MCB BOARD January, 2025 through January 31, 2026

Pictured above :To be updated as pictures are available

L to R: Shellie Waites, President; Rick Holt, 1st VP; Myra Waites, 2nd VP,

Jackie Lorino,Treasurer, Kay Holt, Secretary; Jennifer Holder, Membership, Door

(currently vacant - we hope to have volunteers each month)

 

In the late 1980's a group of beach music lovers from Bessemer and Birmingham began gathering at WT's Bar and Grill in Bessemer on Friday nights, listening and bopping to music from their teenage years of the late 1950's and 1960's.  Carl Simonetti and Ben Saxon, local DJ's, played music from artists such as Sonny Boy's and Jimmy Reed's harmonica blues, Ernie K-Doe's and Fats Domino's New Orleans rhythms, along with The Drifters, Hank Ballard, and the Temptations, to name just a few.  This was just the beginning of what would soon evolve in1990, under the leadership of Phil Graf, and become known as The Magic City Boppers.  The club is still very active today.  We currently have two long-time members in the American Bop Association Hall of Fame: Phil Graf and Virginia Jones.   Our weekly meetings are currently on Thursdays (except for the 3rd Thursday) at Overtime Bar & Grill from 7 to 10 PM and monthly parties on the 3rd Sunday (except for December which is the first Sunday) at the Kelly Ingram VFW Post 668 from 2 to 5 PM.   Please go to the Events page for details.

​                                  Shellie Waites, President        

                                  Rick Holt, 1st VP

                                  Myra Waites, 2nd VP             

                                  Jackie Lorino, Treasurer           

                                  Kay Holt, Secretary

                                 Jennifer Holder, Membership                                                                             (Vacant), Door  

Other Key Workers:

        Jerri Turner, Website jerrit1947@gmail.com   

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        DJ's:  Bob Ausman, Susan Ausman, George Buchanan, and Cecil Kuykendall