Salisbury’s piano man, Billy Burke, dies at 95

  • By Mark Wineka

    mwineka@salisburypost.com

  • Thursday, February 7th, 2013
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In a March 2012 photo, Billy Burke talks with the cast and crew of the musical 'Huck Finn' at Catawba College. Burke composed 15 songs for the first running of the play in 1955 and came back to reminisce and give some background of the orginals to the current students. He died Wednesday at age 95. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

In a March 2012 photo, Billy Burke talks with the cast and crew of the musical 'Huck Finn' at Catawba College. Burke composed 15 songs for the first running of the play in 1955 and came back to reminisce and give some background of the orginals to the current students. He died Wednesday at age 95. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.