Blue Oyster Cult At The NYS Fair and the Geneva Connection

The band Blue Öyster Cult poses in black attire with their logo displayed below them.
The rock band Blue Öyster Cult poses for a promotional photo.

You know the songs “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and “Godzilla” and you’ll hear both tonight as Blue Oyster Cult plays the Great New York State Fair.  What you might not know is lead singer and guitarist Eric Bloom is a 1967 graduate of Hobart College in Geneva.

 

Eric was a good friend of another Geneva musician – the late Wilmer Alexander.

 

Blue Oyster Cult plays tonight at 6p.m. at Chevy Court at state fair.

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