First Jason (ft. Ari Lehman - the original Jason Voorhees) w/ BA Johnston
Date and time
Fri, Dec 6, 2024 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM EST. Doors at 7:30pm
Location
The Mill - Underground: 20 John Pound Road Tillsonburg, ON N4G0B9
Performers
First Jason
BA Johnston
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About this event
$20 adv. (+ fees if purchased via Eventbrite) $30 night of. Doors 7:30 pm. Showtime 8:30pm. all ages/licensed.
Friday December 6th 2024 - NIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS HALLOWEEN PARTY
featuring live music, horror vendors & costume contest. Meet & Greets available for purchase night of with the original Jason Voorhees from 'Friday The 13th'
FIRST JASON (Chicago, IL)
Ari Lehman is an American performing artist, composer, and actor. He is best known for having played the first Jason Voorhees as a child in the iconic final Crystal Lake scenes in the Paramount horror film Friday the 13th.
A native New Yorker, Ari Lehman grew up in Westport, CT, where he trained in Classical Music and Jazz Piano. Lehman was presented with an All-State Award for Excellence in Jazz Piano and a scholarship to Berklee School of Music by the famous jazz educator, Dr. Billy Taylor
After the release of Friday the 13th, Lehman returned to New York City where he enrolled at New York University and concentrated on Big Band Orchestration and Jazz Piano, 'where he studied with the likes of Vladmir Shafranov. Lehman's career led him to become a prominent touring keyboardist for some of the top names in Reggae and African music of the time, with whom he toured throughout the US, Europe and West Africa, and recorded with at Tuff Gong Records and Interscope Records.
First Jason has independently released four albums: Jason is Watching! (2009), with Chuck Lescewicz 'Nefarious' from Chicago death metal band Macabre playing bass, and Amit Shamir 'Cleaver' from New York hardcore band Cro-Mags on drums and 'Heed My Warning,'(2013), described by Uber Rock (UK) as 'a brand of thinking man's horror-themed rock.' “To Be a Monster” (2017) and their most popular album to date “LORD OF THE LAKE” (2019) that contains the hits “KILL FOR MOTHER” and “VOORHEES IS THE NAME” which both have videos up on YouTube.
BA JOHNSTON (Hamilton, Ontario)
The pride and joy of Hamilton, Ontario, the inimitable B.A. Johnston is a Canadian Folk Music/Synth-Pop/comedy musician. Johnston specializes in rambling, stream-of-consciousness pop and folk songs about pop culture, junk food and the less glamorous side of Canadian living, namedropping cheap Canadian stores in his songs like Dollarama and No Frills.