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Brevard Live April 2018 - 1 2 - Brevard Live April 2018 Brevard Live April 2018 - 3 4 - Brevard Live April 2018 Brevard Live April 2018 - 5 6 - Brevard Live April 2018 Content APRIL 2018 FEATURES MACKENZIE CAREY COMMANDER CODY Steve Keller returns to Brevard Live Columns Magazine as contributing writer and his The piano man with the “Hot Rod Lin- first story is about young talent! He’s Charles Van Riper coln” is back in town playing ast Space known about Mackenzie since she ap- Political Satire Coast Harley Davidson and at Earl’s 22 peared on our local music scene. He Faceblock Hideaway. No problem listening to him now had the opportunity to talk to her as two days in a row. an “American Idol Hopeful.” Calendars Page 11 Page 16 25 Live Entertainment, Concerts, Festivals SONIC WAVE MUSIC FESTIVAL This festival is dedicated to original mu- GOOD BYE, HELLO, THANK YOU Local Download sic and the featured band is The Spring, If you live on the Space Coast and are 30 by Heike Clarke winner of WFIT’s Garage Band Contest. into music, you know spacecoastlive. Other performing bands are The Sky com, the commercial-free website. War- Memories, like the Club, IHB Funk and Lights Out Project ren and Bob who have run it pro bono corner da dee da Page 12 for years will hand it over to Will Stan- 32 ley, a reason for a great party. by Matt Bretz Page 18 MELBOURNE ART FESTIVAL Spotlight On The 34th annual Melbourne Art Festi- by Matt Bretz val takes place in Wickham Park for the SIGFEST 5: COMMUNITY RULES! 35 second year with free admission, free Siggy’s Family had gone all out to put The Dope Doctor parking, free concerts and 255 artists ex- together one of the best fundraisers to Luis A. Delgado, CAP hibiting their work. Mark your calendars benefit Brevard Music Aid and Genesis 38 now, the MAF is held on Saturday and House. This event was driven by com- Sunday, April 28th and 29th. munity spirit, great music and vibes. Florida Art by Bruce Marion Page 15 Page 37 44 Brevard Live April 2018 - 7 8 - Brevard Live April 2018 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most BREVARD LATELY popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 27 years. PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Heike Clarke ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matthew Bretz Bruce Marion Rob Pedrick PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper Charlene Hemmle COVER PHOTO: AMERICAN IDOL - Coverage. (ABC/Guy D’Alema) MACKENZIE CAREY © 2017 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. It was the MOMENT OF THE MONTH Genesis House. Ron didn’t see it com- when Ron Chabot received the David T. ing, and the memory of his late friend COLUMNISTS Sigafoos Award handed out once a year moved our favorite “Budman” to tears. Chuck Van Riper by Amy Sigafoos during Sigfest which It was a community event driven by the Spence Servoss extended Siggy’s family. Luis A. Delgado benefits Brevard Music Aid and The Matthew Bretz Reproduction of any portion of Brevard Live Magazine is strictly prohibited without the written 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 © 2018 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 It was the CONCERT OF THE MONTH scheduled at the SC Seafood Festival BREVARD when Willie Nelson and Family per- had been postponed by three weeks. FLORIDA formed at Space Coast Daily Park in It was worth the wait. The 85-year-old Viera to a sold-out crowd. Due to Wil- legend wowed the 6,000 fans who came LIVE lie having the flu the concert originally to see him. Photo By Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live April 2018 - 9 10 - Brevard Live April 2018 Brevard Live Wednesday, April 4, 8pm, King Center Melbourne Saturday, April 14, SC Wednesday, April 18, 7:30pm King Center, Melbourne The Outlaws Harley Davidson, Palm Bay Sunday, April 15, 2pm Bruce Cockburn or more than 40 years, the South- Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian Fern Rock legends have celebrated ne of Canada’s finest artists, triumphs and endured tragedies to re- Commander Cody OBruce Cockburn has enjoyed an main one of the most influential and illustrious career shaped by politics, best-loved bands of the genre. Today, ommander Cody and His Lost spirituality, and musical diversity. His The Outlaws have returned with new CPlanet Airmen were founded remarkable journey has seen him em- music, new focus and an uncompro- in 1967 by George Frayne IV (alias brace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat mising new mission: It’s about a band Commander Cody) on keyboards and styles while traveling to such faraway of brothers bound together by his- vocals. The band’s style mixed coun- places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozam- tory, harmony and the road. It’s about try, rock‘n’ roll, western swing, rock- bique, and Nepal, and writing memo- a group that respects its own legacy abilly, and jump blues together on a rable songs about his ever-expanding while refusing to be defined by its foundation of boogie-woogie piano. world of wonders. “My job,” he ex- past. But most of all, it’s about pride. They were among first country-rock plains, “is to try and trap the spirit of It’s About Pride was also the title bands to take its cues less from folk- things in the scratches of pen on paper of the band’s acclaimed 2012 album, rock and bluegrass and more from the and the pulling of notes out of metal.” universally hailed as their victorious rowdy barroom country of the Ernest That scratching and pulling has comeback. “Because The Outlaws Tubb and Ray Price style. earned Cockburn high praise as an had been out of the public eye for so The group released their first al- exceptional songwriter and a revered long, it was almost like starting over,” bum in late 1971, Lost in the Ozone, guitarist. His songs of romance, pro- original singer/songwriter/guitarist which yielded its best-known hit, a test, and spiritual discovery are among Henry Paul explains. “But because of cover version of the 1955 song “Hot the best to have emerged from Can- the band’s history, we’re still seeing Rod Lincoln”. The band released sev- ada over the last 40 years. His guitar this as a new chapter. What our fans eral moderately successful albums playing, both acoustic and electric, loved then is what they still love now through the first half of the 1970s. has placed him in the company of the because we are just as good or even After appearing in the Roger Corman world’s top instrumentalists. For his better than we were.” movie Hollywood Boulevard, Frayne many achievements, the Ottawa-born Formed in Tampa in 1972, The disbanded the group in 1976. artist has been honored with 12 Juno Outlaws, known for their triple-guitar The Commander Cody Band re- Awards, an induction into the Canadi- rock attack and three-part country har- located to the east coast in 1997 and an Music Hall of Fame, and a Gover- monies, became one of the first acts has been going strong ever since; still nor General’s Performing Arts Award, signed by Clive Davis to his Arista wowing crowds at festivals, giant bik- and has been made an Officer of the Records. The band’s first three albums er conventions and college concerts in Order of Canada. The Outlaws, Lady In Waiting and the U.S. and Europe. His commitment to growth has Hurry Sundown – featuring rock radio Today the Commander Cody made Bruce Cockburn both an exem- favorites as ‘There Goes Another Love Band features Mark Emerick on gui- plary citizen and a legendary artist Song’, ‘Green Grass & High Tides’, tar, Steve Barbuto on drums, Chris whose prized songbook will be cel- and ‘Freeborn Man’ – would become Olsen on pedal steel, and Randy ebrated for many years to come. This worldwide gold and platinum land- Bramwell on bass. Cody is still trying concert will be held in an intimate set- marks of the Southern Rock era. to pound his piano into submission. ting at the Studio Theatre. Brevard Live April 2018 - 11 Brevard Live Saturday April 14, 3-8pm, Intracoastal Brewing Company The Spring, The Sky Club, IHB Funk, LOP Saturday, April 21, Central Florida Fairgrounds 9.5 FM WFIT presents the Sonic Waves Music Festival Earthday Birthday 25 8on Saturday, April 14th from 3 to 8 pm at Intracoastal or twenty five years WJRR 101.1 radio station has host- Brewing Company in the EGAD district of Eau Gallie. Fed Earthday Birthday in Orlando. It is an all day music Beer and Food vendors plus local non-profit organizations festival with various activities, lots of beer and food and will have booth displays. Featured bands will be WFIT’s some of the Nation’s finest musicians. This year the excit- Garage Band Contest winners - The Spring! They share the ing line up includes Nirvanna (Nirvana Tribute), Dead Girls stage with a few other interesting bands. Academy, Red, Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie’s Brother), The Sky Club is an alternative rock duo based out of Fozzy (Chris Jericho formerly in WWE), 10 Years, Starset, Orlando. Trey Nestor, singer/guitarist/bassist, and Jacob Nonpoint (photo below), All That Remains, Three Days Nestor, drummer/singer, grew up together in Florida while Grace, Seether and headliner Shinedown.