Q&A with Kevin and Michael Bacon

By Alexis Tarrazi – Straus News

The Bacon Brothers, formed by ‘The Following’ actor Kevin and Michael Bacon to perform in the local area.

NEWTON — Throw together a harmonica, mandolin, electric guitar and an accordion and you get FoRo SoCo. No it’s not the name of a new drink. It’s how celebrity actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael describe their band, Bacon Brothers, style of music – Folk Rock Southern Country.Known for dancing across the screen in “Footloose” and more recently as a former FBI agent in the Fox television series “The Following,” Kevin teamed up with his older brother, Michael, 17 years ago to form the Bacon Brothers and have not looked back since.

The Bacon Brothers will be performing at Town Hall in New York City on May 2 at 8 p.m. and a sold out show at Newton Theater on May 5.

Tell me how the Bacon Brothers was formed.

Kevin: Michael was nine years older than me, still is as it turns out. (laughs) And we would get together play music, write songs. He was off on a music career from my earliest kind of memories. Eventually he asked me to percussion, backing him up. You know we kind of played together there. And then I went off and decided to become an actor. We had a demo of some songs we were trying to get cut by other people and a friend of ours heard it and said, ‘Why don’t you go out and play the songs yourselves?’ And that was really the first show. That was 17 years ago.

Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez to Heat Up the Stage in Newark

I had the pleasure of doing a teleconference with Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias about their upcoming tour. Check out what they had to say in the full article in today’s Record Newspaper.

This may be perfect timing for Jennifer Lopez. She left “American Idol” to focus on her singing career, which will be on display this week as her tour with Enrique Iglesias comes to Newark.

Lopez made her “Idol” announcement last week, a day after fellow judge Steven Tyler announced his departure, to rededicate himself to Aerosmith.

During a recent telephone interview with Lopez and Iglesias, conducted before Lopez’s announcement, she said her time on the show had impacted her own performances.