The Platters

Name: The Platters
Start: 2025-09-06T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-06T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Elmasian Auditorium, 2000 Pawtucket Avenue, East Providence, RI, 02914United States, Rhode Island

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Elmasian Auditorium, 2000 Pawtucket Avenue, East Providence, RI, 02914United States, Rhode Island | East Providence, RI

Exceptionally talented performance artists Lance Bernard Bryant, Omar Ross, Jovian K. Ford, and Brittney Bellamy lend their sharp, velvety smooth voices and carefully honed vocal skills to the voices forming the Rock n’ Roll, Vocal, and GRAMMY® Halls of Fame group, The Platters®.
With their well-synced, intricately polished, smooth harmonic stylings, the quartet travels the world with Music Director Norwood Pierson, presenting the classic evergreen sounds of the evolving trendsetting vocal group that continue to build upon the foundation of class, sophistication, and style that are at its core. The Platters take their audiences on an interactive musical journey through time, visiting the sounds of vocal groups influenced by them through the decades. Their performance is guaranteed to amaze and delight people of all ages.
In 1952-53, bass singer Herb Reed founded and named The Platters, later becoming the first black group to be overwhelmingly accepted on the world stage and the first to reach international superstardom (www.theplatters.com). He was the only vocalist who appeared on all 400+ recordings of the group from its start until his death in June 2012, appointing him as the only group member to perform with The Platters continuously until he died in 2012.
Seventy years after the group’s founding, The Platters continue Mr. Reed’s legacy under the auspices of his hand-picked successor, Frederick J. Balboni Jr., despite a tumultuous history spanning decades of racism and unscrupulous identity thieves in the United States and abroad who have tried to steal its distinctiveness and make it their own.