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Brevard Live February 2019 - 1 2 - Brevard Live February 2019 Brevard Live February 2019 - 3 4 - Brevard Live February 2019 Brevard Live February 2019 - 5 6 - Brevard Live February 2019 Contents February 2019 FEATURES GRANT SEAFOOD FESTIVAL MELANIE Free admission, free parking, over 125 Columns crafters exhibiting, live entertainment, Mostly know for her hits “Brand New along with a menu of succulent seafood Charles Van Riper Key”, “Ruby Tuesday”, “What Have makes this a weekend no one wants to Political Satire They Done to My Song Ma”, and her 22 miss. This is Grant’s 53rd festival, and it Street Life song about performing at the first Wood- is the biggest fish fry in the south-east.. stock Festival “Lay Down (Candles in Page 17 Calendars the Rain)”, Melanie has continued to Live Entertainment, spread her special brand of music around 25 SIGFEST Concerts, Festivals the globe for the last handful of decades. The event was created by musicians to honor David & Shawn Sigafoos for their Page 10 Is It Llonel... ? commitment to support local musicians and charities. This year this all day event 32 by Matt Bretz MIKK PEACE & VIBE Human Satire This band had its debut performance at will raise funds to support Sammy Hill, the King Center opening up for Ever- a popular drummer, who is in need of CD Review clear in 2017. Now grown into a 6-piece- surgery. group frontman and leader Mikk Peace is Page 21 34 by Rob Pedrick picking up the pace. Page 12 Rock Your Health BEACHSIDE RETRO by Richard Hendry Once you enter the store the magnitude 40 FIT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL of impressions is overwhelming: hipster The Dope Doctor From Africa to Korea, Saudi Arabia to clothing, vintage records, vinyls and Luis A. Delgado, CAP Taiwan, the world’s cultures, foods and CDs, posters, jewelry, artifacts, a gigan- 42 traditions will be celebrated at Florida tic butterfly above it all, with little “air Florida Arts Tech’s 13th International Festival guitars” hanging from the ceiling.. Jamie Meagher Page 17 Page 36 44 Brevard Live February 2019 - 7 8 - Brevard Live February 2019 BREVARD LIVE BREVARD LATELY The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 27 years. PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRAPHIC ART/ SALES Heike Clarke SALES ASSOCIATE Anna Delgado CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matthew Bretz Ian Bertel Bruce Marion Rob Pedrick Steve Keller PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Luis A. Delgado Richard Henry Brian Bitner is known for his photography, he has Brian’s Photography Group on Facebook and a website on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/bbitner). This photo of Reproduction of any portion of the recent Super Blood Moon during a total lunar eclipse on January 20th to 21st Brevard Live Magazine is strictly was rather accidential. Brian tells Brevard Live: “This was an unplanned, spontane- prohibited without the written ous, home-after-drinking-at-the-bar, 20 minute effort in the cold.” - Well done! permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Phone: (321) 956-9207 [email protected] COMMENTS & LETTERS Brevard Live Magazine P.O. Box 1452, Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2019 Brevard Live All rights reserved We are not responsible for photos or scripts sent to Brevard Live Magazine. Published photos and articles become property of this publication. We are not responsible for wrongful advertised or canceled venues. Download a pdf file BREVARD Chuck Van Riper was up early in the morning on January 1st to catch the very FLORIDA first sunrise of the year 2019 on the Space Coast: Morning has broken like the first morning/ Blackbird has spoken like the first bird/ Praise for the singing/ LIVE Praise for the morning/ Praise for them springing fresh from the world... at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live February 2019 - 9 Brevard Live Saturday, Feb 16, Crockfest, Space Coast Harley Davidson Palm Bay MELANIE By Matthew Bretz eeping up with their steady flow Kof legendary acts on their stage, this month Space Coast Harley will welcome the one and only Melanie Safka, known simply as Melanie, in performance. Mostly know for her hits “Brand New Key”, “Ruby Tuesday”, “What Have They Done to My Song light up the sky with matches, lighters, became one of three Top 40 hits that Ma”, and her song about performing and candles even though it was rain- year making her the first female artist at the first Woodstock Festival “Lay ing. Melanie took this as inspiration to to have three at once. In 1972 she was Down (Candles in the Rain)”, Mela- write her first American hit “Lay Down awarded Billboard’s No. 1 Top Female nie has continued to spread her special (Candles in the Rain).” Vocalist award. brand of music around the globe for the In 1970 Melanie was invited to Over the years the hits and awards last handful of decades. Most recently play the Power Ridge Festival which kept a steady pace including an Emmy she has even teamed up Miley Cyrus was subsequently shut down by a court in 1989 for writing the lyrics to the for a collaboration. injunction. With a disappointed crowd “The First Time I Loved Forever,” the Originally from Queens, Melanie already on site Melanie decided to ig- theme song for the television series grew up with a jazz singing mother and nore the injunction and played for the Beauty and the Beast. In 2012 Melanie picked up on the family music bug ear- audience on a homemade stage pow- took a different turn and collaborated ly on. Starting out in highschool, in the ered by Mister Softee trucks. She was with John Haldoupis on a theatrical 60’s, Melanie became a staple at a cof- the only artist to play. With her fame musical about her love story with her fee house called The Inkwell in New on the rise she was immediately given husband. She both narrated and per- Jersey before graduating and attending slots at the Strawberry Fields Festival formed in the show and took it on tour college at The Academy of Dramatic and the Isle of Wight Festival where throughout Australia. Arts in New York. In college she could she was introduced by Keith Moon and Never slowing down, this year often be found on stage in the clubs of received four standing ovations. The Melanie joined Miley Cyrus for her developing folk hot-bed of Greenwich Isle of Wight Fest was repeated again backyard series Happy Hippie, a char- Village. Before long she was signed to in 2010 and Melanie was on the bill. ity project aiming to help fight home- Columbia Records where she released Melanie caused some controversy less LGBT youth. If you go to her site two singles, and then Buddah Records when she first released her song “Brand www.Melaniesafka.com you can do- where she found her first hit on the Eu- New Key” which talks about a roller nate and help establish individual sup- ropean charts with her song “Bobo’s skate and a key. Some audiences took port groups. Party” which went to number one in this as sexual innuendo and quite a few On Saturday, February 16th Mela- France. radio stations banned its play. During nie will be right here in our backyard For the next few years Melanie an interview in 2013 Melanie finally for CRockfest at the Space Coast Har- continued to enjoy success around Eu- talked about the real meaning behind ley Davidson dealership in Palm Bay rope, including a hit in the Netherlands the song relaying that it actually was which is the kickstart of The Wood- with “Beautiful People” in 1969, lead- a song about a roller skate she wrote stock Experience. If you aren’t familiar ing to an invitation to perform at the after a 20 day water fast. At the end of with her yet, check her shining catalog first Woodstock Festival later that year. her fast she pulled into a McDonald’s of hits and deep cuts. But even if you Only three solo women played the fes- and ordered a meal. The aroma of the don’t do that, do yourself a huge favor tival and Melanie was one of them. fast food brought back memories for and make sure you see the show...you During her set, the crowd was moved to her of roller skating. “Brand New Key” won’t be disappointed! 10 - Brevard Live February 2019 Brevard Live February 2019 - 11 Brevard Live Saturday, February 16, 8pm, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 8pm, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7:30 pm, King Center, Melbourne King Center, Melbourne King Center, Melbourne Alan Parsons Live Justin Hayward David Forster n October 1967, at the age of 18, ith 50 years at the peak of the avid Foster is a Canadian musi- IParsons went to work as an assistant Wentertainment industry under his Dcian, record producer, composer, engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where belt, Justin Hayward’s voice has been songwriter, and arranger. He has been he earned his first credit on the LP Ab- heard the world over. Known as the a producer for musicians including bey Road. He became a regular there, vocalist, lead guitarist and composer Chaka Khan, Alice Cooper, Christina engineering such projects as Wings’ for the Moody Blues, his enduring tal- Aguilera, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Brax- Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, ent has helped to define the rock’n’roll ton, Michael Bublé, Chicago, Natalie five albums by the Hollies, and Pink of his time. The band has sold 55 mil- Cole, Celine Dion, Kenny G, Josh Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, lion albums and received numerous Groban, Brandy Norwood, Whitney for which he received his firstGrammy awards.