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COWSILLS AT RI EVENT
PROVIDENCE - They got their start playing frat parties at Brown University and doing gigs at school dances and church gatherings in Newport. They covered Beatles songs on Bannister's Wharf, which was fitting enough. They hoped to be the next Fab Four: Bill, Bob, Barry and John.
Later, three more family members including their mother, rounded out the fresh-faces clan - The Cowsills - whose harmonies climbed to the top of the pop music charts.
Surviving members of the group that enjoyed a meteoric rise in the 1960s - the Cowsills served as the inspiration for the TV show "The Partridge Family" - are scheduled to perform tonight in Providence. It's a rare on-stage reunion in the state where it all began.
The preformance will follow the premiere of a new documentary about the band's rise and fall, "Family Band: The Cowsills Story," at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. The 90-minute film is being screened at 6:30 p.m. at Veterans Memoial Auditorium. Bob, Paul and Susan Cowsill will perform. Their brother, Richard, who was not in the band, will join them for a question-and-answer session.
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