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A crowd of mostly Baby Boomers rocked an otherwise silent volcano -- dancing and singing to the first concert inside Diamond Head crater in nearly 30 years.
Thousands of predominantly middle-aged fans, clad in tie-dye and Aloha shirts, flocked to this muddy arena once again for a daylong festival with the Steve Miller Band, Linda Ronstadt, Yvonne Elliman, WAR, and the Honolulu Symphony. It was the first show inside the crater since 1978.
Back on the mainland, the kids are out with friends or old enough to make their own plans. And in Cincinnati, Chris Lane was in the mood to dance, but the music in most nightclubs makes your head throb, or the dank, smoky atmosphere reminds you of being trapped in an airport smoking lounge. That's why he and his wife Linda Martin stopped complaining about it and recently started the Boomers Dance Club night.
"It was primarily because we'd go out with friends in (their) late 40s and 50s, and after dinner ended at around 9:30, we'd look for a place to go to hear music - and every club was dominated by the 20-something crowd or smoke-filled," says Lane, 53, about the impetus for the monthly club night for the 40-60 set. "I was muttering over the last few years that one of these days, I would start a nightclub. And I finally got around to it."
"A lot of people have been looking for something like this for a while," says Lane, who works part-time as a loan officer at Guardian Savings Bank. "And the dance floor was packed all night, no matter what music was playing."
Sources: Hawaii News, April 2, 2006 and Cincinnati Enquirer, March 31, 2006
