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Brevard Live May 2015 - 1 2 - Brevard Live May 2015 Brevard Live May 2015 - 3 4 - Brevard Live May 2015 Brevard Live May 2015 - 5 6 - Brevard Live May 2015 Contents May 2015 FEATURES BLUES LEGEND JOHN MAYALL BREVARD LIVE MUSIC AWARDS At age 82 John Mayall looks back at the Columns Support your favorite local bands and life of one of England’s greatest blues Charles Van Riper musicians by filling out the Nomination legends. His group “The Bluesbreakers” 22 Political Satire Ballot on page 8 and mail it to our P.O. launched the career of Eric Clapton, Pe- Box. Be a part of our “local Grammys.” ter Green, Mick Fleetwood and Mick Calendars Page 9 Taylor. Live Entertainment, Page 19 25 Concerts, Festivals INTERVIEW WITH DEREK TRUCKS BL editor John Leach didn’t just have the INTERVIEW W/ AUSTIN JENCKES Outta Space pleasure to attend the Tedeschi Trucks America was first introduced to Jenckes 30 by Jared Campbell Band concert at the King Center, he also when he appeared on the second episode interviewed Derek Trucks prior to the of season 5 of The Voice when he was Local Download show. He spoke of his Florida roots, his chosen by both Ceelo Green and Blake 33 Chatter About The early years, and the people and places Shelton to be on their teams. Matt Bretz Local Music Scene that have influenced him along the way. caught him at the Lagoonfest. Page 13 Page 20 Flori-duh! 36 by Charles Knight EARL’S FEST TRAVIS MAC For the 8th year Earl’s Hideaway in Se- If you want to learn about the business The Dope Doctor bastian will present another unforget- of being a DJ, Travis Mac should be 38 Luis Delgado, CAP table festival of music on Memorial Day your poster-boy! From working a day Weekend featuring an incredible line-up job as a clerk at Ron Jon’s to one of the Knights After Night of talent and national performers. Blues most prominent clubs in South Florida, Hot spots, events, and Southern Rock fans, this is a treat! Travis Mac knows how to do it. 44 by Charles & Lissa Page 15 Page 35 Brevard Live May 2015 - 7 8 - Brevard Live May 2015 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most BREVARD LIVE MAGAZINE popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 24 years. 12th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards PUBLISHER Monday, August 3rd, 2015, 6-9pm, Gleason Performing Arts Center EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Heike Clarke hile the show is still several months that were nominated on our website SALES MANAGER Waway, it’s time to nominate your fa- where you can start voting for your ASSISTANT EDITOR vorite local musicians and bands to com- favorites - www.BrevardLive.com. The John Leach pete in Brevard’s most entertaining popu- voting phase will last until July 10th. larity contest of the year, the 12th annual That’s when the final results will be ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle Brevard Live Music Awards. Just fill out processed - and kept a secret until Au- the nomination ballot on page 8 and mail gust 3rd when we will reveal the winner MUSIC WRITERS it to Brevard Live Magazine/BMAs, P.O. in glamorous award ceremony. John Leach Box 1452, Melbourne, FL 32902. The event is produced by Brevard Charles Knight Up to May 31st, you can mail in your Live Magazine with the help of sponsors, Matt Bretz ballot. You can fill out any or every cat- musicians and friends. 100 percent of the Andy Harrington egory on the ballot. Name the ones you proceeds are donated to the Brevard Mu- PHOTOGRAPHY love and follow. Please don’t nominate sic Aid, Inc., a non-profit organization that Chuck Van Riper Sam Smith or Beck because they already helps members of our local music scene in Lissa Knight got their awards on a much bigger stage times of need. this year at the Grammys. We will keep you informed about de- COLUMNISTS There are no music style categories. tails for the upcoming show introducing Chuck Van Riper Charles & Lissa Knight A musician or band can play rock, blues, you to participating talent, and all those Jared Campbell jazz, country, bluegrass, alternative, clas- who will donate time and effort to the sic, and be nominated. Most musicians are cause. Reproduction of any portion of not limited to one style of music anyway. Brevard Live Magazine is strictly It doesn’t matter if your favorite musi- prohibited without the written The Cause: Brevard Music Aid cians play covers or originals, except for permission of the publisher. in those two specific categories. The first three years of the existence ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Who cannot be nominated? All previ- of Brevard Live Music Awards all pro- Phone: (321) 956-9207 ous “Entertainers of the Year”: Absolute ceeds were donated to Joe Realino Me- [email protected] Blue, Taylor Made, Black Eyed Soul, Me- morial Fund, a non-profit organisation dusa, Vintage, Chain Reaction, Open Fire, that helps members of the hospitality in- COMMENTS & LETTERS Spanks, Katty Shack, Brevard Busking dustry in times of need. Then Brevard Live Brevard Live Magazine Coalition and Highway One are retired. Magazine founded the Brevard Music P.O. Box 1452, They achieved the highest accolades the Melbourne, Fl 32902 Aid to help members of our local music Copyright © 2015 BMAs have to offer. community in times of need - musicians as Brevard Live In effort to save trees, we won’t be well as sound people, folks that make our All rights reserved accepting any photo copies. You need to music scene what it is. We are not responsible for photos mail in the ballot printed in the magazine. Since then Brevard Music Aid has or scripts sent to Brevard Live Also, after eleven years of counting bal- helped many musicians. To protect the Magazine. Published photos and lots we have become very good at spotting articles become property of this individual privacy we do not publish the publication. We are not “bogus” votes. So don’t even try, it will names, however, since this is a 501 c 3 responsible for wrongful only benefit Postmaster. non-profit organization all transactions are advertised or canceled venues. ATTENTION: This year’s Brevard public record. The Brevard Live Music Live Music Awards are held a month Awards have been the main fundraising ef- Download a pdf file earlier than the previous years due to fort. Other fundraisers have been the Sam BREVARD new scheduling rules of Florida Tech. Jam and Sigfest. Sigfest donated $1,000 FLORIDA Therefore the nomination ballots have just a month ago. Another thank you goes to be in by May 31st. On June 10th we to Bill Rigg, a music fan who donated LIVE will announce the bands and musicians $200 from a private party to the cause. at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live May 2015 - 9 10 - Brevard Live May 2015 Brevard Lately The 2015 Air & Space Show held at the Melbourne airport in March at- tracted about 250,000 visitors. It was headlined by the U.S. Navy Blue An- gels and also featured full capabili- ties demonstrations of the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, F-16 Viper and the U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey. Photos: Chuck Van Riper A wonderful day at the Brevard Zoo watching Flamingos “strutting their stuff.” The females don’t seem to be impressed but photographer Chuck Van Riper was! Brevard Live May 2015 - 11 Susan Tedeschi autographing copies of Brevard Live Magazine for her fans after the concert. 12 - Brevard Live May 2015 Brevard Lately Pre-Show Interview With DEREK TRUCKS By John Leach loridian, child prodigy, family man and arguably one of the most talented guitar players to ever graceF the planet earth, Derek Trucks is also a gra- cious, humble, and downright funny dude. Brevard Live had the opportunity to speak to Trucks recently. before his show at the King Center last month. He spoke of his Florida roots, his early years, and the people and places that have influenced him along the way. In the early 1990s there was a prominent statewide mu- sic magazine in Florida called JAM Magazine. The maga- photo by Dino Perrucci zine held awards shows for a few years, akin to the Gram- mys, called The Jammy Awards. The events drew statewide BL: So much great music has come out of north Florida public and media attention, and thousands of music fans - The Allman Brothers, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The attended each award gala. In 1992, at the age of twelve, Outlaws, why do you think that is? Is it nature or nurture? Derek Trucks was awarded “Entertainer of the Year”. The DT: (Laughs again, guy laughs all the time…) I think it next year, as required by Jammy protocol, he was on stage must be something in the water! and presented the same honorific to the 1993 winners. Y’know The Allmans started in Jacksonville, there was a little house in Riverside where everybody would get to- BL: You were twelve, thirteen years old at the time. Do you gether to jam. Randall Hall and Artimus Pyle (Lynyrd Sky- have any memories of the Jammy Awards? nyrd) would come over & jam, Reese Wynans (Stevie Ray DT: (Laughing) Oh wow - well you know it’s been a long Vaughn’s Double Trouble) would come around, and Greg time and I was very young and a lot of it is kind of blurry (Allman) would come down with some of that record label but there’s a few things I remember very distinctly, like, I money and help people out.