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Brevard Live Live April 2020 - 1 2 - Brevard Live April 2020 Brevard Live Live April 2020 - 3 4 - Brevard Live April 2020 Dear Brevard Live Readers The magazine was produced and ready to go to print when everything changed. Clubs and restaurants closed per executive order by Governeur Ron DeSantis within a few days. The magazine received a lot of cancelations. Restaurants whose ads were done and were willing to bat- tle the storm with less customers completely shut down. We followed their requests not to advertise their closed venues. What was left were 32 pages of articles and few advertisement. The King Center postponed a lot of the concerts in their ad. Please check their website. Victory Casino announced to be sailing again on April 1st, that ended up being an unintentional April fools joke. You will find updates on their Facebook page. All other advertise- ment should be correct. In these uncertain times, please call or visit websites to get the latest updates. We do not know when we can produce another print magazine as we need the support of our advertisers. But we will be back as soon as the pandemic is over and business has picked up. Visit our website www.BrevardLive.com for updates and read our digital issue.Stay well, stay healthy. Contents April 2020 FEATURES THE BALLAD OF MATT & JANET THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED Matt Bretz has written about love before. Columns By March 20th the donwtown areas were That was when he met his partner Janet. Charles Van Riper ghost-towns. All restaurants and bars Seven years later they broke up. Matt were closed, some still offered take-out 14 Political Satire was tight-lipped about it. After Brevard My Second House and curb services. All live entertainment Live received reader letters wanting him was canceled until further notice. to tell the story, he opened up. Page 7 Calendars Page 16 NO All live music and TRACEY CORYELL concerts are canceled She has worn a number of hats: singer, MELBOURNE ART FESTIVAL songwriter, business manager, wife. Did you think it would happen? Of CD Review Now, three years after the untimely course not! After all the volunteer work 21 by Rob Pedrick death of her world renowned musician/ to prepare for the 36th annual event, the husband Larry Coryell, she sets out with Coroanavirus canceled the festival. I Am Nomad the release of her 2nd CD Ravel and a Page 18 22 by Bill Stanley life with herself in the spotlight. Page 10 Rock Your Health JEFF FILIPSKI by Richard Hendry Filipski came to Melbourne 26 years 24 Brain Farming LOCAL LOWDOWN ago to escape the long winters of Buffa- Steve Keller is trying to keep you in- lo, NY. He now lives in Palm Bay where The Dope Doctor formed about our local music scene. It he brought up his kids. Filipski is a part might be a while until you see them per- of the Off Center Art Center in Down- 26 Luis A. Delgado, CAP form. In the meanwhile read what they town Melbourne, the SBG Gallery and have to say. the Upside Gallery. Fishing Report Page 12 Page 28 30 by Pompano Rich Brevard Live Live April 2020 - 5 6 - Brevard Live April 2020 BREVARD LATELY BREVARD LIVE The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 29 years. PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRAPHIC ART/ SALES Heike Clarke STAFF WRITERS Matthew Bretz Rob Pedrick Steve Keller PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper Amy Kellum Brad Martin COVER PHOTO Wikimedia COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Luis A. Delgado Richard Henry THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED Bill Stanley t was a great start of the month, March tried to switch over to curb side service, Reproduction of any portion of was hopping with activities, the weather but in many cases it was not worth the ef- Brevard Live Magazine is strictly wasI like a fairy tale. Everyone was looking fort. People go out to eat and drink AND prohibited without the written forward to Spring Break. We all knew that socialize. permission of the publisher. our beaches will be packed with young The photo above was taken on Satur- people, and the bars and restaurants day evening, March 21st, a day after the ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES would have the best time of the entire year complete shut down. A few restaurants Phone: (321) 956-9207 2020. The Corona virus? That was an is- still continue the allowed take-out service: [email protected] sue in China, Italy, and lately we had re- Earl’s Hideaway, Cantina Dos Amigos, ceived some troubling news from Wash- and those that have drive thru windows COMMENTS & LETTERS ington State, but Florida? - Nah! like Moo’s Soft Serve and Mustard’s Last Brevard Live Magazine By Mid-March we knew that some- Stand. Florida Beer sells beverages to go. P.O. Box 1452, thing was up. Governor Ron DeSantis When will it come back? All bar and Melbourne, Fl 32902 announced on March 17th that all public restaurant owners were told that this was Copyright © 2020 gatherings were suspended. Night clubs for 30 days, and if you don’t watch any All rights reserved and bars had to close, concerts were news channels, it’s a hope one can hang postponed, the St. Patrick’s Day Parades onto. Most venues started a big Spring We are not responsible for photos were canceled. At that time the restau- cleaning and tried to partially keep their or scripts sent to Brevard Live rants were allowed to keep their dining staff working. The rest was unemployed, Magazine. Published photos and rooms open at half capacity, and most es- no gigs for musicians anywhere. When articles become property of this tablishments complied. Nobody knew for President Trump announced that the US publication. We are not how long - the word on the street was 2 will open by Easter, there was another responsible for wrongful weeks. On March 20th, Governor DeSan- hope. But a virus won’t be dictated when advertised or canceled venues. tis issued an Executive Order, directing to shut down, so we will find out. “all restaurants and food establishments To our local musicians: Please read Download a pdf file within the State of Florida to suspend on- page 3 for information about addition- premises food and alcohol consumption al help that Brevard Music Group and BREVARD for customers. The listed establishments Brevard Live Magazine are working on. It FLORIDA may, however, operate their kitchens for will be a drop in the bucket. But we want the purpose of providing delivery or take- to help as much as possible. LIVE out services.” For a little while most places Photo: Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live Live April 2020 - 7 Brevard Live Her second release, Pirates, was instantly hailed as one of the great Wednesday albums of all time, garnering the elu- April 29, 7:30 PM sive 5-star review and a second cover in Rolling Stone. Rickie Lee Jones seemed to be able to do anything the boys could do, and on her own terms. RICKIE Her impact would be felt long after, even when she herself became one of the long unrecognized American trea- sures. LEE Rickie Lee Jones was the IT girl of the 80’s, trend setter, beautiful big smile and long blonde hair, gyrating JONES teenager in a spandex one-piece, a temptress in lacy elbow length gloves and heels - still a popular rock costume today. She abandoned the “dress like a guy to be taken seriously” maxim and ickie Lee Jones has spent a life founder of the band, Little Feat. He she ushered in a new epoch in singer/ Rtime dancing with her muse. She used it on his solo album, Thanks, I’ll songwriters - the pop singer. Still, she is the most iconic American female Eat It Here. Shortly thereafter, Warner is often associated with a musical gen- singer-songwriter of her time, a wom- Brothers auditioned Jonesand quickly eration 10 years her senior.And it is an who outlasted all her adversaries- signed her to the label. easy to see why: Rickie Lee was the -including youth and self-destruction. Her 1979 debut Rickie Lee Jones last to be associated with the first wave A seasoned humility brings her perfor- (Warner Bros) won the Grammy for of singer songwriters and the first of an mances an authenticity that only long- “Best New Artist.” She was hailed amalgamationofpop/jazz/rock singer enduring musicians achieve. Her art- by one critic as a “highly touted new songwriter--the self-made personality- istry is brilliantly underlined with her pop-jazz-singer-songwriter” and an- driven icon. 2019 forthcoming album KICKS. The other critic as “one of the best--if not Before Rickie Lee Jones,the genre album spans two decades (50s-70s) the best--artist of her generation.” In of singer songwriter was derived en- of pop, rock and jazz, presenting her addition to the album’s brilliant songs tirely from the folk singers of the 50’s unique and sophisticated interpreta- including the exceptional “On Satur- and 60’s. She brought jazz to the rock tions of songs that were pivotal to her day Afternoons in 1963,” the haunting stage, a teenaged recklessness and a musical journey. “Last Chance Texaco,” and the popular flair for drama. From the get-go, it was By the time she was 19, Jones “Chuck E’s in Love” - Jones was be- unclear which genre she was to rule. was living in Los Angeles, waiting coming a figure whose life was bear- Rickie Lee was voted best jazz singer tables and occasionally playing music ing a great deal of emulation by young in Playboy and Rolling Stone polls in out of the way coffee houses and women and men who found, in her deep two years in a row.