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Brevard Live December 2012 - 1 2 - Brevard Live December 2012 Brevard Live December 2012 - 3 4 - Brevard Live December 2012 Brevard Live December 2012 - 5 6 - Brevard Live December 2012 Content december 2012 FEATURES page 51 JOE BONAMASSA CHRISTMAS IN BREVARD Columns Since he broke into the blues-rock scene The Christmas season is here and has in the year 2000, Joe Bonamassa has more to offer than shopping bargains! If Charles Van Riper been working hard on his career with in- you want to enjoy the cultural meaning of 22 Political Satire ternational touring and CD releases while Christmas, there are lots of entertaining gaining a lot of fans and accolades. He is performances at our theatres. Calendars a true talent and a protégé. Page 17 & 19 Live Entertainment, Page 11 25 Concerts, Festivals GREAT WHITE MAGNOLIA FEST Nobody here tells you how to live, or Expose Yourself The band hit the mainstream in 1987 by Charles & Lissa when they released Once Bitten..., how to feel; it’s strictly people living 30 within the moment and left to their own which featured the hits “Rock Me” and Brevard Scene “Save Your Love”. accord. Caleb Miller was there to experi- ence the vibe of this annual festival. Steve Keller gives . 33 you the lowdown. Page 11 Page 20 CD Reviews ORIGINAL MUSIC SERIES JESSILYN PARK 39 by John Leach The past 8 weeks have been a huge suc- This story is about a grandmother and her cess and a win-win situation for original granddaughter who became inspired to HarborCityMusic bands and the audience. Be there for the pick up the paint brush a year ago. Now last two showcases with more original Original Music is she is an award-winning artist. 42 alive and well. music. Page 40 Page 14 Brevard Live December 2012 - 7 8 - Brevard Live December 2012 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 21 years. PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke STAFF ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Cynthia Prindle Joy To The World MUSIC WRITERS Caleb Miller Steve Keller his is a very special December be- So what can we expect this month? I think John Leach Tcause it might be the last one. Why? it’s what you decide will entertain you the OUT & ABOUT Well, the ancient Mayan calendar says ... most. You can join the “Doomsday Prep- Joe Cronin what? Google it and you find lots of scien- pers” (the National Geographic has a hold PHOTOGRAPHY Jesse Hearndon tific explanation in the allknowing inter- on that subject) or you can make an oc- Misti Blu Day net about how the Mayan calendar counts casion out of it and throw a doomsday Shelley Chandler time and cycles. Trying to understand it is party - and that’s exactly what several COLUMNISTS a full-time job. Maybe the fact alone that local venues decided to do. So this will Chuck Van Riper we are not knowledgable enough for high- be a very special December after all with Charles Knight & er mathematics opens to the doors to even two huge celebrations: The End-of-World Lissa Galindo HARBOR CITY MUSIC greater imaginations. I used to have simi- Parties on December 21st followed by the Sam Rece lar experiences in my math class when I End-of-Year parties on December 31st. Reproduction of any portion of looked out of the window, day-dreaming. Even though I think they got the sequence Brevard Live Magazine is strictly Much more interesting than the equations wrong, it sounds like fun. After all, what prohibited without the written on the blackboard. do we really know about tomorrow? permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES If you like the story about the Doomsday Live each day as if it was your last! How Phone: (321) 956-9207 theory, that’s very understandable. After often have you heard these words. They [email protected] all we enjoy movies about catastrophes. mean live your life to the fullest, be aware The story about Noah’s Arch was just of your surroundings, be grateful and re- COMMENTS & LETTERS the beginning. Since then human kind flect on the positive things in life. In our Brevard Live Magazine has imagined earth destruction through fast paced time filled with constant dis- P.O. Box 1452, fires, earth quakes, alien invasion, impact, tractions, we need to be aware of what’s Melbourne, Fl 32902 ice times, whatever science discovered, around us. Our friends and families, our Copyright © 2012 Brevard Live we made an end-of-earth movie out of blessings, our culture and heritage. We All rights reserved it. There is something strangely attrac- need to find out what’s important in our We are not responsible for photos tive about a disaster when you sit nice lives. Therefore, if we lived this month or scripts sent to Brevard Live and cozy in the theatre or at home. But as if this was our last month, reach out to Magazine. Published photos and now, after we’ve seen it all on the screen, each other, catch “one more” show, enjoy articles become property of this wouldn’t it be exiting to experience this a “last” concert, spend more time with publication. We are not responsible for wrongful in real life? Many video games simulate beloved ones, we will come out of 2012 advertised or canceled venues. exactly that. But this time it would be real revived and happier. - The Ultimate Survivor Game! Download a pdf file We at Brevard Live Magazine wish you BREVARD If you look at science websites it’s back to happy holidays and a great start to a new FLORIDA math class - boring. But our space expert year 2013! (Anyone got an idea what the NASA has a pretty interesting webpage number 13 could mean for next year?) LIVE “Beyond 2012: Why the World Won’t at www.brevardlive.co End” with NASA scientists answering Heike Clarke, Publisher/Editor Check out our affiliate at questions. Very comforting for those who www.harborcitymusic.com need some official opinions. Brevard Live December 2012 - 9 10 - Brevard Live December 2012 Brevard Live Joe Bonamassa Tuesday. December 11th, 8 pm at the King Center Melbourne oe Bonamassa is the next genera- a short period of being mentored by reached #2 on the U.K. Top 40 Albums tion of blues artists taking the mu- Danny Gatton, he learned such styles Chart, and he completed an arena tour Jsic a step further. His influences as country and jazz as well as polka. there in 2012. In 2009 he was the re- do not come from the original masters During this time with Gatton, Bona- cipient of the Classic Rock Magazine like Robert Johnson or Muddy Waters. massa sat in with Gatton’s band when- “Breakthrough Artist of the Year” Instead he was intrigued by the Jeff ever they played in New York. He first award, and The Guardian said of him: Beck Group, Eric Clapton, John May- opened for B. B. King at 12 years of “the 32-year-old from upstate New all, Rory Gallagher, Cream - bands that age. York has consolidated a reputation as played the European versions of blues. He began his career playing guitar the pre-eminent blues-rock guitarist of It’s not surprising that his popularity in the band Bloodline, which featured his generation”. went across the borders and his fame the offspring of several famous musi- He has collaborated with numer- is as international as his music. cians: Miles Davis, Robby Krieger of ous artists, including B.B. King, Eric Bonamassa was born and raised The Doors, and Berry Oakley of The Clapton, Beth Hart, Paul Rodgers, in New Hartford, New York. His par- Allman Brothers Band. He released Leslie West, Jon Lord, Vince Gill, San- ents owned and ran a guitar shop. He his first solo album A New Day Yes- di Thom and Glenn Hughes. He also is a fourth-generation musician, with terday in 2000, and has since released plays with Hughes in Black Country a great-grandfather and grandfather nine more solo studio albums, four Communion, along with Jason Bon- who both played trumpet, and a father live albums and three live DVDs, ham and Derek Sherinian. who plays guitar. Bonamassa credits along with two albums with the band Joe Bonamassa’s music contains his parents with fostering an apprecia- Black Country Communion and one a mix of several different genres: al- tion of music in his life as early as he album in collaboration with vocalist though it is primarily blues rock, since can remember. He received his first Beth Hart. relocating to Santorini, Greece in 2009 guitar from his father at the age of 4, He tours the world regularly, and to record the album Black Rock, his and by age 7 he was playing Stevie has developed a large following in the music has gained eastern influences, Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix tunes U.K. especially. His most recent al- with the addition of instruments such note for note. At the age of 11, during bum, Driving Towards The Daylight, as the bouzouki and clarinet. Brevard Live December 2012 - 11 12 - Brevard Live December 2012 Brevard Live Sunday, December 9th, 2pm Friday, December 14th, 7pm at Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian at Captain Hiram’s, Sebastian Pat Travers Great White anadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer Pat he Southern California blues-rock band Great White CTravers began his recording career with Polydor Re- Tfirst took a bite out of the rock scene with its eponymous cords in the mid-1970s.