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The Cowsills, the hit-making pop music group that is also a family enterprise, will be presented in concert Tuesday, February 23, at 7 p.m. in the Bend High School Auditorium. Doors will open at 6:30, and if the show is a sell-out, a repeat performance will be given at 9 o'clock.
The booking, only one in Oregon for the group's mid-winter tour, has been arranged by the Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College. Tickets will sell at $2.50 in advance and $3 at the door. They are available at the COCC book store, Darrell's House of Music and Hatfield's Department Store in Bend; Redmond Radio and Music Center, Madras Music Center and Prineville Thriftwise Drug Store.
The college has guaranteed the group $2,500 or 90 per cent of the gate, whichever is greater. Bookings around the nation for the Cowsills have averaged between $6,000 and $7,000 at pre-arranged fees, and around $10,000 on a percentage basis.
The Cinderella story of the talented tribe of seven children, a mother and a father, has been well documented, fraught as it was the narrative color. The family moved recently from the run-down, sparsely furnished 22-room mansion in Newport, R.I., to a sprawling Spanish-style house in Santa Monica, Calif.
Now appearing in the group with the parents, Barbara and Bud, are Bob, 21; Paul, 18; Barry, 16; John, 14, and Susan, 11. Bill, who no longer performs and records with the group, has become an independent record producer.
The Cowsills exploded into the national musical consciousness in June, 1967, with their first MGM album, "The Cowsills," which contained the group's first million-seller, "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things."
Among their hits in recent years were "Hair," "We Can Fly" and "Indian Lake."
The Concert is the principal student COCC student body project for winter term. Last term, the students sponsored a lecture by Ralph Nader.
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