SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH EMPIRE STATE BALLROOM

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1 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH EMPIRE STATE BALLROOM 5:00 Welcome: Martin Lewis 5:15 Meet the Guest Authors: ROBERT RODRIGUEZ RICHARD BUSKIN AL SUSSMAN CHUCK GUNDERSON MARK HAYWARD JERE HESTER SUSAN RYAN JAMES MITCHELL 5:55 LARRY KANE: Ticket To Ride MultiMedia Show 7:25 Meet the Photographers & More Guest Authors: BOB GRUEN ALLAN TANNENBAUM ROB SHANAHAN VIVEK TIWARY BRUCE SPIZER DAVID BEDFORD JULIA BAIR 8:15 Meet the Special Guests: DONOVAN PETER ASHER BILLY J. KRAMER MARK RIVERA CHAD STUART JEREMY CLYDE FREDA KELLY MARK HUDSON DENNY LAINE PRUDENCE FARROW VINCE CALANDRA TERRY SYLVESTER 9:30 BEATLES 60 S DANCE PARTY LIVE MUSIC BY LIVERPOOL +MUSICAL GUEST MARK RIVERA LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST 60 S DRESS UP CONTEST, DOOR PRIZES 11:30 MARK LAPIDOS - The Birth of Beatlefest! Full Story of Meeting with John on 4/28/74 WELCOME TO PEPPERLAND FILM - 74 FEST EMPIRE STATE BALLROOM 1 & 5-4TH LEVEL GIANT INTERNATIONAL BEATLES MARKETPLACES 75 tables, offering an amazing assortment of Beatles memorabilia and merchandise for sale are set up in two rooms. Room 1 is to the left of the main stage and features all our vendors and some of the Beatles authors. Room 5 is to the right and it is the location of the official Fest Store with our full range of 2,000+ items!it s also where you ll meet a majority of our guest authors. DOOR PRIZES Many Door Prizes are given away, in the Empire State Ballroom, over the weekend. Some of the prizes are books, CDs, shirts, posters, promo items, DVDs, etc. To be eligible, you must be in the Ballroom when your wrist band number is called.

2 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 TH EMPIRE STATE BALLROOM 10:30 Welcome-MARTIN LEWIS & KEN DASHOW - MCs 10:35 BRUCE SPIZER: The Beatles Conquer America 11:15 GOOD OL FREDA FILM Intro & Q & A Outro 1:00 GARRETT GARDNER & THE RIVERTOWN KIDS 1:15 SPECIAL GUEST: MARK RIVERA 1:50 IN CONCERT: PETER ASHER AND BAND MUSICAL MEMOIR OF THE 60s & BEYOND, PART 1 2:50 IN CONCERT: CHAD AND JEREMY 3:40 SPECIAL GUEST: BILLY J. KRAMER 4:15 SURPRISE GUEST: 4:50 IN CONCERT: DONOVAN 6:00 COUSIN BRUCIE LIVE ON SIRIUSXM 60s ON 6 A very rare FEST event - Our special musician guests plus other surprise appearances 9:00 KEN DASHOW LEADS A NATIONAL SING - ALONG OUR TRIBUTE TO SID BERNSTEIN 9:10 SPECIAL GUEST: MARK HUDSON 9:40 Charity Raffle Drawing - C.S.G.V. 10:00 LIVERPOOL CONCERT: LIVE BEATLES MUSIC MUSICAL GUESTS: DONOVAN CHAD & JEREMY DENNY LAINE BILLY J. KRAMER + MUSICAL SURPRISES MARK HUDSON LEADS THE GRAND JAM FINALE!! PIG LIGHT SHOW An important part of the concerts at the iconic NYC rock venue The Fillmore East ( ), was the Joshua Light Show. MARC RUBINSTEIN was mentored by Joshua and progressed to the PIG LIGHT SHOW. Marc will be adding psychedelic visual spice to LIVERPOOL s concerts. THE RIVERTOWN KIDS are a Grammy-winning chorale of youngsters age 9-13 from Beacon, NY. They have been mentored by the late great Pete Seeger (shown). The Kids are very socially and politically aware and will be singing their support for the Beatles universal message of love and peace. Please be there to welcome these young Fab Four fans of the future! THEFEST.COM/LIVE LIVE WEB BROADCAST Want to join in the fun, but cannot make it each day? Join WARREN MELNICK as he webcasts many of the exciting activities live from the Empire State Ballroom at

3 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 TH EMPIRE STATE BALLROOM 10:30 Opening Announcements- MARTIN LEWIS 10:35 DAVID BEDFORD: 1960: The Year That Made The Beatles 11:10 STEVE HOLLEY, GARY VAN SCYOC, ADAM IPPOLITO - performing & recording with a Beatle+ concert by BIRDS OF PARADOX 12:00 THE SMITHEREENS - WASHINGTON COLISEUM CONCERT 2/11/64 RE-CREATION 12:50 SPECIAL GUEST - MARK LEWISOHN 1:50 IN CONCERT: PETER ASHER AND BAND MUSICAL MEMOIR OF THE 60s & BEYOND, PART 2 2:50 THE NUTOPIANS: Live Concert John Lennon Imagined 3:50 IN CONCERT: BILLY J. KRAMER & BAND 4:50 DONOVAN: Meditation and The White Album 5:50 IN CONCERT: CHAD AND JEREMY 6:20 B.U.I./Musicians Forum w/martin LEWIS: MARK HUDSON -Musical Director DONOVAN PETER ASHER BILLY J. KRAMER LIBERTY DEVITTO PAT DINIZIO GLEN BURTNIK 7:30 The Ed Sullivan Show: It Was 50 Years Ago Today! VINCE CALANDRA joined by IRENE KATZ & ALICE KESTIN 8:00 WE SALUTE THIS MOMENT...50 YEARS LATER 8:20 Vegas LOVE Getaway Winner Announced Charity Raffle Drawing: Spirit Foundations 8:45 LIVERPOOL: LIVE BEATLES MUSIC GRAND FINALE WITH THE MUSICAL GUESTS!! Goodnight. Peace & Love All Year Long! See You in 2015! Enter to Win a Beatles Trip to Las Vegas! Package including Two VIP tickets to The Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil., Air fare, two nights at The Mirage, dinner for 2 and a VIP backstage tour & gift bag. Go to our Facebook page to enter, until 6PM Sunday. We will be announcing the winner live on stage Sunday at 8:30PM.

4 THE MANHATTAN ROOM - LOBBY LEVEL HOST TOM FRANGIONE FRIDAY 5:15 BOB ABDOU PUPPET SHOW 6:15 LIVE BEATLES TRIVIA CONTEST 7:00 NAME THAT TUNE 7:45 THE TRANSFORMATION TO...THE CAVERN Turn to page 22 to see The Cavern Schedule SATURDAY Auctions of the most unique items take place today. If you have an item you d like to enter, please let us know by 1:00PM. See Dan. Sign up for the Sound-Alike Contest is 12:00 Noon. Qualifying and final rounds are all in one session. 11:15 BOB ABDOU PUPPET SHOW 12:15 SOUND-ALIKE CONTEST 2:45 BEATLES AUCTION-Q104.3 s Jim Kerr, Roger Berkley 4:15 LIVE BEATLES TRIVIA CONTEST 5:15 NAME THAT TUNE 6:00 THE TRANSFORMATION TO...THE CAVERN SUNDAY 11:00 BOB ABDOU - PUPPET SHOW 12:00 CHILDRENS CONCERT WITH mr. RAY 12:45 LIVE BEATLES TRIVIA CONTEST 1:45 NAME THAT TUNE 2:30 BATTLE OF THE BEATLES BANDS - Bands perform Two Beatles or Solo Songs. The 10 Groups are: 1. The Jersey Mersey 5. The Eggmen 8. Honey Pie 2. Yesterday & Today 6. Imagine John 9. Ram Army 3. Carnival of Light 7. Timeless 10. Rock Show 4. The Iron Bettys Good Luck to all the bands. You the audience decide the winner! 5:15 - ART CONTEST WINNERS 6:00 THE TRANSFORMATION TO...THE CAVERN BEATLES PUPPET SHOWS CHILDREN S BEATLES CONCERT Puppeteer BOB ABDOU returns for 17th year. mrpuppet.com mr. RAY (ANDERSEN) Sunday mrray.com

5 ACTIVITIES: THE AUTHORS ROOM BROADWAY/CARNEGIE HALL ROOMS - 3RD FLOOR Various Moderators including Tom Frangione, Al Sussman, Darren DeVivo, Fab4Free4All, Allan Kozinn, Howie Edelson, Ken Michaels, Martin Lewis FRIDAY 9:15 Photographers Forum - Rob Shanahan, Bob Gruen Allan Tannenbaum 10:00 The Making of The Fifth Beatle - Vivek Tiwary 10:30 Talking Beatles Art - Eric Cash, Ron Campbell, Deco 11: : A Year To Remember - Al Sussman, Bruce Spizer, Chuck Gunderson, Richard Buskin, Mark Hayward SATURDAY 11:00 Raising a Beatle Baby - Jere Hester 11:45 Solo in the 70s - Robert Rodriguez 12:30 We re Talkin About Girls Now: Women as Beatles Historians Susan Ryan, Judith Kristen, Candy Leonard, more! 1:30 English Authors - Richard Buskin, Mark Hayward 2:15 Touring The Beatles London & Liverpool - Richard Porter, David Bedford, Jackie Spencer 3:00 Changin Times - Al Sussman 3:45 Some Fun Tonight - Chuck Gunderson 4:30 John s Years of Revolution - James Mitchell 5:45 Liverpool Life and Humour! - Freda Kelly, David Bedford, Julia Baird 6:30 Saluting the Life of Brian Epstein - Martin Lewis, Billy J. Kramer, Vivek Tiwary 7:30 Ed Sullivan 50 Years On - Vince Calandra, Irene Katz, Larry Kane 8:15 The Animated Beatles - Ron Campbell, Mitch Axelrod 9:00 The Capitol Records Beatles Campaign & Top 40 Radio Bruce Spizer, Allan Kozinn, Al Sussman SUNDAY 11:00 Some Fun Tonight - Chuck Gunderson 11:45 When They Were Boys - Larry Kane 12:30 Growing Up With My Brother, John Lennon - Julia Baird 1:15 The Making of The Fifth Beatle Film - Vivek Tiwary 2:00 The Beatles With Norman Parkinson - Mark Hayward 2:45 Top 3 Solo Albums From Each Beatle - Ken Michaels, Darren DeVivo, Howie Edelson 3:45 Remembering John s Elephant s Memory Band & 72 Concert Gary Van Scyoc & Adam Ippolito 4:30 John s Years of Revolution - James Mitchell 5:15 Ed Sullivan Show - What If?? Mark Lewisohn & Richard Buskin Talk with Allan Kozinn & Fab4Free4All 6:15 Parading Press - Robert Rodriguez, Richard Buskin, Al Sussman 7:00 Raising a Beatle Baby - Jere Hester

6 VIDEO ROOM: GUEST A/V SCHEDULE URIS/JUILLIARD ROOMS - 3RD FLOOR The BEATLES VIDEO ROOM runs almost non-stop all weekend long! Hosts Ron Cuoco & Steve Shorten have put together another great video presentation including rare videos not seen for years. Please check the hall board for the Daily Video Schedules, interspersed with Author s Audio Visual Presentations. FRIDAY 10:30 - ANTHONY ROBUSTELLI - I Want To Tell You 11:15 - JUDITH KRISTEN - The Flower Children SATURDAY 11:30 - DAVID BEDFORD - The Fab One Hundred 4 1:30 - BOB GRUEN - John & Yoko Through My Lens 7:00 - ROB SHANAHAN - On Tour With Ringo 9:00 - JUDITH KRISTEN - Once Upon a Time in Liverpool SUNDAY 11:15 - ANTHONY ROBUSTELLI -I Want To Tell You 12:00 - ALLAN TANNENBAUM - Photographing John & Yoko 2:30 - JUDE SOUTHERLAND KESSLER - She Loves You 3:30 - GOOD OL FREDA FILM + Q & A with Freda