Donna sang two songs with the same name:  “Time after Time”.

Barbara finished the afternoon with many of her favorite singers.  When she sang Connie Francis’ hit “Where the boys are”  we were all surprised to see several of her men friends sporting a tee with her picture on it and logo:  Barbara’s Boys!  Luck her!

October 5, 2023

Bobby and Barbara's absence was truly felt during this performance, but it provided us with the opportunity to welcome my dear friend from LaLiPoP, Melody Gardner. We crossed paths in the POPs Chorus, and when Paul Holtzman suggested finding a few girls for some Andrew Sisters songs, I immediately thought of her. Melody is an exceptional entertainer, brimming with harmony and possessing a captivating performance voice.

The collaboration also allowed Tim and me to share our musical preferences. Tim leans towards DooWop, while I have a penchant for Jazz. It was a delightful exchange as he performed his favorites, and I sang mine. Thank you to everyone for your support. Next month, we look forward to having everyone back for a special AFTER DARK event.

September 7, 2023  

Thanks for all who came out to our show.  Bobby always starts off with some great songs.  In tribute to Tony Bennett, he sang Tony’s signature song “ I left my heart in San Francisco”.  Tim and Donna started with a rousing dance song by the Blues Brothers, “Chicago”. Donna sang “September in the Rain”, welcoming in the fall, and Tim sang two songs honoring the great Jimmy Buffett.  Barbara finished the afternoon with her tribute to Connie Francis and Brenda Lee.  She had us all teary eyed singing “Mama”.

February 16, 2023 AFTER DARK

Tim and Donna Francis , Barbara Petrizzo, and Bobby “V”

It was a full house at the Big Cypress Rec Center for our very first After Dark.  People had a great time dancing to great songs like “Barfootin”, and “Pretty Woman” by Bobby, and Tim and Donna sang “ Trickle, Trickle”, “Heaven Knows”, and their duet “You’ll Never Find”. Then Barbara kept the music going with “To be Loved” and “I will Survive”.  We closed the show with a song by the Angels “Thank you and Goodnight”.  Thanks for all who came out and enjoyed the evening with us.

January 5, 2023

Tim and Donna Francis and Bobby “V”

October 6, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Thanks for all who came out to our very first Blast After Dark. We had  a full house of guests, all anxious to dance and have some great fun.  Bobby started out the night with a blast as usual, singing “Tossin and Turning”, “To be loved”, “Pretty Woman”, and many more.  And our guest, Phil Caltabellotta was fantastic !  He and Donna did a great duet “You don’t know me” by Michael Buble.  He played his harmonica along to some great tunes in just about every genre you can think of.  Tim and Donna had the guests dancing with some great tunes like “Islands in the stream”, “Sea Cruise”, “Seventh Son”, “Deep Purple” and Tim’s favorite “Trickle Trickle”. And Barbara finished with “Blame it on the Bossa Nova”, “Crazy little thing called Love”, and “The wonder of You”.  We will definitely do this evening performance again.

August 4, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

What a great turnout at our August show! Standing room only!  That means you better get there early for September.

Bobby started off with “Mountain of Love”, and ended with “What a Wonderful World”.  There is so much good in this world we live in, especially here in the Villages. Donna sang a Rosemary Clooney hit, “In the cool cool of the evening”,  and Tim woo’d everyone with “This I swear” a Skyliners hit, and ended with “Smoke gets in your eyes”!  Barbara sang some great broadway hits by   Barbara Streisand   like “Second Hand Rose” and “My Man” and a great jazz hit “All of Me”.  

Join us in September.

July 7, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

We had a fun time singing together at this show.  This was a special show of the music that influenced us.  Tim did a tribute to Buddy Holly, one of his favorite singers, and he even dressed the part.  Donna did a special tribute to her favorite singer, the Rock and Roll Queen of the 70’s, Linda Ronstadt.  Bobby sang song that were important to him during his career.  And Barbara, sang hit songs from her mentors:  Patsy Cline, and Connie Francis.  We’ll definitely do this again in the future.

June 4, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Another fun afternoon of music.  Barbara gave us a treat by sing “Me and Bobby mcgee”, complete with flowers in her hair and a tambourine!  Bobby seems to get a-lot more fan mail than we do!  He’s always playing his “Letters” theme and then singing something that was requested!  This time it was “Paint me a Birmingham”, and then of course there were “Bobby’s Girls”. Tim sang his favorite Doowop song “Oh what a night” and we did our first country song together “Remember When”, a sweet song about a a couple reminiscing about days gone by.

May 5, 2022

Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Bobby started the show with “It’s Not Unusual”, a Tom Jones hit from the 60’s. Then his whole set followed the letter theme, “I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter”, “Love Letters in the sand”, and “Return to Sender” among others.    Tim had to miss the performance, being sick with COVID!  I had found that out at the show!.  We had just come back from a live performance from Diana Krall, so I sang one of her songs  “I don’t know enough about you”.  Barbara sang a song dedicated to her significant other,  “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me”, a Gladys Knight favorite. All in all it was a good time, but we did miss Tim. By the way, I never got sick!

April 7, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Bobby is a great entertainer as you all know.  He did a great Bobby Rydell medley, in memory of a great 60’s heart throb. Tim and I sang some songs about dreams:  “Chapel of Dreams” and  “In Dreams”! And Barbara did a great job with “Gee Whiz”.

March 3, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Another great show at Moyer.  Bobby sang some great songs, I particularly liked the slow version of “Breaking Up is hard to do”, Neil Sedaka’s number 1 hit, and a great 1986 tune “At this Moment”, a Billy Vera hit.  You may remember it from the TV show “Family Ties”.   Tim and I had everyone dancing to the crazy dances of the 60’s like the Bristol Stop, Was Watusi, Stroll and Mashed Potato.  Barbara sang her favorite hits…Gee Whiz, Hold me Thrill Me, and Linda Ronstadt’s hit Ooo Ooo Baby.  Oh and you missed the Bobby Soxers - take a look at our latest email for Bobby’s new fan club.

February 24, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Thank you for all who came out to our very first show south of 44!   And thanks for all who got the word out.   Bobby started the show with “It’s so nice to be with you” and it was great to meet  our new fans from south of 44.  He told us about his favorite Broadway shows and sang a song from one of his favorites from Grease, “Beauty School Dropout”.  Tim and I were next up with “Seventh Sun”, a great Johnny Rivers classic rock and roll song.  Next was “Come Fly with Me”, one of my favorite Sinatra songs.  Barbara ended the show with Connie Francis classic “Where the Boys Are”, we we joined her with “Goody Goody” Frankie Lymon hit.  

February 3, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Another wonderful afternoon of music.  This time we focused on romantic love.   Tim welcomed everyone in the room to “Walk right in and sit right down”, the Rooftop Singers hit.  Bobby started with songs you never knew were about love, like “Running Scared”, and “Little Green Apples” .  And he fooled us again with his “Letter’s, I’ve got Letter’s “  theme.  I love that segment!  Tim and I told stories about crushes we had in our life, like on my music teacher and his French teacher!  We did a duet with “Sea of Love”.  And of course he had everyone dancing to “Trickle, Trickle”.  I finished with Etta James version of “At Last”.  Unfortunately Barbara was not with us, recuperating from a bug.  But she’ll be back next month for another fun after noon of music.

January 6, 2022

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Wow, we had a great time kicking off 2022!   Its gonna be a great year of entertainment for you. As Bobby V said, even though inflation is at a 6% rate, our price will remain the same for an afternoon of great entertainment, FREE!

A big thank you for all who attended our show.  Bobby started off traveling to great destinations like “New York, New York”, “I Left my Heart in San Francisco”, and “Viva Las Vegas”.  Especially touching was his rendition of “Weekend in New England”, reminiscing the time he and Norma (his girlfriend at the time) travelled to NE for a  memorable weekend.  Tim and Donna were up next to share their New Years resolution to dance more:  “Come Dance with Me”, and  “Save the Last Dance for Me”.  And the audience responding with many dancing in the back of the room!  We are so happy that Barbara Petrizzo is joining us as a regular performer each month.  Barbara shared with us songs by her favorite singers who inspired her, Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, and Crystal Gale.  She sang their big hits like “All Alone am I”, “Who’s Sorry Now”, and “Don’t it make my brown eyes blue”.  Bring your friends next month to our free show on February 3, 2022!

December 2, 2021

What a great time we had at our  last show of the year!  It was our Christmas party and Tim started off with distributing some delicious Christmas cookies,. Bobby started off the fun with "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Run, Run, Rudolph", a Chuck Berry rockin' tune, Tim sang his famous rendition of "Feliz Navidad", (the song that never ends). We both did that 40's tune "Baby it's cold outside", remembering our snowing days in Boston. Then I brought Barbara Petrizzo up and we sang "Sisters" from the 1954 movie "White Christmas"!

Jeri Lynne Fraser was a big hit with the audience. What a blessing it is to have this caliber of talent in our community. She started with a Sinatra tune, then moved to Queen's big hit "Crazy Little Thing called love", showing us her versatility. Then moved to Gene Pitney's most recognizable song "Town with out pity". Did you know they were childhood friends, growing up in Connecticut?

Tell your friends about us and subscribe to our newsletter!  Have a blessed holiday season and happy new year!

November 6, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V and In Motion

If you didn’t come to our November  show, you missed another great show.  Bobby sang some of his favorite tunes.  I especially like “I wanna be seduced!”,  a crowd favorite.  He also sang one of Frankie Vallie’s biggest hits when he was a solo act, “My Eyes Adored you”.  Then Tim and I  had the audience singing long to   “Celebrate Good Times”.  We also did a duet “Love is Strange”, yes isn’t it!  I ended with a tribute to the Veterans with Roxie Dean’s moving song about “A Soldier’s Wife”.  Next up was “In Motion”.  This dynamic duo had everyone dancing.  We always have so much fun at these shows, tell your friends about us.

October 7, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V and Pinky

We had a great show this month, filling the room to capacity!  Next month you’d better get there early.  Bobby was his usual self, poking fun at Tim.  He sang some songs from his upcoming one man show “Lounging with Bobby V” on October 10th.   Sorry folks tickets are all sold out for this event.  Then Tim and I joined him with little Halloween fun singing “Witch Doctor” by the Chipmunks, you remember those little guys with several hits!   Oh my, you missed Tim’s version of “Girl Watcher” complete with a parade of beautiful girls!  And then  “Pinky” hit a home run with the audience with her dynamic talent.  She took us through France with “La Vie En Rose”, Italy with “Al di la” and “Mambo Italiano”, Broadway with “Memory” from CATS and even Nashville with a Tanya Tucker hit.  She ended with  Judy Garland’s signature song “Over the Rainbow”.   We are so happy she decided to make her home in the Villages!

Here are some comments:

“Another great afternoon of song, friendship, laughter and entertainment introductions. Loved it.”

“Great show yesterday. You, Tim and Bobby make such an awesome team. Love you guys and also Pinky. She was wonderful and so personable.”

September 2, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V and Bob Wilson

We are always trying to bring you the very best talent the Villages has to offer.  So tell your friends about our monthly show.

If  you missed our past show, you missed Tim and I singing some great songs and of course Bobby V’s humor.  He is always picking on Tim.  This time he sang Jimmy Clayton’s song, “GO!  Timmy GO!” ,  equipped with a sign that had the audience singing along with him.   I quickly grabbed it and put it  good use in our home!!

And Bob Wilson played and sang some great songs, everything from Cole Porter, some country, some boogie woogie, and ended with Great Balls of Fire!!  He is a fantastic performer and great piano player.  You can catch him at the Savoy’s Dance Band parties.

Some comments:  “Outstanding show!!! Too many highlights to recount! Keep up the great work!

August 5, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V and Doug Skinner

You know we always have so much fun at these shows, and I sure hope it shows!  Great entertainment and the price is right!!

Another great afternoon of free entertainment here is the Villages.  Bobby started the show with some of the songs he will be singing at his upcoming show October 10th, “Lounging around with Bobby V”.  You will want to get tickets to this show!  Guests are the LaLiPoPs and Barbara Petrizzo.

Tim and I sang some of our songs, and I made sure no-one “Messed with Tim”!!  (inside joke for those who attended).  

Doug Skinner lent his smooth voice to some great tunes like  “Take good care of my baby”, “Lady”, and  showed his DooWop side with “Blue Moon”! He  finished with a great Shag tune “I Love Beach Music”.  

Hope to see you all next month!

July 1, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and The LaLiPoPs

If you missed our last show, you missed some great entertainment and some great laughs. Bobby V sang his usual great songs like "Sea Cruise" and several songs about misguided letters! And you missed his tale about taking the Montroe twins to the prom and how one of them got her shoe caught in the gym's basketball net! But I won't go there!

I was under the weather, just returning from a trip to Boston, so Tim filled in with his great DooWop tunes. But we did sing one duet, "Islands in the Stream" by The Bee Gees.

TheLaLiPoPsalso performed some classic hits from the girl groups of the 60's and the McGuire Sisters.

From Hedy:  “Thank you for the great concert today!  Loved all of it. “ 🎶 🎤🎵❤️🎵🎤🎶

June 3, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Tony Brown

It was another fun afternoon of great tunes!

May 6, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Jim McGreevey

We had another full house of guests!  If you are a DooWop lover, you missed a great show.  Bobby V and Tim joined Jim McGreevey singing their favorite DooWop songs.   We were dazzled by Jim’s smooth voice.  He sang a beautiful medley of songs from the WW II era that were re-recorded in the DooWop style of the late 50’s.    And we finished the show with “Goodnight Sweetheart”.

Pam Liebow “Thank you for another wonderful afternoon of music. The talent and professionalism is truly outstanding”

April 4, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V and Back-in-Time

The Fabulous 4 guys from Back in Time were our guests and they had the audience tapping their feet to some great Doo-Wop music.  And Donna sang an accapella song  with the guys, “Let it please be you” by Patti and the StreetTones.

March 4, 2021

Tim and Donna Francis, Bobby V, and Barbara Petrizzo

Thank you all for coming to our show and welcoming back Donna Francis.  Bobby started off the show with some of his great songs like “Mack the Knife”, “It’s all in the Game”, and ended with “That’s Life”.  If you haven’t seen Bobby V, he is the consummate entertainer.  Donna started with “Feeling Good”, and joined by her husband, Tim,  did some great duets together.  Tim sang the Skyliners version of “This I swear”

We welcomed Barbara Petrizzo as our guest and Donna and Barbara sang “Happy Days/Get Happy”, a mash up of the two songs performed  by a young Barbara Streisand along with  Judy Garland, on Judy’s show, which aired October 6, 1963.  Barbara went on to perform a great song  by Connie Francis, and ended with “Goody, Goody”.

Some comments from our fans:  

“I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this afternoon's show.  It was beyond great!!

“My husband and I were at your March show, it was great and Donna you look wonderful.”

We had a full how so be sure to make your reservations,  early,  for each of our shows.

February 4, 2021

Tim Francis, Bobby V, and Richie Lanna

We had a wonderful time at our show this month.  Tim and Bobby sounded great.  Tim sang some of his favorite songs.  And Richie Lanna gave a tribute to his distant cousin,  Frank Sinatra.

January 7, 2021

Bobby V, an afternoon of Songs, Stories, and Memories

To all of you who attended our first show,  a big “THANK YOU!” for making it such a success!! I hope you enjoyed yourselves and enjoyed my show. Each month Tim Francis and I will be performing and sharing the hosting duties and soon Donna Francis will be joining us and if that doesn’t give you enough reason to sign up,  we will also have a guest singer joining us each month. Until the time comes when the recreation centers are open to full capacity, click the links below to register for next months event.  If you’re interested in attending any or all of the shows listed please take a moment and sign up now so you wont be disappointed and again thank you for supporting Blast From The Past, stay well everyone.

Peggy Ludwig: “ Great show yesterday!!! You are such a talented performer. Looking forward to future Blast from the Past entertainment”

Will & Judy Landofi: “Bobby Great show yesterday. You are such a fantastic entertainer. Great song selections, something for everyone. Thank you so much for all your hard work”

Wendy Varner: “Congratulations on your first show. Your investment in preparing for it showed in your relaxed style and delivery. As always love your voice…smooth just like the song “nice and easy”

Mary Bahry; “ I Just left your show today. Wonderful as always. I could listen to you sing always. Please put me down for tickets for next months show”