The Springfield Arts Council’s 2024 SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL welcomes McGuffey Lane back to Veterans Park Amphitheater.
Celebrating 50 years of entertaining, McGuffey Lane was formed in the early 1970s by Terry Efaw and Steve Reis. After adding songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist Bobby E. McNelley, they became McGuffey Lane, (the location of Reis’s Athens home.) The band eventually expanded to a sextet and became well-known locally, releasing their first album on their own Paradise Island record label, selling more than 40,000 copies and eventually resulting in their signing with Atco Records. They reissued the debut in 1980 and toured with the Charlie Daniels Band, The Judds, and the Allman Brothers Band.
The group played into the late 1980s but had dissolved by 1990. In 1995, they reunited after releasing a greatest hits album, and continued performing. McGuffey Lane is still going strong with the three original surviving members (Steve George Reis, Terry Efaw and John Schwab) in the band.
Presented by the Springfield Arts Council. Admission-free event; donations encouraged at intermission.
