The spirit of Buddy Holly was alive onstage at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies during last Friday night’s installment of the summer-long “Series at 7,” a diversified offering of performance art.

The Rave-Ons are a nationally touring Buddy Holly and the Crickets tribute act and describe themselves more generally as a high-energy rock ’n’ roll band specializing in the music and style of the genre’s earliest days.