Benny Mardones in Concert
What: Benny Mardones Where: Turning Stone Resort & Casino When: Dec. 8 Time: Two hours and 14 minutes Crowd: 678 An enthusiastic crowd waited in the Showroom at Turning Stone when, against medical advice, Benny Mardones walked onto the stage for his eleventh annual Christmas Concert. “There was no one who believed I’d make it to the Christmas show tonight. Not my doctors, even I had some doubts,” Mardones, 61, said. Mardones, nicknamed “The Voice” for his vocal range, performed 17 songs in a concert that lasted over two hours, standing for most of that time, when two months ago he was unable to walk. A car accident on October 17 of this year left him hospitalized, and only though physical therapy was he able to reach his goal of making it to Verona for the Christmas concert in Central New York, which Mardones calls his “adopted home town.” “I told the nurse, tell me what I have to do, and I’ll do it. She said, ‘I don’t think that’s going to be possible. ...