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Brevard Live April 2011 - 1 2 - Brevard Live April 2011 Brevard Live April 2011 - 3 4 - Brevard Live April 2011 Brevard Live April 2011 - 5 6 - Brevard Live April 2011 Content April 2011 FEATURES page 51 BREVARD LIVE MUSIC AWARDS LEE BRICE & JERROD NIEMAN It’s time to nominate your favorite local Lee Brice and Jerrod Niemann have each Columns musicians and bands to compete in Bre- been touring most of the year, and begin- Charles Van Riper vard’s most entertaining popularity con- ning last month, these friends and fellow 20 Political Satire test of the year, the 8th annual Brevard country stars are teaming up to co-head- Live Music Awards. Fill out the nomina- line The Higher Education Tour. Calendars tion ballot and mail it to Brevard Live Page 15 Magazine. 27 Live Entertainment, Page 8 Theatre, Concerts, MELBOURNE ART FESTIVAL Festivals, Arts BLUESMASTERS MUSIC FESTIVAL Over 250 artists from all over the coun- Brevard Scene Most music fans know him as vocal- try will display their talent and work in Downtown Melbourne. Headliner for the ist of the rock band Jefferson Starship 32 What’s hot in live entertainment is country swing band during the 80’s. But did you know that Brevard Asleep at the Wheel. Mickey Thomas made his mark in 1976 as lead vocalist with The Elvin Bishop Page 23 Pedicure Band? He headlines the Bluesmasters GRAHAM NOLAN 41 Pamper Yourself Music Festival in Kissimmee. Graham Nolan started drawing and copy- by Ana Kirby Page 10 ing comics at an early age since he loved the idea of telling stories with pictures and Life & The Beach was immediately drawn to visual narra- Relationship BIG BILL MORGANFIELD tive. Nolan claims he “spent a lot of deten- 44 Column & More You can celebrate Muddy Waters’ birth- tion hours at Hoover Jr. High cleaning the by Matt Bretz day with his talented son - Bill Morgan- desks I had drawn on.”.. field is back in town. Page 42 Page 13 Brevard Live April 2011 - 7 8 - Brevard Live April 2011 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most 8th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 19 years. Nominate Your Favorite Bands & Musicians PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke STAFF PARTICIPATE! ACCOUNT MANAGER his year’s award show is held August be nominated. Most musicians are not lim- Charlene Hemmle 8th, from 6:30 to 9 pm at the Glea- ited to one style of music anyway. MUSIC WRITERS T Matt Bretz son Auditorium on the FIT campus. After Who cannot be nominated? All previ- Chris Long 7 years we decided it was time to change ous “Entertainers of the Year”: Absolute OUT & ABOUT the wallpaper and move the venue. WFIT Blue, who have been helping as ushers at the Misti Blu Day radio has been a media partner and sponsor BMA ever since, Taylor Made, Black Eyed Charlene Hemmle for the BMAs since its beginning in 2004. Soul, Medusa, Vintage, Chain Reaction and ART The Gleason Performing Arts Center is a Open Fire are retired. They achieved the Terry Cronin III PHOTOGRAPHY comfortable theatre with a friendly staff highest accolades the BMA has to offer. Misti Blu Day and state-of-the-art sound system. We’re In effort to save trees, we won’t be ac- Tim Bretz looking forward to working with Gleason cepting any photo copies. You need to mail COLUMNISTS Center’s manager Mike Beckert. in the ballot printed in the magazine. Also, Chuck Van Riper But while the show is still several after seven years of counting ballots we Matt Bretz months away, it’s time to nominate your have become very good at spotting “bogus” Misti Blu Day Reproduction of any portion of favorite local musicians and bands to com- votes. So don’t even try, it will only benefit Brevard Live Magazine is strictly pete in Brevard’s most entertaining popu- Postmaster. prohibited without the written larity contest of the year, the 8th annual In our June issue we will reveal Bre- permission of the publisher. Brevard Live Music Awards. Just fill out vard’s favorites, five in each category. You, the nomination ballot on page 8 and mail it the reader, can then cast your vote until July ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES to Brevard Live Magazine/BMA, P.O. Box 10th when the final ballots are counted. Phone: (321) 956-9207 1452, Melbourne, Fl 32902. The event is produced by Brevard Fax: (321) 956-9228 Up to May 10th, 2011, you can mail in Live Magazine with the help of sponsors, [email protected] your ballot. You can fill out any or every musicians and friends. 100 percent of the COMMENTS & LETTERS category on the ballot. Name the ones you proceeds are donated to the Brevard Music Brevard Live Magazine love and follow. Please don’t nominate Jus- Aid, Inc., a not-for-profit fund that helps P.O. Box 1452, tin Bieber or Lady Gaga because they al- members of our local music scene in times Melbourne, Fl 32902 ready informed us that they won’t make it of need. to the BMA this year. We will keep you informed about details Copyright © 2011 There are no music style categories. A for the upcoming show introducing you to Brevard Live All rights reserved musician or band can play rock, blues, jazz, participating talent, and all those who will country, bluegrass, alternative, classic, and donate time and effort to the cause. We are not responsible for photos or scripts sent to Brevard Live Magazine. Published photos and Brevard Music Aid: A Little Help From My Friends articles become property of this publication. We are not hen BL-publisher in the hospitality business Riper. In 2010 Kenny Mi- responsible for wrongful WHeike Clarke and on the Space Coast. Then, chaels who has organized advertised or canceled venues. promoter/dj/musician Chris in 2008, Brevard Live estab- fundraisers and donated to Long decided to produce the lished another not-for-profit the cause for the second annual Brevard Live Music emergency fund for our mu- year joined the effort and Download a pdf file Awards they knew that it sic community including all became the executive direc- BREVARD needed to benefit a worthy musicians, djs, sound-guys tor and spokes person. FLORIDA cause. The first few years all etc. to receive help in time For more information proceeds were donated to of need, Brevard Music or to download an applica- LIVE Joe Realino Memorial Fund, Aid, Inc., headed by Heike tion go to www.brevardmu- www.brevardfloridalive.com a well-respected organiza- Clarke (president), Sue Lu- sicaid.com. Also read more www.brevardlive.com tion that benefits employees ley (Vice) and Chuck Van about the Music Aid on... www.floridalive.org continued page 37 Brevard Live April 2011 - 9 Blues Masters Music Festival sceola Heritage Park, OCentral Florida’s Event Complex is proud to host the first annual Kissimmee Blues- masters Music Festival on Sat- urday, April 30, 2011. The all- day music festival will open at 11 am and feature Mickey Thomas with special guests John Mayall, Elvin Bishop, Ruthie Foster, Kenny Neal, Sh- emekia Copeland, Pat Travers, Eddie Shaw and the Wolfgang, and Eric Gales. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster by call- ing 800-745-3000, ticketmas- ter.com and the Silver Spurs Arena Box Office. Advance tickets are $40 and you pay $50 at the gate. For more informa- tion call 321-697-3333 or visit www.OHPARK.com. 10 - Brevard Live April 2011 Brevard Live Vocalist Extraordinaire Mickey Thomas ost music fans know mony singer and eventually Mhim as vocalist of the made it to lead vocals. rock band Jefferson Star- In April 1979, Thomas ship during the 80’s and the was asked to join Jefferson smash hit “We Built This Starship. He spent most City On Rock’n’Roll.” But of the early eighties as the did you know that Mickey main vocalist of Jefferson Thomas made his mark in Starship, performing sev- 1976 as lead vocalist on the eral duets with Grace Slick mega-hit “Fooled Around (who rejoined in 1981) and And Fell In Love” with The gaining greater influence in Elvin Bishop Band? Indeed, the band. After Paul Kant- Mickey is a true Bluesmas- ner left in 1984, Thomas ter - and a remarkable vocal- was sole leader of the band. ist. From 1985-1989 the newly After listening to the dubbed ‘Starship’ scored Beatles Mickey wanted to some of their biggest hits. be a part of rock’n’roll. With When Slick left again in long time childhood friends 1988, Thomas sang all lead Charles Connell and Tom- vocals - in a band that was my Verran, Mickey Thomas formed when he was just 15 formed the first band with years old. Verran as vocalist. The original incarna- They split up but re- tion of Starship disbanded in formed in the early 1970s 1991. In 1992 Paul Kantner along with friend Bud reformed Jefferson Starship Thomas as the “Jets”. While without Thomas, and Thom- singing lead for the Jets in as formed a new touring 1974, Thomas joined the El- band called Starship featur- vin Bishop Group as a har- ing Mickey Thomas. Blues Talent & Legends Other performers are: Elvin Bishop, John Mayall, Shemekia Copeland, Ruthie Fos- ter, Kenny Neal, Sh- emekia Copeland, Pat Travers, Eddie Shaw and the Wolfgang, and Eric Gales. photo: Jen Taylor photo: Carol Friedman Brevard Live April 2011 - 11 12 - Brevard Live April 2011 Brevard Live April 14, 6:30 pm, Captain Hiram’s, Sebastian Saving Abel April 3, 2 pm, at Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian Big Bill Morganfield aving Abel is an American rock band from Corinth, SMississippi, formed in 2004 by Jared Weeks and Ja- son Null.