Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen show slated for May 19

The Rappahannock Concert Association will present Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen in concert at 7:30 p.m. May 19, at the Northumberland County Schools Performing Arts Theater, 201 Academic Lane, Heathsville.

Artist, musician and pioneering band leader George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody, helped invent a whole new style of music during the early 1970s, reported public relations chairman Nellie Landrum. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen fused American roots music, basic rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, bop, country, western swing and rockabilly, for a country-rock sound…