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By James Onysko<br />
Festival International de Musique<br />
Universitaire in Belfort, France (see www.<br />
fi mu.com), marked a major milestone<br />
during the recent Pentecostal weekend in<br />
mid-June 20<strong>11</strong>, in celebration of cultural<br />
diversity via the occasion of its 25th Anniversary,<br />
ensuring the continued longevity<br />
of the town’s reputation as an important<br />
place on the festival circuit.<br />
The sole American artist selected by<br />
committee was local blues player, Austin<br />
‘Walkin’ Cane’ Charanghat, in a series of<br />
encore performances (he made his debut<br />
at F.I.M.U. 2009), with just his National<br />
Reso-Phonic guitar and powerfully-gruff<br />
but melodic voice, delivering Delta-Blues<br />
slide guitar stylings. Visit www.walkincane.com<br />
for more information.<br />
It was my great honor to accompany<br />
Austin in my role as USA Correspondent<br />
to this prestigious festival. For me, it was<br />
my tenth sojourn to this charming town in<br />
the Franche-Comte region, nestled near<br />
to ‘des Vosges’ mountains and bordering<br />
Alsace - the great wine-producing territory<br />
in the eastern part of France.<br />
More than 3500 musicians from 31<br />
countries participated by generously offering<br />
their talents to enthusiastic audiences during<br />
this weekend-long free festival. That’s right.<br />
I said FREE! It’s part of the F.I.M.U. formula<br />
for success: give music lovers real choice, and<br />
the freedom to move about at a leisurely pace,<br />
allowing ample time to discover new sounds.<br />
Powered by a massive volunteer effort,<br />
the F.I.M.U. Team is a winning one, directed<br />
by Richard Gorrieri of Pole Musique, who<br />
has been part of the ‘esprit de corps’ since the<br />
very fi rst festival in 1987 - at that time, a music<br />
student-inspired endeavor - and all these<br />
years later “bringing more than 300 volunteers<br />
for jobs with responsibilities, like groups’<br />
pilots, technical jobs or welcoming the public,<br />
which make possible all the organization, high<br />
quality performances and the overall enthusiasm<br />
during the festival”.<br />
Again, from the F.I.M.U. Press Pack:<br />
“The free concerts, the diversity of musical<br />
styles, the student’s dimension, and the communication<br />
through the music, make F.I.M.U.<br />
a unique event in France. From classical<br />
music to hip-hop, from rock to world music<br />
via jazz and new music .... the variety of musical<br />
styles from the program speaks about the<br />
multicultural spirit of the festival”, which give<br />
attendees (approximately 80,000 in 2010) a<br />
sense of friendliness about the place with all<br />
of the ensuing cultural exchanges.<br />
The following year in 1988, the Town<br />
Hall of Belfort, in collaboration with the<br />
~ Continued on Page 20<br />
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21 ..........................Mind Body Spirit<br />
22 .................................Stay In Tune<br />
24 ..........................Kickin It Country<br />
26 ............................. Movie Reviews<br />
28 ............................Just For Laughs<br />
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‘Locavore’ -- The New Oxford American Dictionary ‘Word of the Year in 2007.’<br />
Sometimes spelled ‘Localvore,’ this new<br />
buzzword offers an ideal new way to promote<br />
our region. The word was coined a couple<br />
of years ago by a group of four women in<br />
California who talked about, then wrote a<br />
couple of newspaper articles touting why<br />
residents of the Sunshine State should try to<br />
eat only locally grown items. They contended<br />
the goal was to create a healthier lifestyle.<br />
Internationally, the idea has been fed by the<br />
‘agri-tourism’ and ‘culinary-tourism’ trends.<br />
The Italians launched what they call the ‘Slow<br />
Food’ movement a half dozen years ago. Eric<br />
Long of Portland has created the ‘Internationally<br />
Culinary Tourism Federation in 2002. And<br />
nearly every national tourism conference in<br />
the past couple of years has hosted an ‘agritourism’<br />
expert.<br />
The initiative has also been enhanced by<br />
technology. Mark Penn, once the guru behind<br />
the Clinton election campaign machine has,<br />
in his other life, a research and polling fi rm<br />
that looks at major trends in contemporary<br />
American culture. [His politics aside - I am<br />
taking NO sides in this one - the guy is a clear<br />
thinker and amazing observer of humankind.<br />
His initial claim to fame was identifying the<br />
oft pursued ‘soccer moms’ who supposedly<br />
helped elect Bill Clinton.] It is Penn’s theory<br />
that given mass communication, a small group<br />
of very committed people with a true passion<br />
for their cause can create a ‘Trend’ with international<br />
implications. Locavore fi ts perfectly<br />
into his defi nition of such a ‘Trend.’<br />
The rationale that is behind the movement<br />
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the local economy. It means fewer preservatives,<br />
but also less cardboard and plastic in<br />
the packaging and the use of less energy for<br />
transport. It also means more ‘experimental’<br />
opportunities since visiting a vineyard or<br />
picking strawberries fresh from a patch creates<br />
memories in addition to providing a mealtime<br />
beverage or luscious dish of shortcake. It<br />
means a longer dollar for our farmers: people<br />
are willing to pay a premium for high quality,<br />
appealing foods.<br />
And the concept is one which fi ts perfectly<br />
to our situation in northeast Ohio. We<br />
have a large population base, lots of wineries,<br />
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and all the other necessary elements to make<br />
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While those of us in the wine business<br />
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that feature primarily local foods which are in<br />
season – or – and here is the hook for us: if<br />
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Black Cherry<br />
Barbeque Sauce<br />
Ingredients<br />
· 3/4 cup black cherry soda<br />
· 1 can Bing cherries (17 ounces), drained<br />
· 3 Tablespoons cherry preserves<br />
· 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice, or more to taste<br />
· 2 Tablespoons butter<br />
· 1 Tablespoon sugar, or more to taste<br />
· 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon<br />
· 1/4 cup dry red wine<br />
· 1 Tablespoon cornstarch<br />
· Coarse salt (kosher or sea) and freshly ground<br />
black pepper<br />
Directions<br />
Preparation: Put the cherry soda, cherries,<br />
cherry preserves, lemon juice, butter, sugar, cinnamon,<br />
and 3 tablespoons of the wine in a heavy<br />
saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce<br />
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Put the remaining 1 tablespoon wine and the<br />
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Serve warm or at room temperature. The sauce can<br />
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BLUES FOUNDATION AWARDS<br />
The Blues Foundation held its 32nd<br />
annual Blues Music Awards ceremony on<br />
Thursday, May 5th, 20<strong>11</strong> at the Cook Convention<br />
Center in Memphis, Tennessee. This<br />
year’s event was a real houserockin’ blow-out,<br />
running better than seven hours and featuring<br />
performances by dozens of deserving nominees.<br />
Like last year, the awards ceremony was<br />
broadcast live on XM Sirius satellite radio, on<br />
B.B. King’s Bluesville channel.<br />
There were few real surprises among<br />
this year’s group of Blues Music Award nominees.<br />
There were a number of landmark albums<br />
in the blues released during 2010, among<br />
them Charlie Musselwhite’s excellent The<br />
Well, Janiva Magness’s The Devil Is An Angel<br />
Too, Eden Brent’s Ain’t Got No Troubles, and<br />
Buddy Guy’s Living Proof, among others, and<br />
the aforementioned artists received multiple<br />
nominations apiece. Several artists, including<br />
Robin Rogers, John Nemeth, Tad Robinson,<br />
and Shemekia Copeland, all received one or<br />
more well-deserved nominations, and overall<br />
this year’s crop of talent is pretty impressive.<br />
Here are the Blues Music Award nominees and<br />
winners for 20<strong>11</strong>:<br />
Acoustic Album of the Year<br />
The Nighthawks’ Last Train to Bluesville beat<br />
out Paul Oscher - Bet On The Blues, Eric Bibb<br />
– Booker’s Guitar, South Memphis String<br />
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Acoustic Artist of the<br />
Year<br />
John Hammond was<br />
honored, beating out<br />
fellow nominees Doug<br />
MacLeod, Eric Bibb,<br />
Guy Davis, and Paul<br />
Oscher.<br />
Album of the Year<br />
Buddy Guy’s Living<br />
Proof won top<br />
honors; also nominated<br />
were newcomer Eden Brent - Ain’t Got No<br />
Troubles, The Mannish Boys - Shake for Me,<br />
Janiva Magness – The Devil Is An Angel,<br />
Tooan, and Charlie Musselwhite - The<br />
Well.<br />
B.B King Entertainer of the Year<br />
Buddy Guy took this one, beating out<br />
Janiva Magness, Joe Louis Walker,<br />
Kenny Neal, and Super Chikan.<br />
Band of the Year<br />
Derek Trucks Band garnered this one;<br />
fellow nominees were Magic Slim &<br />
the Teardrops, the Nick Moss Band,<br />
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, longtime veterans<br />
The Holmes Brothers, Kilborn<br />
Alley Blues Band, and the Mannish<br />
Boys.<br />
Best New Artist Debut<br />
The award went to Matt Hill - On<br />
the Floor; also nominated were<br />
Chris O’Leary Band, Claudette<br />
King, Peter Parcek III, and The<br />
Vincent Hayes Project.<br />
Contemporary Blues Album of<br />
the Year<br />
Buddy Guy - Living Proof beat out<br />
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King<br />
- Have Blues Will Travel, John<br />
Nemeth – Name the Day, Karen Lovely - Still<br />
The Rain, and Janiva Magness - The Devil Is<br />
An Angel Too.<br />
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Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the<br />
Year<br />
Robin Rogers was awarded posthumously,<br />
after losing her battle with liver disease earlier<br />
this year. Also nominated were: Candye Kane,<br />
Janiva Magness, Karen Lovely, and Shemekia<br />
Copeland.<br />
Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the<br />
Year<br />
Buddy Guy was on a roll, winning this one<br />
too, over fellow nominees Joe Louis Walker,<br />
John Nemeth, Kenny Neal, and Nick Moss.<br />
DVD of the Year<br />
Luther Allison - Songs From The Road took<br />
top honors. Also nominated were: Various Artists<br />
- The Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Concert,<br />
Tail Dragger - Live at Rooster’s Place, Watermelon<br />
Slim & the Workers - Live at Ground<br />
Zero Blues Club, and Mac Arnold - Nothing<br />
to Prove.<br />
Historical Album of the Year<br />
Bob Corritore & Friends – Harmonica<br />
Blues, winning over Little Smokey Smothers<br />
& Elvin Bishop - Chicago Blues Buddies,<br />
Various Artists - Jimmy Dawkins Presents the<br />
Leric Story, Junior Wells & the Aces – Live<br />
in Boston 1966, and Luther Allison – Songs<br />
From the Road.<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Bass: Bob Stroger<br />
NOW open!<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Drums: Cedric<br />
Burnside<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Guitar: Derek<br />
Trucks<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Harmonica: Charlie<br />
Musselwhite<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Horn: Eddie Shaw<br />
Best Instrumentalist – Other: Sonny<br />
Rhodes - lap steel guitar<br />
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award: Dr.<br />
John<br />
Rock Blues Album of the Year: Kenny<br />
Wayne Shepherd Band – Live! In Chicago<br />
Song of the Year: Tom Hambridge & Buddy<br />
Guy - “Living Proof”<br />
Soul Blues Album of the Year: Solomon<br />
Burke (posthumously) - Nothing’s Impossible<br />
Soul Blues - Female Artist of the Year: Irma<br />
Thomas<br />
Soul Blues - Male Artist of the Year: Solomon<br />
Burke (posthumously)<br />
Traditional Blues Album of the Year:<br />
Pinetop Perkins & Willie “Big Eyes” Smith<br />
- Joined At The Hip<br />
Traditional Blues - Male Artist of the Year:<br />
Charlie Musselwhite<br />
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues –<br />
Female Artist of the Year): Ruthie Foster<br />
DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL<br />
Beachland Ballroom<br />
Sat July 16 (5pm-1:30am)<br />
You heard the rumors and they are<br />
true! After a one year hiatus, Deep Blues<br />
Festival rides again. It is being revived this<br />
year with the blessings of the event’s founder,<br />
Chris Johnson. This time around, Deep Blues<br />
Festival is a totally artist-driven, one day<br />
event in Cleveland at the infamous Beachland<br />
Ballroom on July 16th. So what is Deep Blues<br />
Festival? It is the biggest outsider blues festival<br />
in the country. If you like your blues music<br />
to involve creativity, originality and proof<br />
that this is still an immensely vibrant musical<br />
form...then this is the festival for you. The<br />
event steps outside the realm of<br />
mainstream blues, featuring “dirty<br />
roots music” bands from across the<br />
country, playing continuously on two<br />
stages from 5 p.m. until closing.<br />
Deep Blues Festival Line-up<br />
Boom Chick (NYC)<br />
Cashman (Nashville/Houston)<br />
Javier & the Innocent Sons (Minneapolis)<br />
Left Lane Cruiser (Fort Wayne)<br />
Mark “Porkchop” Holder (Chattanooga)<br />
Misery Jackals (Akron)<br />
Mississippi Gabe Carter (Chicago)<br />
Molly Gene One Whoaman Band<br />
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Deep Blues Festival 20<strong>11</strong> is being<br />
staged as an event for the dirty roots music<br />
community without promoter involvement. It<br />
is an entirely band-run event, with the artists<br />
splitting the proceeds. Beachland Ballroom is<br />
located at 157<strong>11</strong> Waterloo Road, Cleveland.<br />
(Phone: 216-383-<strong>11</strong>24) Tickets for the festival<br />
are now available for $20 at http://www.<br />
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R.I.P.<br />
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Gil Scott-Heron<br />
We mark the passing<br />
of two great musicians who,<br />
although not blues artists<br />
per se, made an undeniable<br />
mark on the world of blues<br />
and jazz – spoken word<br />
innovator Gil Scott Heron<br />
and saxophonist Clarence<br />
Clemons.<br />
Saxophonist Clarence<br />
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around the world to millions<br />
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20<strong>11</strong> Lakefront Summer Concert Series<br />
Geneva Township Park Geneva-on-the-Lake<br />
FREE Concerts Every Tuesday at 7pm<br />
(Donations accepted by passing of donation can)<br />
July 5: The Blues Project Blues and Easy Listening.<br />
July 12: The Lost Sheep Band Classic Rock.<br />
July 19: The Magic Buttons Button Box Style Polka,<br />
Waltzes, and More.<br />
July 26: Madison Band Big Band sounds.<br />
August 02: Blue Grass Concert.<br />
August 09: Erie Heights Brass Ensemble<br />
Times Past Concerts in the Park Music.<br />
August 16: Cadillac Lilly the Little Big Band<br />
Swing, Jazz, and Blues.<br />
August 23: Allison Lehr Gospel Music.<br />
August 30: Geneva Community Choir.<br />
Sponsored by the Geneva on the Lake Visitors Bureau<br />
AROUND TOWN<br />
12th Annual Garage Sale Bonanza! to<br />
Benefi t Twelve Ashtabula County Organizations.<br />
<strong>Vol</strong>unteers are busy preparing for the<br />
12th Annual Garage Sale Bonanza coordinated<br />
by the Wellness & Total Learning Center.<br />
Scheduled this year for Friday, Saturday and<br />
Sunday, July 8, 9, and 10, 9 am – 6 pm, the<br />
extravaganza will be held at the old Big Lots<br />
Store and the adjoining vacant store in the<br />
Saybrook Plaza on Rt. 20 in Saybrook. An<br />
antique appraisal of special items is available<br />
on site for $5 per item on Friday, June 24 from<br />
6 pm – 8 pm. The initial shopping opportunity<br />
will occur at the Pre-Sale on Wednesday, July<br />
6, from 5 pm – 8 pm for a $10 fee. Admission<br />
is free during the sale.<br />
<strong>Vol</strong>unteers are needed over the next six<br />
weeks to pick up and drop off items, process<br />
items on site, prepare displays, price items and<br />
distribute fl yers throughout the county. Call<br />
Bonanza Coordinator Dick Mueller (Ph: 440-<br />
319-2248) if you are interested in volunteering.<br />
Mark your calendars to treasure-hunt this<br />
organized sale of over 21,000 square feet and<br />
bring your family and friends to benefi t twelve<br />
very worthy Ashtabula County organizations.<br />
The benefi ting organizations for the 20<strong>11</strong><br />
Bonanza include: Animal Protective League,<br />
Conversation Station of Orwell, Dental Task<br />
Force, Faith in Action Caregivers, Friends of<br />
Children Services (Hannah Cleversy Race,<br />
Foster Parents Association and Help Me<br />
Grow), Girl Scout Troop 525, Independent<br />
Living Services, Lions Club of Geneva, LIV-<br />
ING! with Cancer Support Group, Retired and<br />
Senior <strong>Vol</strong>unteer Program (RSVP), Spiderweb<br />
of Jefferson and the Wellness & Total Learning<br />
Center.<br />
The Mariner Memorial Park Association<br />
will be hosting the 2nd Annual BASH<br />
on July 2nd at Kathryn Rose Party Center,<br />
3<strong>11</strong>6 <strong>North</strong> Bend Rd., Ashtabula from <strong>11</strong> am<br />
to 7 pm. This event will also mark the unoffi<br />
cial Harbor High School Class of 1975, as<br />
well as a HHS All Class Reunion, all rolled<br />
into one. More than 30 crafters and vendors<br />
will participate and the party center will<br />
provide concessions. There will be free music<br />
provided by three bands. Family Tradition<br />
will play from <strong>11</strong> am to 2 pm; Brock Taylor<br />
and his acoustic guitar from 2 pm to 4 pm and<br />
the Lady Midnight Riders will close the day<br />
from 4 pm to 7 pm. The Ladies will host a<br />
dance contest with prizes. There will also be<br />
a Bake Sale, 50/50 Raffl e, Chinese Auction,<br />
and games for children. Some of the sponsors<br />
for the Chinese Auction are the Cleveland<br />
Indians, Ringling Bros. Circus, Lake County<br />
Captains, Deer Park, and Raceway 7 to name<br />
a few. Come Join Us in the Fun and re-connect<br />
with Old Friends and Classmates!<br />
July 2nd.... Harpers Field Day is taking<br />
place on the south side of the Grand<br />
River in Harpersfi eld. (Approx 4 mi south of<br />
Geneva) There will be races, WII competition,<br />
food, and our own local celebrity Jungle Terry.<br />
“Friends of Harpersfi eld Covered Bridge<br />
Park” was formed due to park vandalism at<br />
the Harpersfi eld Covered Bridge last year.<br />
Since then they have held many events to raise<br />
money to purchase equipment, perform lawn<br />
care and to make improvements. There will be<br />
a very special drawing taking place for DIN-<br />
NER ON THE RIVER. Tickets are $5.00 each<br />
or 6 for $20.00 for a chance to win Dinner<br />
served along the river’s edge for 10 people!<br />
This will include table linens, fl oral bouquet,<br />
Steak and Lobster and all the sides plus Desserts!<br />
Enjoy the beautiful scenic view while<br />
being entertained with our selected musician.<br />
The winner will be the envy of all! Drawing<br />
will take place at the Harpersfi eld Beef Roast<br />
on July 17th between 6-7 p.m. Support a great<br />
cause and have a chance to win the perfect<br />
evening! For Tickets call 440-466-3661- 440-<br />
477-5001 or 440-645-5059.<br />
A Look Ahead at Straw Hat Theater!<br />
With one show down and two to go, Straw<br />
Hat Theatre at the Ashtabula Arts Center 2928<br />
West 13th St., Ashtabula, OH is in high gear<br />
as it prepares to open the second show of the<br />
season “Footloose” on July 8 with additional<br />
performances on July 9 & 10, 15 - 17, 22 - 24,<br />
and 28 - 30. “‘Footloose’ has been an audience<br />
favorite for years and manages to pack local<br />
theaters anytime it is produced” says Public<br />
Relations/Marketing Coordinator Pamela<br />
Hammond. Directed by Kim Godfrey of Perry,<br />
this musical sensation not only has a captivating<br />
story about a young man fi ghting for the<br />
younger generation, but it is fi lled with upbeat<br />
and audience pleasing music as well. (The<br />
soundtrack album reached number one on the<br />
Billboard charts and has sold over 15 million<br />
copies!)<br />
The fi nal show of the Straw Hat Theatre<br />
season will be “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”<br />
Based on the fi lm “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”<br />
the show will play for three weekends on<br />
Aug 5 - 7, 12 – 14 and 18 – 20. Directed by<br />
Stephen Rhodes, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” is<br />
a hilarious comedy centered on two con men<br />
living along the French Riviera. After meeting<br />
on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work<br />
together only to fi nd that this small French<br />
town isn’t big enough for the two of them.<br />
They agree on a settlement: the fi rst one to extract<br />
$50,000 from a young female target, heiress<br />
Christine Colgate, wins and the other must<br />
leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues,<br />
that will keep audiences laughing, humming<br />
and guessing to the end! “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”<br />
is not intended for children and contains<br />
material that may offend some people.<br />
All Straw Hat Theatre shows begin at<br />
8:00 p.m. Box offi ce ticket prices are $14 for<br />
patron seating, $12 Adults and $<strong>11</strong> Seniors/<br />
Students. Advance-sale, pre-paid tickets will<br />
receive a $2 discount per ticket. Advance sale<br />
tickets must be purchased before 4 p.m. on the<br />
day of the show or by Saturday for all Sunday<br />
performances. Tickets can be purchased by<br />
calling the Arts Center at (440) 964-3396.<br />
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By Don Perry<br />
One of my favorite things about summertime<br />
along the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> is seeing the<br />
friends who return to our area year after year<br />
to enjoy the music, wineries, restaurants and<br />
the lakeshore. Every summer people from<br />
cities such as Youngstown, Akron, Pittsburgh<br />
and beyond, travel to spend the day, the<br />
weekend, or even longer, along the Lake Erie<br />
shore. Over the past several years, I’ve been<br />
blessed with the opportunity to meet hundreds<br />
of these travelers and share music, conversation<br />
and sunny (and some not so sunny) days.<br />
A common theme that will come to the<br />
forefront of any conversation, be it with a fi rst<br />
time visitor or someone who returns annually,<br />
is the abundance of live entertainment<br />
that can be found in <strong>North</strong>eastern Ohio. Yet<br />
this factor is only one portion of the equation,<br />
another component is the abundance<br />
of venues where live music can be found.<br />
Another factor, especially in the jazz genre, is<br />
the amount of highly skilled performers who<br />
are also educators.<br />
We owe a special debt of gratitude to<br />
these individuals, who fi nd it in their hearts<br />
to pass along the knowledge that has been<br />
granted to them by experience, hard work<br />
and a lifetime of dedication to their art. Their<br />
passion extends beyond simply performing<br />
the music they love. It also consists of the<br />
desire to pass along, to future generations, the<br />
lessons of the masters who have come before<br />
them, thus keeping the art form alive.<br />
The good folks at JWP Productions and<br />
Nighttown, also recognize the value of the<br />
educator/performers that have made their<br />
home in the Cleveland area. Besides bringing<br />
National and International acts to town,<br />
Nighttown’s upcoming schedule features<br />
some of Cleveland’s premier jazz masters.<br />
Whether this is your fi rst visit to <strong>North</strong>eastern<br />
Ohio, you have vacationed in Genevaon-the-Lake<br />
since your childhood days, or<br />
you have lived on the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> all of your<br />
life, you owe it to yourself to attend at least<br />
one of these upcoming shows. You should not<br />
pass up the opportunity to witness the performance<br />
of a true master of his craft.<br />
C-Town Jazz Quintet: Thursday, June<br />
30th 8 pm.<br />
Featuring: Kenny Davis-trumpet, David<br />
Thomas-piano, Derrick James-electric bass,<br />
Elijah Gilmore-drums, & Ide Ebose-saxophone.<br />
Veteran trumpeter Kenny Davis is a<br />
retired member of the jazz faculty at Oberlin<br />
College and was a member of the Duke<br />
Ellington Orchestra in the late 70’s. Additionally<br />
he worked in the house band at the<br />
legendary Leo’s Casino, where he backed all<br />
of the major Motown acts including Stevie<br />
Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, and many<br />
more.<br />
A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Dave Thomas<br />
is a master of both the piano and organ and<br />
is a gifted educator as well, having worked at<br />
The Cleveland School of the Arts, Cuyahoga<br />
Community College, Cleveland State University,<br />
and Case Western Reserve University.<br />
Thomas was an original member of the R&B<br />
group, “Sweet Thunder” and has also performed<br />
with numerous artists including Dizzy<br />
Gillespie and Grover Washington.<br />
Eddie Baccus Sr.<br />
Quintet: Saturday, July 9th<br />
8:30 pm.<br />
Hammond B-3 master<br />
Eddie Baccus Sr. leads<br />
this quintet featuring Cecil<br />
Rucker-vibes, Billy Artisguitar,<br />
John James-sax and<br />
Perry Williams III-drums.<br />
One of the senior statesmen<br />
of the Cleveland Jazz<br />
Scene, organist Eddie Baccus<br />
Sr. has set the standard locally<br />
since the early 1960’s.<br />
Like the late great Jimmy Smith, Baccus is a<br />
virtuoso on the Hammond B-3, equally adept<br />
at soul, jazz and bebop. In many ways, Eddie<br />
Baccus Sr. has been to the jazz scene what<br />
the late Robert Jr. Lockwood was to the local<br />
blues scene. He has been the bedrock of the<br />
Cleveland jazz scene and his infl uence on fans<br />
and musicians alike has been invaluable.<br />
Ernie Krivda & The Detroit Connection:<br />
Sunday July 10th 7 pm.<br />
CD Release Event! “Blues for Pekar”<br />
In a career that spans almost fi fty years, Ernie<br />
Krivda is acknowledged by his peers and<br />
jazz critics alike, as one of the world’s great<br />
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Born in Cleveland, Krivda began his<br />
music studies at age 6 and attended the Cleveland<br />
Institute of Music. He was mentored by<br />
musicians such as Cannonball Adderly, played<br />
in the Quincy Jones Orchestra and has shared<br />
the stage with some of the greatest names in<br />
jazz. In addition to his prolifi c performing career,<br />
Mr. Krivda is also credited for being one<br />
of the primary architects of the Jazz Studies<br />
Program at Cuyahoga Community College.<br />
In June of this year, Krivda released his<br />
new CD “Blues for Pekar”, on<br />
Capri Records, which is dedicated<br />
to the life and memory of famous<br />
music critic, media personality,<br />
and longtime friend, American<br />
Splendor’s Harvey Pekar..<br />
Join Ernie Krivda for the<br />
offi cial CD Release Event at<br />
Nighttown on July 10th. Featuring<br />
the All-Star Detroit rhythm<br />
section! Claude Black – piano,<br />
Marion Hayden – bass and Ronell<br />
Gonsalves – drums.<br />
Solo Show:<br />
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DonPerrySaxman.com<br />
www.facevaluemusic.com<br />
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Ashtabula Downtown Development Association’s<br />
MULTI-CULTURAL FESTIVAL<br />
A Cultural Sight, Sound and Taste Explosion!<br />
Celebrating life in all its diversity • JULY 9, 20<strong>11</strong> • <strong>11</strong>:00 am (Ethnic Parade) 12:00pm–9:00pm (Festival)<br />
Lance CPL Kevin Cornelius Memorial Park (<strong>North</strong> Park) & Main Ave. (South)<br />
A Non-profi t initiative to promote the diverse ethnic cultures in Ashtabula and its surrounding counties.<br />
Purpose of event<br />
A non-profi t initiative to entertain,<br />
educate and promote the diverse cultures in<br />
Ashtabula and its surrounding counties. Our<br />
diversity is demonstrated in the many ethnic<br />
groups that are represented in Ashtabula and<br />
<strong>North</strong>east Ohio, which is why we believe<br />
so strongly in celebrating the richness of<br />
our unique history and cultures. The Native<br />
American Ojibwa and Lenape Nations, Finnish,<br />
Italian, Hispanic, Asian, Irish, Slovenian,<br />
African, African American, and other ethnic<br />
groups have strong roots in Ashtabula. Many<br />
of Ashtabula County’s Museums including the<br />
Finnish American Museum and The Hubbard<br />
House “Underground Railroad” Museum,<br />
which led many slaves to freedom will be<br />
showcased.<br />
This is Ashtabula County’s Bicentennial<br />
and we want to celebrate this milestone.<br />
Therefore, on July 9, 20<strong>11</strong> we want to recognize<br />
what our community has to offer people<br />
of all races and ethnic backgrounds. The<br />
Ashtabula Multi-Cultural Festival is designed<br />
to do just that. The Festival will begin with<br />
an ethnic parade, including the American<br />
Legion motorcycle riders and Color Guard.<br />
Anyone wishing to celebrate their ethnic heritage<br />
is welcome to participate in the parade.<br />
(Ethnic clothing, costumes or ethnic fl ags are<br />
required). The opening ceremony will include<br />
a dedication to our Veterans. The Festival<br />
will feature a variety of ethnic foods, music,<br />
dancing, entertainment, educational presentations<br />
and special events for children. It will<br />
be free to the public.<br />
The primary sources of funding for the<br />
Festival will be from sponsors as well as vendors,<br />
who will be charged a small fee ($50.00)<br />
if they plan to sell food and/or merchandise.<br />
At this time, the Festival will not receive any<br />
governmental funds. Funds from sponsors<br />
will be used to defray the expense associated<br />
with staging the Festival, such as advertising,<br />
equipment, security and sanitation.<br />
The Ashtabula Downtown Development<br />
Association’s mission is to lead, assist and<br />
support activities that enhance the quality of<br />
life in the downtown community. More information<br />
on the Association, which is a 501c3<br />
nonprofi t organization, can be found at www.<br />
downtownashtabula.com<br />
Event Details<br />
Date: Saturday July 9th<br />
Event times: Parade <strong>11</strong>:00am Festival 12pm<br />
to 9pm<br />
Location: Cornelius Park (<strong>North</strong> park) down<br />
Main Ave South<br />
Parking: Free<br />
Ethnic Representations (potential):<br />
Ojibwa and Lenape Nation Native Americans,<br />
Finnish , Italian, Korean, Dominican<br />
Republic, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Irish, Slovenian,<br />
African, Jamaican, African American,<br />
Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Swedish,<br />
Vietnamese, German, Polish and more.<br />
Entertainment: Ethnic parade with Color<br />
Guard opening ceremony, Three entertainment<br />
stages. Live music, Ethnic dance, Vocalist,<br />
Various Dance groups, Step line, Drum line,<br />
Salsa street party, Country line dance, History<br />
brought to life through walking storytelling,<br />
Unique street performers, Food & Wine tasting,<br />
Travel documentary videos and history<br />
videos, Historic exhibits , Period costumes,<br />
Historic wedding display, Crafting demonstrations,<br />
Interactive dance demonstrations,<br />
Oberlin Circus talent , Games and Children<br />
activities .<br />
Partners/Sponsors: Huntington National<br />
Bank, The Star Beacon Newspaper, The<br />
Gazette Newspaper, The Woman’s Journal,The<br />
Ashtabula Foundation, The Robert S Morrison<br />
Foundation, Grand River Rubber and Plastics,<br />
Lipton Distributing of Ashtabula, Community<br />
First Credit Union, Ashtabula County Nursing<br />
Home, Park Haven Nursing Home, WKKY,<br />
Media One Group, Milennium Inorganic<br />
Chemicals, Ashtabula County Medical Center,<br />
Fargo Machine, Halman Inc., A. Louis<br />
Supply, Kent State University Ashtabula ,<br />
The Medicine Shoppe, Art Center, Ashtabula<br />
Chamber of Commerce, The City of Ashtabula,<br />
The Ashtabula Visitors and Convention<br />
Bureau, Ashtabula County, Ashtabula County<br />
Museums, Ashtabula County Libraries,<br />
Ashtabula County Schools, Ashtabula Historical<br />
Society, Local manufactures, Local small<br />
businesses, and more.<br />
Vendor cost: An excellent income opportunity<br />
for vendors!<br />
Food vendors $50, Merchandise/Service<br />
vendors $50<br />
No charge for vendor space to exhibitors, who<br />
also provide entertainment,<br />
No charge for exhibitors that are not selling a<br />
product or service.<br />
VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED!<br />
JOIN A TEAM AND MAKE A DIFFER-<br />
ENCE. WE NEED YOU! CHANGE BEGINS<br />
WITH US!<br />
Schedule for Multi-Cultural Festival<br />
Subject to change as needed!<br />
Stage 1 (Gazebo):<br />
12:30 to 12:37 – Flavors of India<br />
12:40 to 1:40 – SISU Dancers/Happy Wanderers<br />
1:40 to 1:55 – Lenape Drum performance<br />
2:00 to 2:20 – King Lear Performance<br />
2:30 to 3:00 – Sho-Jo-Ji Japanese Dancers<br />
3:00 to 3:20 – Pamela Irizarry Belly Dancer<br />
3:20 to 3:35 – Lenape Drum Performance<br />
4:30 to 5:00 – Flash Mob sing along Stage 2<br />
5:30 to 5:45 – Lenape Drum Performance<br />
5:50 to 6:00 – Dance Performance<br />
8:00 to 9:00 – Iron Dragon Martial Arts Performance<br />
Stage 2 (in front of Municipal Building):<br />
12:30 to 12:50 - After School Discovery Steel Drums<br />
12:50 to 1:00 – Dance Performance<br />
1:00 to 2:00 – Reggae Band<br />
2:00 to 3:00 - Blues Project<br />
3:00 to 3:30 – Ashtabula Arts Center<br />
3:30 to 3:50 – King Lear Performance<br />
4:00 to 4:30 – Amanda Caron Belly Dancer<br />
4:30 to 5:00 – Flash mob sing along<br />
5:00 to 6:00 – Country Line Dance Party<br />
6:00 to 7:00 – Honky Tonky<br />
7:00 to 8:00 – Salsa Dance Party<br />
8:00 to 9:00 – Luau Fire DancersStage 3 (By Head Start):<br />
12:30 to 1:30 – Lincoln Storytelling/Q & A<br />
2:00 to 2:30 – Taino Indians Drum Performance<br />
2:50 to 3:00 – King Lear Swordfi ght<br />
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HYMN FOR HER will bring their<br />
blazing live show to The Barking Spider<br />
on Sunday, July 17th at 9:00 P.M. Kristen<br />
Graves & Tom Evanchuck will open.<br />
Lucy Tight & Wayne Waxing are<br />
HYMN FOR HER, a rockin’ duo that hails<br />
from anywhere<br />
they can park 16<br />
foot, 1961 vintage<br />
Bambi Airstream<br />
(comes<br />
with dog and<br />
baby) as they<br />
tour the U.S.<br />
coast to coast.<br />
Both players<br />
are multi-instrumentalists<br />
and<br />
one tight unit.<br />
They describe<br />
their music as<br />
“stomp-grass<br />
punk folk with<br />
a hint of Americana.” Lucy plays a threestringed<br />
broom handle/cigar box guitar,<br />
Sat. July 9<br />
Wagon Wheel<br />
Outdoor Patio<br />
Madison<br />
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banjo and sometimes even a glockenspiel<br />
as she shares vocal duties with Wayne, who<br />
also plays acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, and/<br />
or harmonica all while handling percussion<br />
on bass drum and hi-hat! Bullet microphones<br />
and an arsenal of effect<br />
pedals give this band a<br />
sound like no other. The<br />
show is enhanced by a<br />
slide show of original<br />
photos projected on<br />
an old-fashioned slide<br />
projector. Where ever<br />
they play, this band wins<br />
over the audience with<br />
their amazing live show<br />
that sometimes might<br />
include a Led Zeppelin<br />
or other classic tune<br />
given the Hymn For Her<br />
twist!<br />
Hymn For Her’s<br />
latest release, LUCY &<br />
WAYNE and THE AMAIRICAN STREAM,<br />
was recorded in the Airstream and mixed by<br />
Jim Diamond (White Stripes). The CD and the<br />
duo have been receiving rave reviews in the<br />
press, including Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh<br />
Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,<br />
Lexington Herald-Leader, Asheville Citizen<br />
Times, The Albuquerque Journal and more!<br />
The Orlando Weekly says, “Their amalgam of<br />
folk, blues and bluegrass ain’t no easygoing<br />
sweet-tea affair. It’s an intensely haunting, alternative<br />
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end of 20<strong>11</strong>, while they continue to write new<br />
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and<br />
Museum is pleased to announce that an additional<br />
show has beenadded to Summer in the<br />
City, a FREE live concert series this summer<br />
at the Rock Hall featuring the country’s most<br />
buzzed-about bands. Murder by Death will<br />
perform with opening act the Buried Wires<br />
on Wednesday, August 17th on the Museum<br />
plaza (weather permitting, if necessary it will<br />
be moved inside to the Main Stage). Summer<br />
in the City is sponsored by Ohio Natural<br />
Gas, Magic Hat Brewing Company, Amtrak,<br />
KeyBank and Jim Beam.<br />
JULY 6 – 7 p.m.<br />
Fitz and the Tantrums with Clovers<br />
· Fitz and the Tantrums are a neo-soul group<br />
that originated in Los Angeles, California.<br />
After he purchased an old church organ, singer<br />
Michael Fitzpatrick began to collaborate<br />
with long-time friend and saxophonist James<br />
King, who connected immediately with his<br />
sound. The two began to challenge themselves,<br />
as they attempted to create a big band<br />
sound without the use of guitars. The group<br />
expanded as they added members John Wicks<br />
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(drums), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards), and<br />
Joseph Karnes (bass). Noelle Scaggs was also<br />
added to the lineup to share the vocal duties<br />
with Fitz. The group released their fi rst EP,<br />
Songs for a Breakup, <strong>Vol</strong>. 1, in 2009 and followed<br />
that up in 2010 their fi rst CD, Pickin’<br />
Up the Pieces. Pickin’ Up the Pieces has<br />
received much positive attention and reached<br />
the Number 2 position on the Billboard’s Top<br />
Heatseekers chart. The group has toured with<br />
several popular music acts, such as Maroon 5<br />
and April Smith, and has performed on Jimmy<br />
Kimmel Live, Conan, and the Tonight Show<br />
with Jay Leno.<br />
· It’s only been a few years since Cleveland<br />
rock and roll band Clovers started making<br />
music and taking their sound all through<br />
Cleveland and beyond. The four person lineup<br />
features Antoine Henderson (bass), Jonah<br />
Oryszak and Gabe Fulvimar (guitar, vocals),<br />
and Gregory Lee Boyd (drums). Describing<br />
their sound to the Plain Dealer, Boyd has<br />
called Clovers “straightforward rock ‘n’ roll<br />
[with] a pop infl uence, of course. The group<br />
has toured with many popular music acts such<br />
as Foreign Born and Free Energy, and will be<br />
performing for the fi rst time with Fitz and the<br />
Tantrums.<br />
JULY 13 – 7 p.m.<br />
Das Racist with Smoke Screen and Muamin<br />
Collective<br />
· Spin magazine picked Das Racist as one<br />
of 50 acts to watch at the 2010 SXSW Music<br />
Festival, and in April 2010, MTV Iggy selected<br />
them as one of the “25 Best New Bands<br />
in the World.” The rap group had its beginning<br />
in Middletown, Connecticut when Himanshu<br />
Suri met Victor Vazquez at Wesleyan University.<br />
Das Racist’s unique style commanded<br />
attention with their fi rst album, the Shut Up,<br />
Dude mixtape, released as a free download in<br />
March 2010. The mix tape received positive<br />
reviews, and was described as “a fascinating<br />
album that attempts to write an impossibly<br />
new blueprint for rap” by Pitchfork. Six<br />
months later, Das Racist released their second<br />
mix tape Sit Down, Man, receiving even<br />
better reviews and earning high marks again<br />
from Spin and Pitchfork. The mix tape was<br />
downloaded more than 40,000 times in the<br />
fi rst week. Guests on Sit Down, Man included<br />
El-P, Despot, Vijay Iyer, and Chairlift with<br />
production from Diplo, Dame Grease, Devo<br />
Springsteen, Sabzi (of Blue Scholars and<br />
Common Market) and Boi-1da.<br />
· Known for their originality and relentless<br />
creativity, Smoke Screen released their fi rst<br />
album Self Educated Learning Process with<br />
no outside appearances or production, earning<br />
them a nomination in the 2008 Ohio Hip Hop<br />
Awards for Best New Group of the Year. Later<br />
that year, the group teamed up with Kings<br />
Ransom Clothing to support them for the<br />
release of their fi rst mix tape Punch-Drunk<br />
Melodies. Since 2007, they have performed all<br />
over Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and<br />
Michigan promoting their releases, including<br />
performing as a cover band for Kid Cudi, Flobots,<br />
Kids in the Hall, Rapper Big Pooh, Mac<br />
Miller and more. Their most recent release,<br />
Punch-Drunk Melodies <strong>Vol</strong>. 2, was released in<br />
spring of 2009.<br />
· Muamin Collective is a Cleveland-based<br />
hip-hop group that has been performing for<br />
nearly 15 y ears. The group is made up by<br />
the duo Aaron “aLIVE” Snorton and Josiah<br />
“ZiON” Quarles. They have shared the stage<br />
with a diverse group of artists who perform<br />
every variety of music from R&B to punk<br />
rock, even performing with classic hip-hop<br />
acts, including De La Soul, Pete Rock, and the<br />
Coup. As of late date, Muamin Collective has<br />
released three LPs: Industry Standard in 2006,<br />
wHereMYpeoPLes@?! in 2007, and World B.<br />
Free in 2009.<br />
AUGUST 3 – 7 p.m.<br />
The Joy Formidable with HotChaCha<br />
After years of dreaming of making it big in the<br />
music industry, Wales’s natives Ritzy Bryan<br />
(vocals, guitar) and Rhydian Dafydd (bass,<br />
vocals) formed the band the Joy Formidable,<br />
whose sound Bryan has described as “choral<br />
and symphonic, mixed with what both of us<br />
had already enjoyed separately: dirty, loud,<br />
rhythmic guitars and thick bass lines.” The<br />
band released Austere in July 2008, followed<br />
by Cradle on double 7” later that summer,<br />
and quickly produced an eight-track EP, A<br />
Balloon Called Moaning, which they released<br />
themselves in the U.K. in early 2009. Having<br />
relocated to London and recruited drummer<br />
Matthew Thomas, the trio quickly earned a<br />
reputation for blistering live performances,<br />
and were one of the most talked about bands<br />
at SXSW this year.<br />
HotChaCha is an experimental art punk<br />
band from Cleveland, Ohio. The group was<br />
started in 2007 by Jovana Batkovic (vocals)<br />
and Mandy Aramouni (guitar/keyboard). The<br />
duo later brought along Lisa Paulovcin to<br />
play drums, and after playing their fi rst show,<br />
bassist Heather Gmucs joined the band soon<br />
thereafter. HotChaCha released their fi rst<br />
EP, Rifl e, I Knew You When You Were Just<br />
a Pistol, in 2008, and went on to perform at<br />
major music festivals, including the MidPoint<br />
Music Festival in Cincinnati and the CMJ<br />
Music Marathon in New York. The group has<br />
since gained much critical attention, and was<br />
named a Band to Watch by Scene Magazine in<br />
2009. Shortly before the release of their fi rst<br />
full-length album, the World’s Hardest Working<br />
Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars,<br />
Paulovcin was replaced on drums by Roseanna<br />
Safos and while recording Fantastic Static,<br />
their second EP, the group began touring with<br />
We are Hex from Indianapolis, with whom<br />
they released a split cassette titled Naturally<br />
Proper. HotChaCha’s fi rst male member, Greg<br />
Gebhard joined the band on bass in place of<br />
Gmucs, and the group continues to tour –very<br />
fashionably -- across the country.<br />
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By Helen Marketti<br />
Band member Songbird is grateful to have had life experiences that have shaped who she<br />
is, where she is and how Jane Dough is evolving.<br />
Looking back over the days of rock<br />
and roll that heated the airwaves of the late<br />
60s and early 70s, we can fi nd Cleveland<br />
area band, Jane Dough appreciating those<br />
earlier days mixed in with their own creative<br />
originality to help defi ne their sound and<br />
still keep things fresh.<br />
Band members include Songbird (vocals,<br />
guitar), Brendan Gilberti (guitar/background<br />
vocals), Mike Pella (bass/backing vocals)<br />
and Ernie Richmann IV (drums, percussion).<br />
“Jane Dough has had a lot of members<br />
in the fi ve years since the band was founded<br />
by Brendan Gilberti, myself and former<br />
hand percussionist Byron delPinal,” said<br />
Songbird. “Each member that has been part<br />
of the band has brought their own unique<br />
contributions to the band with the common<br />
thread being Brendan and I. We started out<br />
as an “acoustic mayhem” band with no kit<br />
drummer and often times, no bassist. It<br />
wasn’t until we picked up former kit drummer,<br />
Andy Reichert and former bassist Chris<br />
Tangent that we went electric and really<br />
started to develop the sound that we are<br />
known for today.”<br />
“The great thing about playing with the<br />
same guys for a long time is that I know<br />
their playing styles and can write to the<br />
strength of the band as a hole. I write compositions<br />
with the full band in mind and require<br />
them to somehow telepathically know<br />
exactly how to play the song as it sounds in<br />
my head. Believe it or not, they yell at me<br />
a lot, but somehow it cosmically happens.<br />
They are the real miracle workers.”<br />
The band’s name, Jane Dough actually<br />
came from a phrase that Songbird wrote in<br />
one of her songs. “I wrote a song called,<br />
Freeway Rider after I moved to Cleveland.<br />
It was an “answer song” to Stephen Stills<br />
Treetop Flyer. I decided to write from a<br />
female road smuggler’s perspective. One of<br />
the lines in the song is, “My name is Jane<br />
Dough and I’m the real deal, I’m a highway<br />
smuggler and I’ve got nerves of steel.” That<br />
song will be on our upcoming album. So,<br />
we were thinking of a band name and just<br />
about any band name you could think of<br />
has already been taken. One day, Brendan<br />
said, “What about Jane Dough?” I thought it<br />
was kind of cool but didn’t want to impose<br />
a female name on a mostly male band but<br />
everyone liked it.”<br />
Songbird has had musical infl uences ever<br />
since childhood. “I grew up in a bubble of<br />
sorts,” she recalls. “My dad worked for the<br />
government and we moved every year or so.<br />
When I was younger, I listened to the rock and<br />
roll radio stations and the only other constant<br />
I had was my dad’s record collection. He had<br />
an original pressing of John Lennon’s Imagine<br />
that had the original poster with it. He also had<br />
an original pressing of George Harrison’s All<br />
Things Must Pass, which had a poster with<br />
it as well. My dad had Bob Dylan’s Greatest<br />
Hits, 1 and 2. As you can see, my dad had<br />
some great records so I grew up with quite an<br />
assortment. He would let me put his records<br />
on the turntable. I listened to a lot of John<br />
Lennon and Bob Dylan. I have also loved folk,<br />
bluegrass and the 60s. After rock and roll lost<br />
its roll, then I think that’s when it lost its soul.<br />
It became digital, technical and very sterilized<br />
which made me lose interest. People wonder<br />
how I can be so into the 60s when I wasn’t<br />
even around for it but I just feel that it’s the<br />
right path for me.”<br />
The seeds were planted very early on for<br />
Songbird to follow music as a career path. “I<br />
remember taking out those black and white<br />
posters from my dad’s collection and just<br />
staring at them. There was something timeless<br />
and meaningful to me when I would look at<br />
the posters of John Lennon and Bob Dylan. I<br />
really didn’t realize it then what it would mean<br />
later but I remember there was something<br />
special about it.”<br />
Playing guitar was not Songbird’s fi rst<br />
instrument of choice. “One of my earliest<br />
memories is going to the kitchen, setting up<br />
the pots and pans and creating my own drum<br />
kit. My parents were amazingly tolerant! In<br />
fi fth grade, I joined the school band as a drummer<br />
and did that for a few years.”<br />
Songbird continues, “I had played hand<br />
drums, too. I started playing guitar around<br />
the time I was 19. I actually have considered<br />
myself more of a hand drum player than a<br />
guitar player. I’ve been playing guitar now for<br />
about 15 years.”<br />
“Brendan has brought me light years in<br />
my knowledge and understanding of playing<br />
the guitar, particularly in the rock and roll<br />
style,” explains Songbird. “I’ve always been<br />
dedicated to learning the guitar on a daily<br />
and continual basis and had been playing for<br />
several years before we had met. I felt I had<br />
reached a plateau in my knowledge and only<br />
had played acoustic guitar at the time. Playing<br />
with Brendan, I have been able to expand my<br />
horizons as a player a thousand fold. He is an<br />
amazingly gifted player and I am very lucky<br />
to have him to grow with as a musician on a<br />
daily basis.”<br />
Songbird’s life experiences have brought<br />
about<br />
an acute awareness<br />
of people, places and lessons<br />
along the journey. “My parents weren’t<br />
hippies but we did live a bohemian kind of<br />
life style with many years of traveling and<br />
moving. I actually left home at an early age,<br />
which was a very unique situation. We lived a<br />
vagrant, gypsy-like life style because of it. We<br />
moved to a town that I didn’t like and I was<br />
hoping we would move as we always did but<br />
this time my parents said that we were going<br />
to be staying awhile. So, I decided that I was<br />
going to leave and that’s just what I did! I<br />
was 15 years old at the time. I dropped out of<br />
school and went on the road with The Grateful<br />
Dead!”<br />
“It was an incredible experience and it was<br />
amazing that my parents even allowed it,” said<br />
Songbird. “There were hundreds of people<br />
that traveled with The Grateful Dead. It was<br />
like a small city. I have met several members<br />
of The Grateful Dead but they didn’t necessarily<br />
meet or interact with all of the people<br />
who followed them on the road. There was<br />
an entire infrastructure to their shows. There<br />
were cars, school buses, different ethnicities<br />
of food and clothing. It was a traveling commune.<br />
It was a portal that carried over from<br />
the 60s. I believe it paved the way for how I<br />
am now. We went everywhere the band went,<br />
depending on where the tour was going. It’s<br />
funny though, I never really considered myself<br />
a “Dead Head”. I loved the experience and<br />
enjoyed the music. Many people were around<br />
because of the surrounding scene that went<br />
with it. I was more interested in the band’s<br />
synergy. I enjoyed Jerry Garcia’s singing and<br />
guitar playing. I liked Robert Hunter’s song<br />
writing. The songs were so descriptive; they<br />
were like a painting. Jerry was a master at<br />
bringing this to life.”<br />
She continues, “To get into their shows<br />
was like a barter system. I was good at crafts<br />
so I made macramé projects and hair wraps.<br />
People would make jewelry and clothes.<br />
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BREWIN’ THE BREW<br />
On October 15, beer enthusiasts will<br />
have a new reason to celebrate. Otto, a new<br />
Belgian-style, bottle conditioned dubbel ale<br />
from Victory Brewing Company, will be<br />
available<br />
in 750 ml<br />
corked<br />
bottles.<br />
Bill<br />
Covaleski<br />
and Ron<br />
Barchet,<br />
Victory cofounders,<br />
developed<br />
the recipe<br />
for the new<br />
smoked<br />
malt dubbel based on their experience with<br />
the style during a trip they took to Bamberg,<br />
Germany in 1987. In order to create a deliciously<br />
palatable smoked beer, Bill and Ron<br />
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qualities of the smoky rauch style<br />
with Belgian caramel malt, which yields a<br />
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“The complimentary fl avors of smoked<br />
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Otto is made up of smoked, Munich<br />
and Belgian caramel mat, German<br />
hops and Trappist yeast. Alcohol by<br />
volume is 8.1%.<br />
Victory Brewing Company is a<br />
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Started<br />
by Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet,<br />
childhood friends who met on a school<br />
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began operations in February of 1996.<br />
Now, Victory beers can be found in 29<br />
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Sat. July 2nd<br />
Fairport Harding High<br />
Alumni Dance<br />
Fairport Senior Citizen Center<br />
7:00 - <strong>11</strong>:00PM<br />
Sun. July 3rd<br />
Debonne Vineyards<br />
Madison 2:30 - 5:30PM<br />
Sat. July 9th<br />
Harbortown Bar & Grill<br />
Fairport 9:00PM - 1:00AM<br />
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Life and Limb 2: Sierra Nevada, Dogfi sh<br />
Head collaboration to return this year<br />
A few details on the Life and Limb<br />
2 collaboration between Sierra Nevada<br />
Brewing and Dogfi sh Head…<br />
The fi rst collaboration took place during<br />
the hot summer of<br />
2009. There was a<br />
ton of buzz around<br />
the original project<br />
with many stores<br />
(most? all?) getting<br />
only one case if any.<br />
The 20<strong>11</strong> collaboration<br />
took<br />
place around May<br />
2nd and, this time,<br />
they’re doing it<br />
bigger. First, the<br />
obligatory label<br />
stuff…<br />
Front label:<br />
LIFE – this living ale is naturally carbonated<br />
to enhance complexity, refi nement, and to<br />
encourage aging<br />
LIMB – for the birch and maple trees, whose<br />
syrup gives this ale its unique fl avor and<br />
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fans as “The Big Man” of E Street Band<br />
fame, passed away on Saturday, June 18, at<br />
the age of sixty-nine, from complications of<br />
a stroke he had suffered earlier in the week.<br />
Clemons’ infl uence on sax players in the realm<br />
of rhythm and blues is unquestionable. As a<br />
member of the E Street Band, Clemons’ horn<br />
was an integral part of Springsteen’s music,<br />
adding a bit of soul and the grit of urban blues<br />
to the singer’s street-smart lyrics. The saxophone,<br />
a mainstay of 1950s-era rock ‘n’ roll,<br />
had been largely ignored by the genre until<br />
Clemons came along in the mid-1970s, adapting<br />
his King Curtis-infl uenced R&B sound to<br />
a rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack and radically changing<br />
the role of the instrument in rock.<br />
It was a testament to his talents that<br />
Clemons was equally capable of enhancing<br />
just about any style of music with his brilliant<br />
instrumentation. Besides the more than a<br />
dozen albums he recorded over 40 years with<br />
Springsteen, Clemons also played on recordings<br />
by artists as diverse as R&B legends<br />
Aretha Franklin and Gary “U.S.” Bonds, Italian<br />
blues-rock guitarist Zucchero (with whom<br />
he made fi ve albums), rockers Ian Hunter and<br />
Little Steven, and such seemingly odd pairings<br />
as Twisted Sister and, most recently, Lady<br />
Gaga.<br />
Clemons also enjoyed a lengthy solo<br />
career, issuing four albums and scoring a 1985<br />
hit in his duet with Jackson Browne, “You’re<br />
A Friend Of Mine.” During the last decade,<br />
Clemons teamed up with longtime friends<br />
Narada Michael Walden and T.M. Stevens as<br />
Temple of Soul, the band releasing its Brothers<br />
In Arms album in 2008.<br />
Issuing a statement on his website,<br />
Bruce Springsteen said, “we are honored<br />
and thankful to have known him and had the<br />
opportunity to stand beside him for nearly 40<br />
years. He was my great friend, my partner<br />
and with Clarence at my side, my band and I<br />
were able to<br />
tell a story far<br />
deeper than<br />
those simply<br />
contained in<br />
our music.<br />
His life, his<br />
memory, and<br />
his love will<br />
live on in that<br />
story and in<br />
our band.”<br />
Gil<br />
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a pioneering<br />
talent in the<br />
fi elds of R&B<br />
and jazz music,<br />
and considered by many to be the “Godfather<br />
of Rap,” died on Friday, May 27, 20<strong>11</strong>. Scott-<br />
Heron had recently returned home to New<br />
York City after a brief European trip and was<br />
taken ill, passing away at St. Luke’s Hospital.<br />
While not a blues musician in the strictest<br />
of terms, Scott-Heron’s infl uence on all<br />
facets of African-American creative expression<br />
cannot be downplayed. A poet by nature,<br />
infl uenced by the literary works of the Harlem<br />
Renaissance, especially those of LeRoi Jones<br />
and Langston Hughes, Scott-Heron came<br />
of age artistically during the tumultuous<br />
1960s, which played heavily in informing his<br />
socially-conscious poems and lyrics. Scott-<br />
Heron released his debut album, Small Talk<br />
at 125th and Lenox in 1970 for the Flying<br />
Dutchman label, a small indie focused mostly<br />
on jazz. Accompanied only by a percussionist,<br />
Scott-Heron fused the talking blues tradition<br />
with a jazz vibe and soul attitude to creative<br />
an entirely new and unique art form.<br />
The album included one of Scott-Heron’s<br />
most notorious songs, “The Revolution<br />
Will Not Be Televised,” a spoken word rant<br />
against the media and inner city poverty. The<br />
album would create a blueprint for much of<br />
Scott-Heron’s later work, his songs refl ecting<br />
controversial subject matter such as racism,<br />
apartheid, poverty, drug abuse, and social<br />
injustice. Scott-Heron would revise “Revolution”<br />
again on 1971’s Pieces Of A Man album,<br />
which expanded his sound with the help of<br />
jazz talents like Ron Carter, Hubert Law, and<br />
long-time collaborator Brian Jackson.<br />
vScott-Heron spent much of the 1980s<br />
and ‘90s out of the spotlight, touring sporadically,<br />
mostly in Europe. During this period,<br />
his music and lyrical style became a major<br />
infl uence on rap and hip-hop music, inspiring<br />
artists as diverse as Public Enemy, Common,<br />
and Eminem as well as producer Dr. Dre.<br />
Scott-Heron returned to the studio to record<br />
1994’s Spirits, which included his song “Message<br />
for the Messengers,” which asked for<br />
rappers to become more socially conscious<br />
with their lyrics. Battling drug addiction for<br />
years, and spending much of the early 2000s<br />
in prison, Scott-Heron released his fi rst album<br />
in sixteen years in 2010. The release, I’m New<br />
Here, garnered universal critical acclaim.<br />
Although Scott-Heron often eschewed<br />
the “Godfather of Rap” tag, his infl uence on<br />
rap, as well as modern soul music, is undeniable.<br />
In the end, Scott-Heron called his heady<br />
brew of blues, jazz, and soul simply “bluesology”<br />
- a fi tting epitaph for the pioneering<br />
writer and performer.<br />
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students of the University of Technology of<br />
Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), and the students’<br />
federation called COM’ET, gave its full<br />
support and stamp of approval - where today,<br />
the festival employs a substantial budget of<br />
600,000 euros (nearly one million dollars)<br />
with which to throw its annual party on the<br />
streets, as well as in other venues within the<br />
confi nes of the city center.<br />
The entire town becomes the stage for<br />
different musical genres; and each year,<br />
the festival throws a spotlight on a unique<br />
instrument. This time, in the classical fi eld,<br />
F.I.M.U. gave special attention to the bassoon.<br />
“A woodwind instrument, the bassoon<br />
appeared in the late 18th century in Italy<br />
where it was called ‘fagotto’. From the oboe’s<br />
family, the bassoon is formed from a long<br />
pipe often made of maple of around 3 meters,<br />
folded upon itself, which the musician holds<br />
diagonally in front him or her, the end at the<br />
top. The bassoon is<br />
typically used to play<br />
music written in the<br />
bass and tenor registers,<br />
and occasionally<br />
higher”.<br />
And there were<br />
two conferences<br />
convened completely<br />
dedicated to this<br />
instrument:<br />
Origins, history and<br />
repertoire of the bassoon<br />
was presented by Jean-Chantal Hoebeke,<br />
Director of Instrumental Ensemble of Belfort.<br />
The reed throughout the ages: from the<br />
weaving loom to the instrument, was presented<br />
by Jean-Marie Heinrich, researcher at the<br />
Pierre et Marie Curie’s University of Paris.<br />
In past incarnations of F.I.M.U., inquiry<br />
was given to other important Old World instruments<br />
such as the accordion, harp, and tuba.<br />
But each year, the festival gives to all ages and<br />
cultural backgrounds plenty of opportunity to<br />
encounter Musiques Actuelle (rock) to Jazz to<br />
Musiques Nouvelles (new music) or Musiques<br />
du Monde (world music) .... this time, featuring<br />
ensembles from Cameroon, the Democratic<br />
Republic of the Congo, China, Ecuador,<br />
Mali and Morocco, just to name a few.<br />
And as far as our musical ambassador<br />
from America is concerned, Austin Walkin’<br />
Cane had this to say: “F.I.M.U. will always<br />
hold a special place in my heart. In my two<br />
decades of performing music professionally,<br />
F.I.M.U. was the fi rst of my overseas’ gigs.<br />
I had never truly felt rewarded for being a<br />
musician until those performances in 2009,<br />
and now again this year. The experience of<br />
absorbing the diverse musical cultures can<br />
never be captured in words. The immense impact<br />
can only live in my heart, and be forever<br />
heard through the music. It was amazing!<br />
The quality of the music was excellent, and<br />
my ‘pilote’, the best”.<br />
This is another organizing principle<br />
of great import as each and every group is<br />
assigned a pilot to help navigate the festival<br />
experience. Indeed, in my ten years of traveling<br />
to this old town, making my yearly music<br />
Mecca, I can attest to its vitality. F.I.M.U.<br />
covers all the angles in their quest to bring the<br />
best their budget will permit. Personally, the<br />
stand-out act this time was the seven-piece ensemble<br />
called La Sanza, led by Eddy Mboyo.<br />
Hailing from the Democratic Republic of the<br />
Congo, they brought to Belfort their joyous<br />
compositions sung in the languages of Luba,<br />
Mongo and Swahili.<br />
But if we can call music the “international”<br />
language, understood by all, then F.I.M.U.<br />
is a United Nations of sorts - a place and time<br />
of year where cultures of the world commingle,<br />
and our common humanity honored.<br />
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Music Therapy Makes a Difference<br />
By Dr. Julie Trudeau<br />
Music Therapy is an established healthcare<br />
profession that uses music to address<br />
physical, emotional, cognitive, and social<br />
needs of individuals of all ages. Music therapy<br />
improves the quality of life for persons<br />
who are well and meets the needs of children<br />
and adults with disabilities or illnesses.<br />
Music therapy interventions can be designed<br />
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• promote wellness<br />
• manage stress<br />
• alleviate pain<br />
• express feelings<br />
• enhance memory<br />
• improve communication<br />
• promote physical<br />
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Music therapy<br />
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Music, beautiful music that haunts our<br />
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By Luthier Patrick Podpadec<br />
I have been fi nishing up a lot of loose<br />
ends in the shop lately, trying to get ready<br />
to go on a short vacation. My wife, son and<br />
I are going on a “camping expedition” . (It<br />
sounds better than just going camping)We<br />
own a small older camper and enjoy all of that<br />
outdoor stuff so we thought fi shing, swimming<br />
,bike riding and eating outdoors would<br />
be a good way to start out my son’s summer<br />
vacation.<br />
There are more projects in the works<br />
that will be patiently waiting for me when I<br />
return. Last week I spent some time cutting<br />
up and dimensioning wood that I have been<br />
collecting over the years to build guitars with.<br />
In the collection is some beautiful fl amed<br />
Koa wood that I almost forgot about having.<br />
There is enough for one full size guitar and a<br />
couple of ukuleles. I also came across some<br />
real nice Bubinga (a nice red tone with some<br />
fi ne “ribbon” look to it) and there is a very<br />
limited amount of Brazilian Rosewood that<br />
could be used for a very special project too.<br />
Along with the many repairs that I am doing I<br />
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still am desperately trying to build some new<br />
instruments.<br />
It always amazes me, when talking to<br />
clients or<br />
friends that<br />
bring their<br />
instruments<br />
in to get<br />
repaired, that<br />
the conversation<br />
usually<br />
turns to how<br />
many guitars<br />
people own.<br />
In all of the<br />
time that I<br />
have been<br />
repairing<br />
instruments<br />
(over 25<br />
yrs or so) I<br />
have only<br />
encountered 2-3 people that own only one<br />
instrument. Most of the time people who are<br />
avid players have at least three guitars and<br />
many times more than that. I personally own<br />
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over 25 or more instruments. I own 2 cellos, a<br />
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zither, an autoharp, a couple of electric basses<br />
and an acoustic<br />
bass, ukuleles,<br />
and a whole<br />
%&#load of<br />
guitars. I also<br />
own more used<br />
parts for guitars<br />
than you can<br />
shake a stick at.<br />
Please keep<br />
in mind that<br />
over half of my<br />
instruments<br />
need some sort<br />
of repair, but<br />
just the same,<br />
over the years I<br />
have been able<br />
to snag a few<br />
gems along the way.<br />
I’m not sure if you could categorize<br />
me as having some sort of “condition” but I<br />
know that I’m not alone in this obsession that<br />
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I have. Not only do I own a lot of instruments,<br />
I fi nd myself always wanting to talk<br />
about, see, and buy more all the time. I don’t<br />
ever let this “condition” get in the way of my<br />
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centers and libraries and displays them<br />
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are played and so on. He lets people play them<br />
too. What a cool idea!<br />
My point in all of this is that I would<br />
like to invite any readers of the NC <strong>Voice</strong><br />
or any friends of readers of the NC <strong>Voice</strong> to<br />
contact me at pat@wood-n-strings.net with<br />
pictures and stories of your instrument collections<br />
so that I can feature them in the upcoming<br />
articles in the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Voice</strong>. I know<br />
of a few very good collections already and am<br />
just waiting for photos to come in before I can<br />
display them. The story behind the instrument<br />
is often many times more interesting than the<br />
piece itself, so please make sure that you tell<br />
me about how you were able to acquire the<br />
instruments too. I would even be willing to<br />
come and see or take pictures of some collections<br />
if writing about them is not your thing.<br />
I’m constantly coming across very cool<br />
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I feel it would be a shame not to tell people<br />
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everybody looking we might fi nd that long<br />
lost Stradivarius in the attic. So get out all<br />
your instruments and dust them off and get<br />
them ready for show and tell. I’ll be waiting to<br />
hear from you.<br />
Thanks Again!<br />
Patrick from Wood-n-Strings/ Liam Guitars
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Everything was so colorful and beautiful. I did<br />
this for about four years and then decided to<br />
stop touring with The Grateful Dead and settle<br />
down. Well, after living the way I did for so<br />
long, it was very hard for me to settle down.”<br />
“I started going to music festivals a couple<br />
times a year,” said Songbird. “I lived in<br />
California for awhile and came back to Ohio<br />
during the 90s. I started going to bluegrass festivals,<br />
studying the folk scene and the roots of<br />
it all. I started a little bluegrass acoustic band<br />
for a while. I had dread locks, which were<br />
down to my knees, and you don’t see that too<br />
much in the bluegrass circuit. (laughs) I was<br />
blessed to be hanging out with some pretty<br />
amazing musicians like Jack Casady, Jorma<br />
Kaukonen and more!”<br />
Names in the music industry can often<br />
carry the way people think of you and your<br />
music. Songbird is a name that is quite appropriate<br />
for her style. It is a unique story of how<br />
this name was given to her. “I always felt that<br />
whatever I was taught in school, I could learn<br />
about those same things in a book or better<br />
yet, I could go to these places and experience<br />
them for myself. When I was about 15, I was<br />
at the Rainbow gathering, which is like a big,<br />
traveling commune in the woods of national<br />
parks and forests all over the country and all<br />
over the world. This type of thing has been<br />
going on since the late 60s and early 70s,” explains<br />
Songbird. “We were having a ceremony<br />
one evening. There was a girl playing guitar<br />
and I was singing. Everyone was gathered<br />
around the campfi re. Well, within the Rainbow<br />
Tribe, there are people who are known as<br />
“the elders” who have been part of the group<br />
since the early beginnings. At some point in<br />
the evening, everything came to a stop and<br />
one of the elder’s said, “I am going to name<br />
you Songbird. We’ll have a ceremony and that<br />
will be your name.” A lot of these people who<br />
were around at the time continued on with The<br />
Grateful Dead tours and still called me Songbird<br />
and it has basically been my name ever<br />
since. My real name is actually Bessie Young<br />
and I am thinking about going back to using it.<br />
I think my real name still represents my music<br />
and who I am even though I have been known<br />
as Songbird for a very long time.”<br />
Experiences from traveling the road at such<br />
a young age have shaped how Songbird views<br />
life and music. “It’s given me an even richer<br />
perspective as a person, as a musician and as a<br />
songwriter. These experiences have given me<br />
a Woody Guthrie-like experience,” she said.<br />
“When you are traveling from place to place<br />
you are basically homeless unless you have<br />
money for hotels or can crash at someone’s<br />
house. I could not wrap my head around a<br />
framework existence where you get up the<br />
same time every morning, eat the same food<br />
and then go to the same job every day. After<br />
living the way I did, that seemed so foreign to<br />
me. I would go downtown to the tourist-like<br />
area of cities that we traveled to and talk to<br />
some of the homeless people. Many of them<br />
were Vietnam Vets. I used to have a long Mohawk<br />
hairstyle that was different colors. I was<br />
between punk rocker and hippie. I didn’t care<br />
what I looked like back then. I would hang<br />
out with the homeless people and panhandle<br />
with them. They would tell me these amazing<br />
stories, which I thought, were so cool. Most<br />
of the time, people would just walk right past<br />
them. As I said, many of them were Vietnam<br />
Vets and they were like me in a sense that they<br />
could not integrate themselves back into a box<br />
of daily life after they had gone through the<br />
atrocities of war. There was no way they could<br />
just go back to a nine - fi ve job even if they<br />
had wives and families so many of them took<br />
to the road.”<br />
Inspirations for song writing can come<br />
from anywhere for Songbird. “A lot of my<br />
songs are based on my traveling experiences.<br />
I took a sabbatical from social media for a<br />
while and decided to turn inward and refl ect<br />
on where I had been. It was like going into the<br />
wilderness and having nothing but paper and<br />
pen. I was thinking about all sorts of different<br />
things and writing songs. I fi lled a couple of<br />
notebooks. I wrote a song about a homeless<br />
guy I knew whose name was Shorty. He was<br />
such a character! I met him in New Orleans.<br />
Shorty took me under his wing, so to speak. I<br />
used to hop trains with him. He taught me how<br />
to survive on the road without getting hurt or<br />
getting into trouble.”<br />
“I write most of our music for Jane<br />
Dough,” said Songbird. “I would call it rock<br />
and roll. I really don’t like to have names and<br />
genres because then it all becomes compartmentalized.<br />
Record companies have kept<br />
things sterilized with cliché lyrics. There<br />
doesn’t seem to be anything raw or human any<br />
more about music. Many record companies<br />
are not doing well because music has become<br />
background wallpaper.”<br />
“I do not consider myself a “solo songwriter”,<br />
but rather as a wildly uninhibited<br />
sonic painter of colorful psychedelic musical<br />
portraits, surrealistically painted in the grand<br />
rock and roll tradition of the late 60s and<br />
early 70s. I feel that playing with Jane Dough<br />
has tremendously developed my skills as a<br />
songwriter, composer and musician which all<br />
function as part of a larger whole. I think I<br />
sing more like a guy than a girl. I don’t have a<br />
diva style or anything like that. I think I probably<br />
sound more like Mick Jagger. (laughs) I<br />
feel that both Janis Joplin and Grace Slick had<br />
more vocal range than me but I would say my<br />
style is similar.”<br />
Songbird continues, “Sometimes the music<br />
and energy of another artist will inspire me<br />
to write songs with a similar feel. That’s my<br />
way of tipping my hat to the artist. Grist For<br />
The Mill is kind of a snapshot of what it’s<br />
like to be on the road. Performers, artists and<br />
musicians live a very solitary life. I wrote it in<br />
tribute to Bill Kerchin who was inspirational<br />
for the song coming to pass. To me, writing<br />
lyrics to a song is like building the foundation<br />
of a building. The rest can be as intricate<br />
or as simple as you choose. Every building is<br />
unique and different.”<br />
“I try to use the term rock and roll a lot.<br />
I try to say it in some of our songs,” said<br />
Songbird. “I want to tell people that rock and<br />
roll is still here, it still exists and it’s alive and<br />
well in Cleveland! It’s just<br />
a matter of the rest of the<br />
world knowing it. I think<br />
our style is of late 60s and<br />
early 70s west coast, San<br />
Francisco type sound. I<br />
like to tell people that our<br />
sound is like if The Byrds,<br />
Crazy Horse, The Rolling<br />
Stones, Creedence Clearwater<br />
Revival and Jefferson<br />
Airplane all got on<br />
a bus together to party…<br />
then the band members got<br />
mixed up by getting on the<br />
wrong bus and created their<br />
own band with the various<br />
members. That is how I<br />
would describe the music<br />
of Jane Dough. We are very vintage rock and<br />
roll.”<br />
Through various contacts, connections and<br />
networking, Songbird was introduced to James<br />
Guyette of WRUW-FM 91.1 radio station.<br />
“WRUW can be attributed to assisting with<br />
getting Cleveland musicians out there and be<br />
heard,” she said. “One day we were invited<br />
to be on the Cuzin Dave Show. When we<br />
walked into the station, they had some huge<br />
microphones that looked like they could read<br />
your mind! I was so nervous I don’t think I<br />
said more than two words. I know that is hard<br />
to believe! (laughs) Brendan is more on the<br />
quiet side but he ended up doing most of the<br />
interview because I was so nervous. Anyway,<br />
WRUW has been very supportive of our music<br />
and I credit them for us still being a band<br />
today. I think it’s a little bit harder when your<br />
band plays originals. It’s a cover band climate<br />
and diffi cult to break out of the box. There are<br />
venues out there that support original acts and<br />
I think more should be done to promote the<br />
original music scene. In my mind, Cleveland<br />
is a historical spot for original music.”<br />
James Guyette, aka Mr. JEG on WRUW<br />
had some very thoughtful words in regards<br />
to Songbird and the music of Jane Dough.<br />
“Songbird was among the favorite performers<br />
of the late Cuzin Dave who had hosted “When<br />
the Roses Bloom Again” for nearly 40 years.<br />
(He passed away in September.) Songbird<br />
and her band mates have made numerous<br />
in-studio appearances on the program and she<br />
has always been eloquent in describing the<br />
songs and their upcoming gigs. A particularly<br />
important factor for someone in the music industry<br />
is Songbird’s willingness and ability to<br />
produce creative and artfully done posters advertising<br />
the various events. Songbird played a<br />
key role in the benefi t for Cuzin Dave and his<br />
family held at the Beachland in August during<br />
his illness. Her assistance was invaluable in<br />
coordinating the contributions submitted by<br />
numerous listeners, performers and artists. She<br />
also was a great force in organizing the lineup<br />
of musicians who were volunteering their<br />
time and talents to make the benefi t a success.<br />
Songbird’s overall enthusiasm for writing<br />
songs, recording them and playing out is a big<br />
factor in furthering the band’s exposure to the<br />
public.”<br />
Jane Dough is continuing to turn musical<br />
heads and moving forward with some great<br />
support along the way. John Gorman, former<br />
Music and Program Director of WMMS, The<br />
Buzzard, said, “I like Songbird. She is a survivor.<br />
She speaks her mind. You know exactly<br />
where you stand with her. She doesn’t play in<br />
other people’s games. I feel this band has a lot<br />
of potential, which is driven by their passion<br />
for music. They may not be at that magical<br />
“there” yet but they have all the necessary<br />
ingredients to go the distance.”<br />
Ken Dixon of EYE SEE MUSIC had this<br />
to say, “After more than ten years since my<br />
last CD was issued, a song by the band, Jane<br />
Dough made me want to do it again! Grist For<br />
The Mill was a steamy slab drawling truth that<br />
I felt people needed to hear. Songwriting vocalist,<br />
Songbird has journals full of lyrics that<br />
are enough for a full album to be issued soon,<br />
preceded by an old-fashioned single…a vinyl<br />
45-rpm record! Songbird made me see that it<br />
was time to re-enter the music business.”<br />
After fi nishing a recent recording session in<br />
Nashville with Jane Dough, Chris Mara who is<br />
the owner, engineer and producer of Welcome<br />
to 1979 Analog Studios said, “Jane Dough<br />
is the kind of band we sit in here and dream<br />
of recording. These were some of the most<br />
productive and effi cient sessions we have had<br />
in years. This is a real rock and roll album by<br />
a real rock and roll band.”<br />
On Saturday, July 23, Jane Dough will be<br />
on the main stage for the Burning River Fest<br />
on Whiskey Island. For people who have<br />
never seen Jane Dough before, Songbird lets<br />
them know what to expect, “People can expect<br />
to have the same feel and sound right down to<br />
the vintage equipment like they would have<br />
experienced at a rock concert during the late<br />
60s or early 70s. It’s very spontaneous and<br />
we also do instrumental jams. We are a pretty<br />
hard rockin’ band.”<br />
For more information about Jane Dough<br />
including show dates, the latest news on their<br />
album and much more, please visit: www.<br />
janedough.net<br />
Jane Dough is also on Facebook<br />
Cover Photo courtesy of Mike Pella.<br />
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Band of Heathens Plays Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland<br />
2010 was a year of making noise and<br />
news for the Band of Heathens. With 200plus<br />
show dates, a fi fth anniversary celebration,appearances<br />
at<br />
Lollapalooza<br />
and other<br />
top national<br />
festivals<br />
and a taping<br />
of Austin<br />
City Limits<br />
with Elvis<br />
Costello.<br />
So<br />
where in<br />
heaven’s<br />
name did<br />
they fi nd<br />
time to<br />
record<br />
a new<br />
album? Well, this tireless Austin quintet did<br />
fi nd time to sneak into the studio, fl anked by<br />
producer George Reiff and proceeded to make<br />
the album of their career. The result is<br />
Top Hat Crown & the<br />
Clapmaster’s Son, a<br />
surprising, multi-faceted<br />
gem of a disc. Their<br />
third studio album and<br />
the fi fth release overall,<br />
Top Hat Crown displays<br />
the wide range of classic<br />
infl uences fans and critics<br />
have come to admire<br />
in the band, yet they’ve<br />
added, built and grown.<br />
Producer George Reiff,<br />
celebrated for his work<br />
with the Black Crowes’<br />
Chris Robinson, the Courtyard<br />
Hounds (Martie Maguire<br />
and Emily Robison<br />
of the Dixie Chicks) and Ray Wylie Hubbard,<br />
tended to the album’s vibe and spirit, which is<br />
reaching, rocking, bluesy, funky and enjoyable<br />
as hell, from its rocking opening to its serene<br />
acoustic conclusion.<br />
The Band of Heathens is constantly being<br />
compared to “The Band” because of the musical<br />
fi nesse that overlays their timeless, rootsy<br />
core. And the three founding members are all<br />
skilled multi-instrumentalists who can play<br />
almost any position in the fi eld. But TBoH<br />
has reached so many fans so fast because of<br />
the echoes of and subtle homage to so many<br />
different artists at the core of the Americana<br />
canon, including Tom Petty, Tony Joe White,<br />
the Grateful Dead, Leon Russell, George Harrison,<br />
and other rarifi ed stylists. You can hear<br />
a little of all that at a Heathens show or on<br />
disc, and Top Hat Crown feels like the most<br />
coherent and mature encapsulation of those<br />
elements so far.<br />
Given the timelessness of their sound, one<br />
gets the sense that Ed Jurdi, Gordy Quist and<br />
Colin Brooks would have gravitated toward<br />
the same essential feel had they met in 1975<br />
or 2045. As it happens, it was in 2006 after<br />
each songwriter had established residency gigs<br />
on the same night of the week at Momo’s, an<br />
eclectic-minded club on Austin’s famous Sixth<br />
Street. Friendship, semi-regular sit-ins and<br />
harmony jags gelled into something quite rare:<br />
a band with three frontmen, each with enough<br />
humility and passion to invest in the larger<br />
project. The sum transcended the parts. Bassist<br />
Seth Whitney was a member from the get-go.<br />
Drummer John Chipman joined in 2007 as<br />
their road calendar got heavier.<br />
Fans of the band will note one familiar<br />
song here. “Free Again” was written,<br />
recorded and released as a single in a blast<br />
of energy in the summer of 2010, inspired by<br />
the mind-boggling Gulf of Mexico oil spill.<br />
It’s sincere and sarcastic, playful and chastising.<br />
And it’s part of a Louisiana theme that<br />
closes out the album and ties the whole project<br />
together. “Hurricane,” the album’s lone cover,<br />
a Nashville-written tune from an old Levon<br />
Helm album, is a poignant portrait of an aging<br />
Gulf <strong>Coast</strong> salt refl ecting on storms and eerily<br />
anticipating Katrina. And “Gris Gris Satchel,”<br />
the fi nal cut, is a gorgeous and soothing<br />
acoustic tune that evokes old New Orleans<br />
and memories of great Crosby, Stills & Nash<br />
tracks.<br />
Like that historic group, the Band of<br />
Heathens is distinguished by collaboration and<br />
load-sharing. And while songwriting and vocal<br />
duties are chiefl y handled by the three guys<br />
across the front of the stage, they are decidedly<br />
a fi ve-man band, benefi tting from the equal<br />
input of all. This can lead to a lot of deliberation<br />
and creative tension. But it also means<br />
the music that emerges has been through fi ve<br />
fi lters and enjoyed the collaborative creative<br />
power of fi ve music-loving minds. “When I<br />
write a song with Ed or Colin, I usually hear<br />
it a certain way in my head,” says Quist about<br />
the power of the process. “When we bring it in<br />
to the band, the song almost always comes out<br />
turned on its head, leaning in another direction<br />
from where it started.” Music fans nationwide<br />
will hear that distilled quality upon the release<br />
of Top Hat Crown.<br />
The band is performing at BEACHLAND<br />
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Paramount PG13 <strong>11</strong>2 min<br />
So I guess this was great expectations<br />
week and I don’t mean Dickens. Steven Spielberg<br />
is by any estimation at the top of the elite<br />
few in the movie business. His list of family<br />
friendly blockbusters seems endless and SU-<br />
PER 8 seems poised to join the ranks.<br />
To go with the monstrous ad campaign, it<br />
has everything one would expect in a crowd<br />
pleaser, kids, a 70s period piece, romance,<br />
family confl ict, a goon from space. Whew!<br />
Now you know I won’t read anyone else’s<br />
reviews until I’ve made up my mind about<br />
something and honestly I’m a little surprised<br />
by the love SUPER 8 has gotten. Don’t misunderstand,<br />
it isn’t worthy of any real castigation<br />
but for some reason I just couldn’t get fully<br />
involved. It was just a little underwhelming.<br />
There’s nothing wrong with the acting though,<br />
like many in this genre it isn’t an actor’s<br />
vehicle, meaning - the story and FX are the<br />
focus.The FX themselves were state of the art,<br />
though you can fi nd top drawer FX just about<br />
everywhere these days.<br />
Maybe it’s the story itself; or better yet stories.<br />
There are a lot of them wrapped up in this<br />
adventure.<br />
First Joe, a teen in a fi ctional Ohio town that<br />
looks as lot like a suburb of Dayton has lost<br />
his mom in a freak industrial accident.<br />
He has a crush on Alice but Joe’s dad blames<br />
Alice’s dad for the accident. So there’s the<br />
Romeo and Juliet hook.<br />
The two kids have been sneaking off to help<br />
budding fi lmmaker Charles shoot a low budget<br />
zombie fl ick and of course the portly director<br />
has the hots for her too. Shades of Hitchcock!<br />
While fi lming a scene the crew accidentally<br />
captures footage of a bizarre train wreck and<br />
stumbles upon their biology teacher babbling<br />
a dire but cryptic warning. OK. Shortly<br />
thereafter the kids fi nd some really unusual<br />
stuff among the wreckage the military takes<br />
over and that’s never a good sign in this type<br />
of movie.<br />
In their blundering and ham handed way the<br />
mission is to contain or destroy an extra terrestrial<br />
monster who, like ET before him is just<br />
trying to get home.<br />
Eventually in the grand tradition of Scooby<br />
Doo the meddling kids get to the bottom of the<br />
mystery and save the world, or at least their<br />
home town.<br />
Maybe there were just too<br />
many side stories to follow<br />
which kept me from getting<br />
too involved with any one<br />
of them. There were just too<br />
many loose ends that never<br />
really get tied up.<br />
Whatever the reason the<br />
whole affair seemed like<br />
an awful lot of familiar<br />
material squeezed into a<br />
relatively small space.<br />
It’s not terrible by any means<br />
but just never achieves the<br />
heights one would<br />
expect.<br />
C+<br />
Green Lantern<br />
Warner Brothers PG13 105 min<br />
So yet another in the week of disappointments<br />
and for me a bigger letdown than<br />
SUPER 8.<br />
As I point out, I never really read Marvel<br />
Comics as a kid but I did read the DC roster<br />
regularly. Green Lantern was one of my favorites<br />
as a kid and I’ve been looking forward to<br />
this for a long time.<br />
For the screen adaptations of many of my<br />
favorites one pet peeve is when the director<br />
takes too many liberties with my perception<br />
of the legend. For instance Lex Luthor in a<br />
wig or Batman seeming to have super powers.<br />
Well this isn’t the case with the screen version<br />
of GREEN LANTERN. Ryan Reynolds’ Hal<br />
Jordan is pretty darn true to form as the ring<br />
wielding super hero.The origins are accurate<br />
as well.<br />
The guardians (who bear a striking resemblance<br />
to STAR TREK Talosians) have an<br />
intergalactic force of creatures who have been<br />
given power rings and entrusted to fi ght evil<br />
across the universe.<br />
The guardians seek out those who are without<br />
fear though I seem to remember they sought<br />
those pure of heart.<br />
Anyway the earthling they have selected is<br />
test pilot Hal Jordan who works for Ferris<br />
industries where he has a tendency to buck the<br />
system.<br />
Apparently there’s one of those doomsday<br />
villains (not unlike STAR TREK’s V Ger hmmmm)<br />
that’s been destroying entire civilizations<br />
and has killed a few of the guardians<br />
heroes. It happens to be on its way to earth.<br />
So Jordan is given the power ring and its charger<br />
lantern and taught the anti evil oath and<br />
whisked off to complete his training.<br />
Then there’s some soul searching but mostly a<br />
lot of ring tricks and blowing stuff up. See, the<br />
rings power is that it can make anything the<br />
wearer can imagine materialize; missiles, giant<br />
boxing gloves immense sledgehammers etc..<br />
When I was a kid that was only possible on<br />
the pages of comic art but now thanks to computerized<br />
FX it happens on the screen.<br />
I guess what amazed me as a 12 year old kid<br />
seems a little hokey today. The rings power is<br />
still cool, it’s machinations look great and the<br />
storyline is straightforward.<br />
Reynolds is dead on as Jordan and the love<br />
interest Carol Ferris is as cute as she can be.<br />
And we learn a lesson about the strengths of<br />
the human race.<br />
I guess what’s missing is the awe of a 12 year<br />
old kid which is sadly somewhat lacking at<br />
my age.<br />
If (and I hope so) GREEN LANTERN is<br />
meant for a younger audience then it should be<br />
a crowd pleaser.<br />
For older people; not so much.<br />
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Net Pick: Field of Dreams<br />
Yeah I know Father’s Day was last week<br />
but it reminded me<br />
of listening to a<br />
ball game with the<br />
old man. As a child<br />
my pop played<br />
catch with an<br />
elderly gent who’d<br />
rented a room<br />
across the street<br />
from grandpa’s<br />
house in rural<br />
Carrollton, Ohio.<br />
According to dad,<br />
that old timer was<br />
Cy Young.<br />
Then thinking of<br />
baseball it occurred<br />
to me that along<br />
with apple pie and<br />
hot dogs that the<br />
fourth of July was<br />
on deck.<br />
There are a few great (and many good)<br />
modern day fi lms based on the green diamond<br />
and I’ve picked FIELD OF DREAMS over<br />
THE NATURAL (which I also loved) since<br />
the latter abandoned its bleak surrealism for a<br />
more Hollywood ending.<br />
FOD is a feel good fi lm from the get go.<br />
It features Kevin Costner at his homespun best<br />
and the swan song of one of our greatest post<br />
modern screen legends<br />
Burt Lancaster.<br />
The basic hook is that<br />
Costner builds a ball yard<br />
in a cornfi eld and soon it’s<br />
populated by the ghosts of<br />
ballplayers of days gone<br />
by. You’ll see a young Ray<br />
Liotta as Shoeless Joe.<br />
It’s a nice slice of Americana<br />
and perfect for the<br />
season.<br />
And be truthful guys,<br />
tell me you didn’t cry<br />
when Lancaster stepped<br />
over that line.<br />
WSS<br />
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JUST FOR LAUGHS<br />
A man and his wife were working in<br />
their garden one day and theman<br />
looks over at his wife and says:<br />
“Your butt is getting really big,<br />
I mean really big. I bet your<br />
butt is bigger than the barbecue.”<br />
With that he proceeded to get a measuring<br />
tape and measure the grill and<br />
then went over to where his wife was working and<br />
measured his wife’s bottom.<br />
“Yes, I was right; your butt is two inches wider<br />
than the barbecue!!!”<br />
The woman chose to ignore her husband.<br />
Later that night in bed, the husband is feeling a<br />
little frisky.<br />
He makes some advances towards his wife who<br />
completely brushes him off. “What’s wrong?” he<br />
asks.<br />
She answers: “Do you really think I’m going to<br />
fi re up this big-ass grill for one little weenie?<br />
Two naked statues (a man and a woman) had been<br />
standing looking at each other in a park for a hundred<br />
years. One day, an angel came to visit them<br />
and said since they had stood there so patiently<br />
through all the summers and winters they would<br />
be rewarded by half an hour of human life to do<br />
whatever they have wanted most. The two statues<br />
came to life, looked at each other a bit shyly,<br />
laughed a bit and said,<br />
“Shall we?” and “Yes, let’s do!”<br />
They dashed for the bushes, from<br />
which shortly was heard giggling,<br />
laughter and the shaking of branches.<br />
After a quarter hour, they came<br />
out from the bushes all hot, fl ustered<br />
and happy.<br />
The angel said they had only used half<br />
their time and why didn’t they start all<br />
over again. The statues giggled a bit and the man<br />
statue said to the woman statue, “Ok, let’s do it<br />
again. Only this time we’ll do it the other way<br />
around. YOU hold the pigeon down and I’LL shit<br />
on its’ head.”<br />
Little Tim was in the garden fi lling in a hole when<br />
his neighbor peered over the fence.<br />
Interested in what the cheeky-faced youngster<br />
was up to, he politely asked, “What are you up to<br />
there, Tim?”<br />
“My goldfi sh died,” replied Tim tearfully, without<br />
looking up, “and I’ve just buried him.”<br />
The neighbor was concerned, “That’s an awfully<br />
big hole for a goldfi sh, isn’t it?”<br />
Tim patted down the last heap of earth then<br />
replied, “That’s because he’s inside your stupid<br />
cat.”<br />
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help wanted<br />
Advertising Sales Rep to cover Geauga<br />
and Cuyahoga counties for the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Coast</strong><br />
<strong>Voice</strong> Magazine. Commission based –<br />
Great opportunity to make extra money.<br />
Extra perks: Gas card, tickets to shows, gift<br />
cert.’s for dining out. 440-415-0999<br />
services<br />
Clean Houses? Mow Lawns? Do handyman<br />
work? Advertise Your services here.<br />
MUSICIAN NEEDED<br />
40-something classic hard rock band<br />
seeks lead vocalist, ability to harmonize<br />
a must. Ability to play keyboards or<br />
some other instrument(s) preferable but<br />
not necessary. Our infl uences are: Van<br />
Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, (you get the<br />
picture). We are high-energy, crowd-interactive,<br />
and FUN! We have several gigs<br />
booked at this point. Interested persons<br />
should call Martin @ 440-897-6819.”<br />
THE SPORTS REPORT<br />
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Listen Live AT<br />
www.espn970wfun.com<br />
p<br />
Yamaha Digital Piano #YDP – 223 $550<br />
Sleeper Couch – Purple Never Used $250<br />
Double Recliner – Charcoal Never Used $250<br />
Phone 440-357-3450<br />
Like New – Only used once Sony RCD<br />
w500c/w100 CD Burner and 5 CD<br />
changer with cable $200 OBO<br />
Call 440-224-1234.<br />
Whirlpool Dishwasher - currently<br />
portable on wheels but casing can be<br />
removed for counter installation. Used<br />
several years but works great!<br />
Black door, almond sides, wood block top<br />
$100. Call 440-415-6589<br />
Joe “Pigskin” Pete<br />
interviews the Top Sports Figures in the Country!<br />
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Baseball<br />
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Domino’s Pizza American Alert GCR Firestone Tire Center<br />
Ashtabula County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Dan Sposito Insurance<br />
Los Compadres Mexican Restaurant Little Italy Italian Restaurant & Bakery<br />
Furniture Towne & Appliances Baldwin Wallace College<br />
Albinos Meats & Catering The Great Outdoors Store<br />
Shows streamed live at www.espn970wfun.com<br />
CLASSIFIEDS<br />
FOR SALE<br />
pets<br />
Dog-sitting service. Don’t kennel your<br />
dog when you go on vacation, he can<br />
stay with me! Lots of exercise and socialization.<br />
Sleeps in the house! Long/Short<br />
Term and Day Care at reasonable rates.<br />
Call Linde 440-951-2468.<br />
firewood<br />
Selling Firewood for fi replaces, stoves or<br />
camping? Advertise it here.<br />
Great Introductory Rate!<br />
$15 For 30 words!<br />
Gives Two Weeks Exposure!<br />
Email info to advertising@northcoastvoice.com and pay online<br />
through our Advertising link at www.northcoastvoice.com<br />
Mail ad with check/money order to NCV P.O. Box <strong>11</strong>8 Geneva, Oh 44041<br />
recreational<br />
POOL TABLE – 7 Foot, 3 / 4 Inch Slate.<br />
Good Condition -Currently Disassembled.<br />
Custom Made by Bullseye Billiards<br />
$650 or BO 440-228-1363<br />
Don’t need it?<br />
Sell it. Trade it. Give it<br />
away.<br />
Or list something<br />
you’re looking for!<br />
TWO WEEKS<br />
LISTING<br />
FOR JUST $15.00!<br />
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~ Rick Ray<br />
We’re All Gonna Die!<br />
To keep myself entertained and well informed,<br />
I’ve been watching the Discovery Channel<br />
series “Ancient Aliens”.<br />
In short, there is strong evidence, and it is becoming<br />
widely believed that highly advanced<br />
civilizations from other worlds not only visited<br />
our primitive earth tens of thousands of years<br />
ago, but also through genetic manipulation<br />
took a stinky ole caveman and produced human<br />
as he is today.<br />
Well not quite like he is today, they didn’t give<br />
him the internet, clothes or cel-phones; instead<br />
they gave him slave labor!<br />
HOT DOG… thanks guys!<br />
Sheesh, an advanced extraterrestrial civilization<br />
progresses to the point of being able to<br />
travel through space to other planets and what<br />
do they do? Pick Earth with its Cro-Magnon<br />
monkey people; mess with their genes by<br />
mixing in some of their own DNA to create a<br />
superior race of earthlings? No… slave laborers<br />
and politicians!<br />
What the…?<br />
I may not be the smartest man on the earth…<br />
no really… but if I was sent out into the<br />
cosmos with a bag of fancy highly developed<br />
techno gadgets to explore new worlds, I<br />
certainly wouldn’t mix my DNA with monkey<br />
people to create p-p-p-politicians! Hot little<br />
ladies to cater to my every need maybe, but<br />
never politicians!<br />
What were they thinking?<br />
Well I have my own theory of how all this<br />
could have taken place, for one thing evidence<br />
exists that they liked BEER! Not only that but<br />
one of the fi rst things they taught our newly<br />
deformed ancestors was how to make it… lots<br />
of it!<br />
Now that explains some things, they were<br />
obviously drunker than skunks when they<br />
preformed their DNA experiments!<br />
Here’s how I see it; a planet that travels<br />
through our solar system every so many thousands<br />
of years and passes close enough to earth<br />
for them to travel here, sent a team of explorers<br />
to scope out our resources and found that<br />
we had plenty of gold, hops, hemp and other<br />
natural resources for them to plunder since<br />
they screwed up their own planet becoming so<br />
highly advanced.<br />
They can’t stay here very long without becoming<br />
sick from our atmosphere so they went<br />
back to report what they had found and develop<br />
a way to stay longer. Like any advanced<br />
civilization their kids were a bunch of spoiled<br />
rotten jobless delinquents, so they decided to<br />
send ‘Junior Aliens’ to earth to mine for gold<br />
the next time they got close enough, to pay for<br />
wrecking the family saucers on a drunken drag<br />
race spree.<br />
The ‘Junior Aliens’ really just wanting to party<br />
instead of wasting their time with w-w-wwork,<br />
got all highed up then set up a laboratory<br />
to start messing with monkey people DNA so<br />
they could get them to do the work for them!<br />
Well a few mistakes were made along the way<br />
resulting in hideous creatures running around<br />
earth… lawyers, politicians, used car salesmen<br />
and cats!<br />
Now ‘Daddy Alien’ fi nds out what ‘Junior<br />
Alien’ has been up to and being repulsed at the<br />
sight of our newly enhanced ancestors then<br />
said, “WHAT YOU’VE HAD SEX WITH<br />
THEM TOO! Junior when we get back in<br />
2012 you’re gonna clean up this mess!”<br />
We’re all gonna die!<br />
~ Snarp<br />
www.snarparkle.com<br />
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7743 Doty Rd. Madison, OH 44057<br />
www.debonne.com<br />
Hours<br />
Monday & Tuesday Noon-6 p.m.<br />
Wednesday & Friday Noon-<strong>11</strong> p.m.<br />
Thursday & Saturday Noon-8 p.m.<br />
Sunday 1-6 p.m.<br />
SERVING A VARIETY OF APPETIZERS, GRILLED SANDWICHES, AND DELICIOUS ENTRÉES.<br />
OPEN: MONDAY & TUESDAY NOON-6 P.M.; WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY NOON-8 P.M.; FRIDAY & SATURDAY<br />
NOON-<strong>11</strong> P.M.; SUNDAY 1-8 P.M. FOR INFO. CALL 440-298-9838 or grandrivercellars.com<br />
Now open<br />
7 days a week.<br />
Pet Day<br />
Saturday, July 23rd<br />
Judging at 4:30 pm. Categories include: cutest pet;<br />
ugliest pet; most unique pet; best attired pet; most<br />
wine-ish pet, and best pet trick. Gift certificates<br />
and trophies will be awarded to the winners. All<br />
animals must be leashed or caged. You are<br />
responsible for your pet's actions.<br />
The Heel'N Time Canine Drill Team, now in its<br />
12th season, will be performing at 3 p.m., weather<br />
permitting.<br />
Bocce Ball Tournament<br />
Get your friends together and join us on<br />
Wednesdays, July 20th and 27th, August 3rd, 10th,<br />
and 17th for our <strong>11</strong>th annual bocce ball tournament.<br />
This event is for the novice to the<br />
pro bocce player.<br />
5750 S. MADISON RD. (RT. 528) • MADISON, OH • 44057<br />
20<strong>11</strong> Dine With The Vines · Thursday, July 28th<br />
A Local Food & Wine Dining Series<br />
6:00 p.m. Enjoy this very unique evening out in the vineyard with white linens and fresh flowers,<br />
for this special dinner experience. Visiting Chef Jeremy Esterly of Paragon will prepare a five<br />
course meal for you using ALL local foods. Cindy Lindberg will pair each course with Grand River<br />
Cellars wine and local growers Mic and Kay Prochko of Covered Bridge Gardens will tell you<br />
about the produce used in your dinner. $75 per person. Reservations required by July 21st.<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
FEATURING:<br />
Wed., June 29 - Dennis Ford<br />
Fri., July 1 - The Castaways<br />
Sat., July 2 - Hatrick<br />
Sun., July 3 - Whooz Playin<br />
Wed., July 6 - Hit List<br />
Fri., July 8 - Light of Day<br />
Sat., July 9 -Alan Greene<br />
Sun., July 10 - Hit List<br />
Wed., July 13 - Larry Smith<br />
Fri., July 15 -Four Kings/Queen<br />
Sat., July 16 - Whooz Playin<br />
Sun., July 17 - Cora & Cami<br />
Wed., July 20 - Tom Todd<br />
Entertainment plays on<br />
Wednesday & Friday 7-<strong>11</strong> p.m.;<br />
Saturday 3:30-7:30 p.m.;<br />
Sunday 2:30-5:30 p.m.<br />
JOIN US FOR LIVE MUSIC<br />
EVERY FRIDAY,<br />
SATURDAY, & SUNDAY.<br />
Friday, July 1-Relay Band<br />
Saturday, July 2 -Blues DeVille<br />
Sunday, July 3-Dave Young (Jazz)<br />
Friday, July 8-Hatrick<br />
Saturday, July 9 King Pins<br />
Sunday, July 10-Mal Barron ( Jazz)<br />
Friday, July 15th The Castaways<br />
Saturday, July 16th The Four Kings<br />
Sunday, July 17th Stan Miller ( Jazz)<br />
Music plays Friday & Saturday<br />
from 7:30-10:30 p.m.<br />
& Sunday from 4-7.<br />
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