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Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 1 2 - Brevard Live January 2020 Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 3 4 - Brevard Live January 2020 Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 5 6 - Brevard Live January 2020 Contents January 2020 FEATURES LANDAU EUGENE MURPHY JR ANA POPOVIC Columbia Records recording artist and Ana’s list of awards and nominations is Columns NBC TV’s America’s Got Talent winner nearly endless and includes noms and Charles Van Riper wins for best artist, best blues artist, best Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. and his band 22 Political Satire will perform crooner classics from The blues guitarist, best singer. Brevard Mu- The Twinky Zone Great American Songbook. There will be sic Group will present her in a show at the King Center. two shows at Heidi’s Jazz Club. Calendars Page 11 Page 16 25 Live Entertainment, Concerts, Festivals INDIGO GIRLS This month, the Indigo Girls are com- SPANKS Together more than 3 1/2 decades as a Brevard Love ing to the King Center to take us on a band, they are in the middle of a “re- by Matt Bretz musical tour of their favorites as well as 30 birth” entertaining Brevard audiences. Human Satire some new material from their upcom- Steve Keller talked to Spanks about ing album, Look Long. Matt Bretz had their past, present, and future. Local Lowdown the chance to conduct an interview with by Steve Keller Amy Ray. Page 18 32 Page 12 DONNA THE BUFFALO CD Review by Rob Pedrick HELLA GAL Donna the Buffalo offers everything you 35 want in a roots band - songs that mat- Whether it is singing jazz in The Liquid The Dope Doctor Groove Project or her dance outfit Hel- ter, a groove that makes you dance, an Luis A. Delgado, CAP lalicious or heart felt original songs, she audience that spans generations, and 42 is here to be heard. Steve Keller had 5 a musical voice that evokes a sense of questions for her. community. Florida Arts by Steve Keller Page 14 Page 20 44 Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 7 8 - Brevard Live January 2020 BREVARD LIVE BREVARD LATELY The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 28 years. PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRAPHIC ART/ SALES Heike Clarke CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matthew Bretz Rob Pedrick Steve Keller CONTRIBUTING GRAPHIC ARTIST Ronald (RJ) Strantz PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper Amy Kellum COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Luis A. Delgado Richard Henry Bill Stanley Reproduction of any portion of Brevard Live Magazine is strictly prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Phone: (321) 956-9207 [email protected] COMMENTS & LETTERS Brevard Live Magazine P.O. Box 1452, Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved We are not responsible for photos or scripts sent to Brevard Live Magazine. Published photos and articles become property of this publication. We are not responsible for wrongful advertised or canceled venues. Download a pdf file The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on December 16th , at 7:10 pm at Launch Com- BREVARD plex 40. This rocket is carrying the JCSAT 18 and Kacific 1 communication satellites FLORIDA owned by SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. of Japan and Kacific Broadband Satellites of Singa- pore. Built by Boeing, JCSAT-18/Kacific1 will provide mobile and broadband services LIVE across the Asia-Pacific region. Photo by Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 9 10 - Brevard Live January 2020 Brevard Live Friday, Jan 17, 8:30pm Heidi’s Jazz Club, Cocoa Beach Danny Bacher Friday, Feb 14, Valentine’s Concert Hurricane Creek Saloon, Melbourne anny Bacher is an award-winning Dsinger, saxophonist, songwriter Saturday Jan 18, 6 & 8:30pm Tracy Byrd and entertainer in the fullest sense of Heidi’s Jazz Club, Cocoa Beach the term. He’s not only a master of the racy Lynn Byrd is an American demanding soprano sax, but combines Landau Eugene Tcountry music artist. Signed to his virtuosity on the instrument with a MCA Nashville Records in 1992, Byrd talent for comedy and narrative story- Murphy Jr. broke through on the country music telling. He’s a smooth and cool Musi- olumbia Records recording artist scene that year with his 1993 single cian who makes hot jazz and pop, cut Cand NBC TV’s America’s Got Tal- “Holdin’ Heaven”, which reached from the cloth of the great Louis Pri- ent winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. Number One on Billboard Hot Coun- ma. Bacher swings with pizzazz, scats and his band will perform crooner clas- try Singles & Tracks. Although he did and sings with a smoky voice, all add- sics from The Great American Song- not land a second Number One until ing to his compelling stage presence. book. There are two shows. After each 2002’s “Ten Rounds with Jose Cuer- In addition to a solid career in jazz performance, you can meet Landau, vo”, Byrd has charted more than thirty and cabaret, with a penchant for rare take a photo with him and purchase au- hit singles in his career, including elev- gems, classic pop and Great Ameri- tographed copies of his CD’s, DVD’s, en additional Top Ten hits. He has also can Songbook standards, Bacher has books and more. This is a rare oppor- released ten studio albums and two also worked as an actor, comedian and tunity to see a major television and re- greatest-hits albums, with four gold writer, touring internationally with cording artist in such a small, intimate certifications and one double-platinum his original works. Along with work- setting. certification from the RIAA. ing at venues such as the Blue Note, All of his success hasn’t made Through all of these years Byrd Birdland, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Landau forget his roots. He was born became a promoter favorite on the Town Hall, he has performed most in the Mountain State of West Virginia road, performing over 4000 exciting recently at Carnegie Hall alongside and continues to live there rather than shows across the United States, Can- the legendary Michael Feinstein, The move to entertainment industry hubs ada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia Live at Lynn series at the Wold PAC in like Los Angeles or New York. “West from 1992 until 2009! He then says he Boca Raton and the 2019 Cayman Arts Virginia will always be my home,” needed a break to take care of himself Festival. He was a featured performer says Landau, “and home and family are and his most precious thing, his fam- at the American Songbook Associa- the most important thing in the world ily, wife Michelle, daugter Evee, and tion annual gala in 2018 and made to me. I can always fly out to LA or son’s Logan and Jared, who had taken his Feinstein’s 54 Below debut in De- New York for work.” In between tour a backseat to his career for years. He cember 2018. Bacher has released two dates and appearances across the coun- did not perform from 2010-2013, but studio albums as a leader, Swing That try, Landau enjoys spending time at his in 2014 he got back to the music with Music! and Still Happy on the Whaling modest home tucked away in the West a new band. Byrd went back in the stu- City Sound label. A recent recipient Virginia hills. “I’ve got my little home dio in 2016. All American Texan was of the prestigious Margaret Whiting studio, plenty of room for my family released in October 2016 and has been Award, he is also a proud member of and a big beautiful mountain behind well received by his fans and critics the New York Friars Club. me.” www.heidisjazzclub.com alike. www.eventbrite.com Brevard Live Live January 2020 - 11 Brevard Live Photo by Jerey Cowart By Matthew Bretz my Ray and Emily Saliers met Ain high school but weren’t that close until they both went off to INDIGO GIRLS college and got homesick. They both landed at Emory University, Interview With Amy Ray much closer to home, and reunit- ed to become one of the biggest, most influential folk-rock duos You and Emily have had a long run artists from Atlanta with 2 Chains and of our time. This month, the In- since the release of Strange Fire. Big Boi from Outkast. We just like to digo Girls are coming to the King Endless tours, tons of albums, mul- keep doing different things. Also… writing new music helps keep things Center to take us on a musical tiple awards. How do you keep your fresh too. We write songs about any- tour of their favorites as well as motivation up and continued to find the inspiration to keep recording and thing and everything that’s going on in some new material from their up- touring? our lives or we see in the news or…a coming album, Look Long. Last AR: I think I keep my inspiration up by conversation I just had with my neigh- month I got the opportunity to listening to new artists and new music. bor. Anything really. chat up Amy Ray a bit about the We always try to keep changing things What music inspires you? What have past, present, and future…so, af- up too, so everything stays fresh for us. you been listening to lately? ter some hiccups with my phone We play different shows and collabo- AR: Ohhh…well that’s a tough one, service, that’s what I did. And it rations with other artists as well…for it really runs the gamut.