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Brevard Live March 2019 - 1 2 - Brevard Live March 2019 Brevard Live March 2019 - 3 4 - Brevard Live March 2019 Brevard Live March 2019 - 5 6 - Brevard Live March 2019 Contents March 2019 FEATURES GRANT SEAFOOD FESTIVAL Free admission, free parking, over 125 Columns crafters exhibiting, live entertainment, SOJA along with a menu of succulent seafood Charles Van Riper Crowds at the Seafood and Music Festi- makes this a weekend no one wants to 22 Political Satire val in Viera will have the opportunity to miss. This is Grant’s 53rd festival, and PRO or POS? see one of the liveliest, joyful bands go- it is the biggest fish fry in the south-east. ing right now: Grammy-nominated reg- Page 17 Calendars gae group SOJA (Soldiers Of Jah Army) 25 Live Entertainment, will perform their roots rock reggae. Concerts, Festivals Page 10 SHRIMP FEST & CRAFT BREWS The 4th annual Shrimp Fest features Flat Earthers OUTLAWS & RENEGADES TOUR three days of shrimp, craft beer, live music, kids events and lots of vendors. 32 by Matt Bretz Country Music icons Travis Tritt and The Human Satire Charlie Daniels Band will headline the Restaurants along with a number of Seafood & Music Festival along with the food trucks will compete for the brag- CD Review highly popular The Cadillac Three. The ging rights to the winning recipe and the by Rob Pedrick three country music star bands are on the coveted “Golden Shrimp Award”. 34 blockbuster Outlaws & Renegades Tour. Page 17 Rock Your Health Page 12 by Richard Hendry SPACE COAST BIKE WEEK 40 DAVID PASTORIUS It’s a big month for SC Harley David- The Dope Doctor He’s been a legend in our area for de- son: the annual Bike Week will last from Luis A. Delgado, CAP cades. His newest solo album, Radio March 1st to 17th featuring 32 headlin- 42 Gold, is designed to take his talent to the ers in Palm Bay. There’s also the Grand top of the world. Opening for a new Titusville location. Florida Arts Phyllis Shipley Page 14 Page 18 44 Brevard Live March 2019 - 7 8 - Brevard Live March 2019 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 SALES ASSOCIATE Anna Delgado CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matthew Bretz Ian Bertel Bruce Marion Rob Pedrick Steve Keller PHOTOGRAPHY Brendon Paredes Chuck Van Riper COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Melanie Safka and son Beau were head- After, John Sebastian, Vanilla Fudge, Luis A. Delgado liners at the Kickstart to The Woodstock Canned Heat, Corky Laing, Johnny Win- Richard Henry Experience held during CRock Fest 2019 ter Legacy, Buddy Miles Expressions and last month at Space Coast Harley Da- many other famous performers to be an- Reproduction of any portion of vidson. Promoter/agent/musician Kenn nounced soon. Brevard Live Magazine is strictly Moutenot was happy with the turn-out: SCHD event coordinator Tim Bishop prohibited without the written “We are now looking forward to our big almost got arrested due to noise com- permission of the publisher. showcase of Woodstock Experience plaints - three times! - but those incidents during August 16th through 18th, again did not put a damper on his happiness: ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES at SC Harley.” Melanie will once again “Over 3,600 people enjoyed CRockfest Phone: (321) 956-9207 take the stage in these three festival and our free concerts. It was worth it.” [email protected] days along with names like 10 Years Photo: Shannon Chenoweth COMMENTS & LETTERS Brevard Live Magazine P.O. Box 1452, Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2019 Brevard Live 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 Florida Tech has been celebrating its 60th Anniversary with several events. On Feb- BREVARD ruary 12th they invited to a big concert at the Gleason Auditorium for a grand per- FLORIDA formance of all musical groups including the Concert Choir, String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Panther Big Band. It was a delightful evening of music to a packed LIVE house. Photo: Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live March 2019 - 9 Brevard Live Friday, March 8, Seafood & Music Fest, SC Daily Park, Viera SOJA By Matthew Bretz rowds this year at the Seafood and CMusic Festival in Viera will have the opportunity to see one of the live- liest, joyful band of musicians going right now. Grammy-nominated reggae group SOJA (Soldiers Of Jah Army), originally out of Arlington, Virginia, are bringing their special recipe of roots rock reggae to the Space Coast for a night of bobbin’ and skankin’. Currently on ATO Records, SOJA formed in 1997 in Virginia under the leadership of frontman Jacob Hemp- hill. The rest of the group is made up of seven more of the hottest musicians followed shortly after by a Dub ver- tracks at the end of the record, they we from the Arlington scene. Some of the sion of the same album called Dub in a quoted as stated that overall “you’ve guys met in middle or high school, and Time of Peace. I love that they released got one of the best American reggae al- others knew each other from pick-up what is essentially a remix of their first bums of the year.” gigs and random performances and album before putting out a follow-up In 2014 SOJA dropped Amid the jams around town. Whatever the case, sophomore release. By 2006 the band Noise and Haste produced by Supa the band came together as an evolution was on Innerloop Records and drop- Dups with a string of guests artists, of friendship and musical like-mind- ping their second album, Get Wiser, to well-known in the genre, including edness, and that element really shines some notable success. Get Wiser de- Damien Marley, J Boog, Anuhea, and through when watching their show. buted in the top 10 reggae albums of Collie Buddz (whom you may remem- The guys from SOJA love every min- iTunes and has remained in the top 100 ber from Florida Tech’s homecoming ute of what they are doing, but what’s to this day. concert a few years ago). The album more important is that they make sure topped the reggae charts and received you love it too. Over the next years SOJA continued a Grammy nomination in the Best Reg- The Soldiers Of Jah Army are to grow and develope as they recorded gae Album category. Bobby Lee Jefferson on bass and vo- and toured, and in 2012 they released cals, Patrick O’Shea on keyboards, Strength to Survive on their current la- Their most current album, released in Ryan “Bird” Berty on drums, Ken bel ATO Records. It sold over 50,000 2017, titled Poetry in Motion has been Brownell on percussion, Hellman Es- copies, and topped the Billboard Reg- the main focus of their touring for the corcia on saxophone, Rafael Rodriguez gae Album Chart for 2012 and 2013, as last couple of years. Rumor has it that on trumpet, Trevor Young on guitar and well as reaching number 2 on the Inde- SOJA will be back in the studio soon, vocals, and of course Jacob Hemphill pendent Albums chart. That same year but for the moment they are hitting on lead vocals and guitar. Unlike most SOJA was featured on the website All- some festivals around the states before bands this large, the boys from SOJA music- known for savvy reviews and jumping across the pond to star a tour have only had one member change discoveries of up and comers to watch leg in Europe. But while they are still since their inception, when keys player - where the writers praised the band for on American soil, you will have the Eric Rogers left and was replaced by their growth as songwriters as well as unique opportunity to catch this band at O-Shea. Hemphill’s development at a singer. the Seafood and Music Festival along SOJA released their first full length And while it is true that Allmusic had with special guest KY-Mani Marley. album, Peace in a Time of War, in 2002 an issue with the non-reggae acoustic www.SpaceCoastSeafoodFest.com 10 - Brevard Live March 2019 Brevard Live March 2019 - 11 Brevard Live WFIT’s Garage Monday, March 18, 7:30pm, King Center, Melbourne Band Contest Saturday, March 9, 7pm Little Feat FIT 89.5 FM has announced Seafood & Music Fest, Viera Wits 3rd Annual Garage Band asily one of the hardest working Contest. Many popular bands started Outlaws And Ebands in show biz, today’s Little in a garage. Bands like the Ramones, Feat is a seven-member powerhouse Clash, U2 and the Rolling Stones had Renegades Tour that ably carries on the group’s tradi- to start somewhere. WFIT is looking ountry Music icons Travis Tritt tion in both, the recording and touring for the next big thing. To enter just Cand The Charlie Daniels Band arenas. Time has loved these musical submit a video of your band perform- will headline the 4th annual Seafood heroes for more than three decades ing one original song in a “garage.” & Music Festival on Saturday, March now, as have legions of fans and The contest is open to all local bands 9th along with the highly popular The countless fellow musicians, many of in any genre of music – rock, blues, Cadillac Three.