Brevard Live April 2019 - 1 2 - Brevard Live April 2019 Brevard Live April 2019 - 3 4 - Brevard Live April 2019 Brevard Live April 2019 - 5 6 - Brevard Live April 2019 Contents April 2019 FEATURES MELBOURNE ART FESTIVAL PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO For the 35th time the Melbourne Art Columns Festival puts on a top ranked fine art Pat Benatar’s staggering vocals and take- show during Saturday and Sunday, April Charles Van Riper no-prisoners attitude, along with Neil 27th and 28th, from 9 am to 5 pm with Political Satire Giraldo’s trailblazing artistry as a guitar- 22 over 250 artists and non-stop music. Don’t Be A Dick! ist, producer, and songwriter forged the Parking and admission is free, undeniable chemistry and unique sound Calendars that created some of rock’s most memo- Page 17 Live Entertainment, rable hits. 25 Concerts, Festivals Page 10 BACK TO THE 80s FUTURE Gregg Young is opening up the Pinball Love Is For Junkies Palace featuring arcade video games that EAST COAST LOVE by Matt Bretz It’s a mere co-incidence that the 7th an- he collected since the 80s. It’s a reunion 32 Human Satire nual festival would fall on 4-20, but that’s with Gameboys, Starwars, Nintendo, just fine with producer Billy Bones. En- Super Nintendo, Atari 2600, Turbo joy the sounds of Reggae, Ska, Surf, and Machine Racetracks, MTV videos and CD Review original beach vibes! memorabilia like Alf, the Smurfs, etc. 34 by Rob Pedrick Page 12 Page 18 Rock Your Health by Richard Hendry STUART RICHARDSON CBS SURVIVOR AUDITIONS 40 Stuart Richardson is a rockstar. Although Come over to Port Canaveral for an The Dope Doctor he’s been in Brevard for just a few years, open casting call for the CBS hit real- Luis A. Delgado, CAP he plans on putting down his roots and ity show Survivor on Sunday, April 28th 42 enriching the music scene here one band from 10am to 2pm in the Victory Casino at a time. Terminal. Florida Arts Tim C Shubert Page 14 Page 21 44 Brevard Live April 2019 - 7 8 - Brevard Live April 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 Bruce Marion Rob Pedrick Steve Keller PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper Robin Werling COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Once again, Sigfest was the event that Luis A. 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Everyone was Irish. Photo by Chuck Van Riper Brevard Live April 2019 - 9 Brevard Live Sunday, May 5, 7pm King Center, Melbourne PAT BENATAR NEIL GIRALDO By Matthew Bretz our time Grammy winner, mezzo-soprano Pat Benatar hasF always done things, unapolo- getically, on her own terms. Bena- tar was the undisputed queen of rock in the 80’s. By the time the decade was over she was sport- ing two multi-platinums, five plat- inums, three golds, and nineteen top 40 singles including top 10 hits “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Love Is a Battlefield,” “We Be- long” and “Invincible.” You could scarcely turn on MTV back then without seeing one her heavily played videos. Flash forward to 2019 and Benatar is still killing it on stages around the world. On May 5th she will be killing it on OUR stage at the King Center in Melbourne, Florida with her ever present husband and lead guitar- ist Neil Giraldo. Born Patricia Andrzejewski in Brook- when Benatar left the band and moved to become Benatar’s manager for the lyn, New York and raised in Linden- to New York, New York on her own. next 15 years. hurst, Long Island, Benatar started One Night, after moving to the big In ‘78 Benatar was headlining at singing early on in elementary school apple, Pat decided to sign up for open Tramps nightclub where she impressed and locked in for life. All through her mic night at the famous Catch a Rising Terry Ellis, co-founder of Chrysalis formative years she was obsessed with Star. She was 27th in line to go on and Records, one night and subsequently honing her craft and developing her didn’t end up on stage until 2am. When signed with the label. While working vocal skills. In ‘73, Benatar was work- she finally got to perform she sang on her album in the studio producer ing as a bank teller when she saw an Judy Garland’s version of “Rock A and writer Mike Chapman introduced inspiring concert and decided to quit Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” Benatar to a young up and coming and pursue her music full time. Very and the crowd went wild. Rick New- guitarist who had just secured his quickly she signed on with a local band man, the owner of the club, went out spot in her band after beating out 200 called Coxon’s Army. By ‘75, Coxon’s to see what was going on and stayed to other hopefuls in auditions. The young Army had reached the height of popu- watch the rest of her performance. He string-slinger was none other than larity in Richmond, Virginia and were was floored, and afterwards introduced Benatar’s future husband Neil Giraldo. himself. That same man would go on about to break into the national scene continued page 12 10 - Brevard Live April 2019 Brevard Live April 2019 - 11 Brevard Live PAT BENATAR continued Neil and Pat had an instant connection and before long he was doing more than just leading the band. He began writing and producing for Benatar and within the year they were inseparable. Benatar’s album In the Heat of the Night, and consequently the world’s first chance at Giraldo and Benatar’s collaborative work, was released to Saturday, April 20, 8pm, great approval. The album, which in- Saturday, April 20, 2pm, cluded the classic “Heartbreaker,” as Sandbar, Cocoa Beach King Center, Melbourne well as the Giraldo-penned hit, “We Dennis DeYoung Live For Love” went platinum. East Coast Love By the time Benatar released ast Coast Love is back and bigger & Night Ranger Crimes of Passion in 1980, it was be- Ethan ever taking place on April wo shows for the price of one pre- coming clear to everyone that, even 20th at the Sandbar Sports Grill in Tsenting two headliners in one big though the albums and concerts were Cocoa Beach. The festival features concert on the King Center’s stage: executed under the name Pat Benatar, eight bands, prizes, contests and great Dennis DeYoung is a founding Pat and Neil has become a duo in every vibes. The event starts at 2 pm with the member of STYX and the lead singer way. Crimes of Passion won Pat her first band going on at 2:30pm. Every and writer of seven of the bands eight first Grammy while the process saw band plays a one-hour-showcase so the Top Ten Hits. His live concert show- Giraldo arranged, played keys and gui- music won’t stop until past midnight. cases all the STYX Greatest Hits. The tar, and added vocals to nearly every This will be the 7th East Coast Love set includes all eight top Top 10 hits, track. And in 1981, with the release of event, and as always, this will be a including “Lady,” “Babe,” “Come Precious Time, Giraldo had an official FREE show all day, all night with the Sail Away,” “Too Much Time On My position as producer and arranger...as sounds of Reggae, Ska, Surf, and origi- Hands,” “Best Of Times,” “Mr. Ro- well as guitar, keyboards, and vocals. nal beach vibes! There will be special boto,” plus classic rock anthems “Ren- In the 1980’s there were ten years t-shirts for sale at reasonable prices egade,” “Blue Collar Man,” “Suite Ma- of nominations for Best Female Rock along with some great raffles. dame Blue,” “Rockin The Paradise,’ Performance. Benatar was nominated Once again, it’s going to be a killer and more. His voice is one of the most for 9 of them, and won 4 of them con- line-up this year presenting talent from recognizable in the music world today secutively...she’s basically the Meryl all over the Sunshine State, bringing and continues to inspire new genera- Streep of rock. For over two decades that East Coast Love to you: Coastal tions of fans. Benatar, with Neil in the captain’s Breed, The Bullet Dodgers, Part One Night Ranger truly epitomizes the seat, couldn’t seem to release an album Tribe, Bless-ED Divine Derilicts, sound of the 80’s while at the same without receiving Grammys or at least Natty’s Common Roots, Intra Coastal, time transcending it.