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Nancy Atlas Successfully Launches Live Music at Main Beach

The Nancy Atlas Project including Johnny Leitch, Neil Thomas, Brett King and Richard Rosch successfully launch EH Main Beach live Music.

Nancy Atlas Project performing at EH Main Beach Thursday evening.
Nancy Atlas Project performing at EH Main Beach Thursday evening. (Photo by T.J.Clemente )

The Nancy Atlas Project is more than an east end band now playing together for twenty-five years. They are the pulse of east end live music. They have been participants of a multitude of phenomenal evenings of exciting live music shows. Nancy has had Jimmy Buffett join in and one night she joined Paul Simon on stage to help him perform “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,”at a Stephen Talkhouse benefit.


This last Covid year was a difficult year for all musicians worldwide but on the east end Nancy with the help of Peter Homerkamp and Nick Kraus of the Talkhouse put together live shows from the Talkhouse including an epic Christmas Show that will easily be a YouTube classic for years to come.

Those shows were great for the morale of the local musicians and the live and taped zoomed music was a welcomed tonic of hope for the starved east end music loving audience.

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The original live show at Main Beach was originally scheduled for Tuesday July 6, but a massive thunderstorm had it rescheduled for Thursday July 8th and even with a tropical storm warning the show went on zestfully! Neil Thomas, Brett King, Johnny Leitch, and Richard Rosch have been with Nancy Atlas for 25 years and they are one very tight band.

Hopefully this show will be the first of many for years to come. Highlights consisted of many originals from the “Cut and Run,” CD a favorite of so many east end music lovers.

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The crowd in beach chairs and blankets had their backs to a roaring Atlantic Ocean while the band was set up on the world famous Main Beach promenade.

Moving forward other show will be performed every Tuesday at 6:30 pm weather permitting.

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