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Do You Have Long Island Music Memorabilia to Donate to New Port Jeff Museum?

Long Island Music Hall of Fame board memebers implore the public for their musical artifacts.

You may not have bidders clamoring for that rock concert ticket stub sitting in your drawer or that poster you took off the wall of a club back in the 1970s on ebay but the designers of a new Long Island music history museum would like to get a look at it.

According to exhibit designer Kevin O'Callaghan the museum wants Long Islanders to dig deep into attics, closets and back drawers and send their souvenirs from music history to the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.

Eventually, your piece of Long Island music history might make it into an exhibit.

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O'Callaghan says that they already have started collecting artifacts from Long Island music history. They have items both big and small, iconic and odd, from a piano donated by Billy Joel to a speech written on a napkin by Dee Snider when he went to Albany to speak to the New York State legislature about music censorship.

The museum's exhibits will focus not only on the people but the places that dormed and influenced the Long Island music scene.

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"We'll focus on different regions of Long Island," said O'Callaghan at a .

He imagines an exclectic mix of items and exhibitions, including interactive experiences.

Do you have something you thing the Long Island Hall of Fame museum might want for its exhibits? Contact the Long Island Music Hall of Fame throught its website.

Also, tell us about what you might have to donate in the comments and let us know about your Long Island music memories.


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