Gloucester City: June 20 & 21 — Rock N Roll Revival

http://www.cityofgloucester.org

A two day event drawing in over thousands of people commemorating Gloucester City as the birthplace of Rock N Roll.

This historic milestone happened in the early 1950’s when the legendary Bill Haley and his then called Saddlemen, created the revolutionary new sound of Rock ‘N’ Roll at the Twin Bar, located at the corner of Market Street and Broadway. It was in Gloucester City, NJ that the band successfully introduced their unique \”Rockabilly\” sound, then an unfamiliar and strange mixture of \”rhythm and blues\” and \”country and western\” with a heavy back-beat, to create a new kind of music that would be called