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You can be transported back to the late 1950s at a show coming to Haverhill next week.

Featuring classic rock ‘n’ roll songs from the period 1955–1960, Let The Good Times Roll is a stage show that will have the audience at Haverhill Arts Centre stomping and clapping in their seats on Saturday, July at 7.30pm.

This energetic show tells the history of rock 'n' roll from its inception in 1955 when DJ Alan Freed coined the phrase, to 1960, a year by which time Elvis had been inducted into the army, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were all dead and Jerry Lee Lewis had been blacklisted for marrying his 14-year-old cousin!

Starring acclaimed boogie woogie pianist and singer Peter Gill with his band, the sensational State 51, Let The Good Times Roll features favourites such as Great Balls Of Fire, Johnny B Goode, Blue Suede Shoes, Rock Around The Clock, La Bamba, Peggy Sue, Summertime Blues and Chantilly Lace.

Peter Gill has appeared all over the world and has been heralded as one of the UK's hottest boogie woogie talents.

In 1999 he was hand-picked from a national search to co-open Jool's Holland's Jam House in Birmingham as one of the two famed 'Duelling Pianists'. Since then he has been in constant demand on the cabaret and corporate circuit.

Tickets to the show are £13, and you can call the Arts Centre box office on 01440 714140, www.haverhillartscentre.co.uk