January 2015 The COASTAL STAR ArtsPaper AT11 Must See

www.palmbeachartspaper.com Cover Story PB Poetry Festival Dana Gioia and a presentation called Ballet’s Child are featured at this year’s festival. Page AT13

Theater Jason Alexander directs When You’re in Love, the Whole World Is Jewish in Boca Raton. Page AT15

Veteran West Coast rockers Los Lobos will play the Sunshine Music and Festival on Jan. 18 at Mizner Park. Tedeschi, Trucks bring ‘wish list’ of stars to Boca fest By Bill Meredith ArtsPaper Music Writer IF YOU GO The Sunshine The lead vocalist in the Tedeschi Music and Blues Trucks Band is powerhouse namesake Festival begins at singer/guitarist — yet its noon (gates open primary mouthpiece for press interviews at 11 a.m.) on Jan. is the group's other namesake guitarist, 18 at Mizner Park her husband, . Both will be Ampitheatre, 590 front and center when their 11-piece act Plaza Real, Boca headlines the third annual installment of Raton. Tickets: their own creation, the Sunshine Music & $49.50, $99.50 Books Blues Festival, on Jan. 18 at Mizner Park and $179.50, plus Bryan Stevenson chronicles Ampitheatre in Boca Raton. service charges criminal injustice in Just Mercy: A Trucks doesn't sing, and takes on such through Ticketmas- Story of Justice and Redemption. speaking engagements to help Tedeschi ter, 800-745-3000. Page AT17 rest her voice in-between her soaring Derek Trucks, founder of the fest. Photo by Jason Koerner excursions with the expansive blues/ soul juggernaut, which also features keyboardist/flutist , been a vital component of the Allman singer we’d been on the road with, Ryan saxophonist Kebbi Williams, trumpeter Brothers Band since 1999. His uncle is Shaw, and he and Mike also had a great Maurice Brown, trombonist Saunders that band's founding drummer, Butch rapport right away. And Tim provided Sermons, bassist , drummer/ Trucks. instant chemistry. He hears things percussionists Tyler Greenwell and J.J. “Mike is very involved in our harmonically as quickly as Kofi, and that’s Johnson, and backing vocalists Mike songwriting, and he steps out front for a unique.” Mattison and Mark Rivers. few songs a night,” Trucks says by phone Talk about starting off with a bang — Married since 2001, Tedeschi and from Richmond, Va., before the band’s the large group won a Best Blues Trucks certainly know how to share Dec. 11 engagement at the Carpenter Grammy for its 2011 debut CD Revelator, responsibilities, including recruiting Theatre. “Kofi’s such a bad boy musically, and has since released a 2012 live album musicians from their self-titled solo and I met J.J. when he was playing with (Everybody’s Talkin’) and 2013 studio bands when they combined forces in [singer/guitarist] Doyle Bramhall. When follow-up (). Trucks and 2010 (Trucks bringing in Burbridge he and Tyler first met and sat down Tedeschi live in Jacksonville, Trucks’ and Mattison; Tedeschi indoctrinating behind the drum kits, it was obvious that hometown, where they record their studio Greenwell). Tedeschi was already a five- they had an instant connection; a serious efforts at their home-based Swamp Raga Art time Grammy nominee; Trucks had led chemistry, both musically and personally. facility. At the Boca Museum, a his group since 1995, winning a Best Kebbi had been an staple for “I’ll be doing dishes and think about a retrospective of a forgotten Contemporary Blues Album Grammy years, and helped us find Maurice and chorus,” says Tedeschi. “Then I’ll bring it American master. Page AT18 for its 2009 effort . He’d also Sanders. We met Mark through another See FESTIVAL on page AT12 The Three Best Times to Visit Artists Alley Third Thursday Open Studios & Galleries 6-9pm First Friday ART Walk 6-9pm • Saturday in the Studios 12-5pm Cacace Fine Art AR Gallery Ona Steele Studio Steve Blackwood Studio Linda White Gallery Amanda Johnson Studio Pat Kaufman Art Jeff Whyman Studio Cloud House Pottery A. Funk Studio Magnus & Gordon Fine Art Schmidt Stained Glass Laszlo’s Painting Studio Studio Romaine Stacy Balmuth Studio James Knill Studio Diane Carter Studio 4th Ave Photography & Video The House of Perna Jan Murphy Studio Jane Strisik Studio Artists Alley • 340-358 NE 4th St. • Pineapple Grove Arts District, Delray Beach • www.ArtistsAlleyDelray.com