introduction
In
1983, Tony Raine developed and promoted the first BEATLES Tours for BEATLES
fans
to London and Liverpool.
Raines company, Rock Apple Tours, developed
contracts at that time to represent several
music-oriented tourist ventures
in the United Kingdom, including ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS.
" The Beatles at
Abbey Road" won an English Tourist Board award for outstanding tourist attraction
in 1984.Raine
became involved full time in the music business, his first love in 1985.
Since
then, Raine has pursued a successful career in New England as a concert producer,
promoter and artist manager, and during the past 20 years he has worked with countless
national and international artists.
When
Raine left the travel business, an idea was shelved for a number of years.
His
concept was to develop a tour for true music aficionados which would include visits
to all of the southeastern US locales from where the American music boom of the
fifties and sixties---
Blues, Soul, R&B, Rockabilly, Country & Western,
Bluegrass, Jazz--
-and major influential artists---Elvis Presley, Otis Redding,
Rufus Thomas, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams,
BB King, Muddy Waters, Carl Perkins,
Patsy Cline, even Jack Daniels!---emerged.
Since
2007 Raine has been traveling, researching and developing his Southern Musical
Heritage Tour.
A Musical Heritage Journey through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Tennessee.
By touring aboard Rock Star Coaches, and traveling in a small
group,
this experience is personalized, friendly and intimate.
We invite
you to bring your instruments or use ours, jam in the Juke Joints where Muddy
Waters and BB King got their start, and even make a demo record at Sun Studios
in Memphis, record at Musclke Shoals Sound and even take a home a video memory.
Tours
can be customized for small groups, a group of friends or for corporate company
adventure.
Whistling
Dixie Tours invite you and your group or company to
"TRAVEL LIKE ROCK
STARS"
and take this very special journey beyond your record collection.
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