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www.grandrivercellars.com 2 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 VINTAGE OHIO WINE FESTIVAL TheThe DDetailsetails August 2nd & 3rd, 2013 • 1-10pm Each Day VINTAGE OHIO 18 Wineries/25 Wine Samples Lake Metroparks Farmpark, 8800 Euclid Chardon Rd., Kirtland, OH 44094 Ticket info at www.OhioWines.org 800-227-6972 WINE FESTIVAL Schedule of Activities 1:00 - 6:30 Meet the Wine Makers Experience Produced byy Ohio Wine Producers Association Vintage Ohio Wine festival goers who are looking for a unique experience will meet some of Ohio’s most respected wine makers and enjoy light appetizers in an exclusive. In addition, they will sample 10 premium wines—all of which will be gold and silver medal winners, Ohio- grown, and designated as “Ohio Quality Wines” by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. There is a small additional fee of $15 for this special experience. Tickets are available in advance at www.VisitVintageOhio.com or at the Meet the Wine Maker Experience pavilion at Off Gate the festival. (A ticket to the festival itself is also required for admission to the Meet the Wine Price of Makers Experience.) Code: NRCV13 Expires // Wine Education Schedule is the same for both days 2:00, 5:00 Chardonnay is grown in more regions of the world than any other grape. Learn about how “sunlight in a bottle” shines in Ohio. 3:00, 6:00 Cabernet Sauvignon is big in Bordeaux and king in California. Find out how Ohio wine producers succeed with this noble grape. 4:00 Vidal Blanc is a French Hybrid developed for cooler climates. Learn why so many Ohio wine producers are able to make memorable wines from this white grape. Cooking Demonstrations FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 2:30 Chef Amy Ryan – Summer Squash Napoleons 3:30 Chef Kim Taylor – Grilled Chicken Souvlaki w/ Tzatziki Sauce 4:30 Chef Christine Martello – Tortellini Salad w/ Baby Spinach & Artichoke Hearts 5:30 Chef Eric Wells – Pad Thai nd rd 6:30 Chef Christine Martello – Watermelon Cucumber Salad w/ Feta Cheese & Herbs August 2 & 3 , 2013 t 1-10 pm Each Day SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 2:30 Chef Robin Blair – Corn & Pancetta Salad Lake Metroparks Farmpark t 8800 Euclid Chardon Rd. t,JSUMBOE 0) 3:30 Chef Kim Taylor – Grilled Chicken Souvlaki w/ Tzatziki Sauce 4:30 Chef Robin Blair – Roasted Yukon Gold Potato Salad & BBQ Chicken 800-227-6972 t www.VisitVintageOhio.com 5:30 Chef Eric Wells – Participating Wineries Tempura Vegetables w/ Soy Dipping Sauce Rolling hills, and groves of tall oaks provide a tranquil setting for the 6:30 Chef Amy Ryan – Auburn Twin Oaks Winery, Chagrin Falls www.AuburnTwinOaks.com Vintage Ohio Wine Festival, the premier food and wine event of the year. Grilled Pork Tenderloin w/ Peach Salsa Barrel Run Crossing Winery & Vineyard, Rootstown 8JOFSJFTt8JOF4BNQMFTt$PPLJOH4IPXTt4QFDUBDVMBSFriday Fireworks! www.BarrelRunWinery.com Entertainment (See pg.13 in What about Jazz?) Breitenbach Wine Cellars, Dover 3 Stages of Great Live Music: Farmpark Activities During Vintage Ohio www.BreitenbachWine.com Schedule is the same for both days Buckeye Winery, Newark Friday, August 2 IN THE VISITOR CENTER www.BuckeyeWinery.com 4BUVSEBZ "VHVTU Dairy Parlor: 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30 Candlelight Winery, Garrettsville "OEZT-BTU#BOE 3PDL #BOE 4PGU3PDL+B[[3PDL 3# Milking by Hand www.CandlelightWinery.com $PMJO%VTTBVMUT#MVFT1SPKFDU #MVFT %BWF4UFSOFS2VBSUFU +B[[ 5:30 Milking by Machine Debonné Vineyards, Madison www.Debonne.com %PO1FSSZ 4BYBQIPOJTU %BWF:PVOH 1JBOJTU Dairy Processing Room: 'FTUJWVT 1PQ3PDL%BODF 'BDF7BMVF +B[[3PDL3# 1:30, 3:00, 5:00 Cheese Making Deer’s Leap Winery, Geneva www.DeersLeap.com 'PSFDBTU $POUFNQPSBSZ+B[[ 'MPPSXBMLFST 1PQ3PDL'VOL Courtyard: 4:00, 6:00 Ice Cream Making Ferrante Winery, Geneva Barnyard: 1:00-dark Pony Rides $4 'PVS,JOHT5IF2VFFO .PUPXO3PDL )PSOT5IJOHT $POUFNQPSBSZ+B[[ www.FerranteWinery.com -BSSZ4NJUI "DPVTUJD(VJUBS Grand River Cellars, Madison 4UBO.JMMFS $POUFNQPSBSZ+B[[ IN SHEPHERDS FIELD www.GrandRiverCellars.com .JMFT#FZPOE .PUPXO3PDL#MVFT 4VNSBEB 3PDLAO3PMM 5:30 Border Collie Demonstration Grape and Granary, Akron 5IF3PCFSUP0DBTJP'PVOEBUJPO 5IF%JTDPWFSZ#BOE .PUPXO3# INDOOR ARENA www.GrapeAndGranary.com 1SFTFOUT"IJOBNB -BUJO+B[[ 3:00, 4:30, 6:30 Light Horse Demonstration It’s Your Winery, Akron 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00 www.ItsYourWinery.com Well Bred Shed Animal Encounter Klingshirn Winery, Avon Lake PLANT SCIENCE CENTER www.KlingshirnWine.com An Experience for All Your Senses 4:00, 6:00 Scratch and Sniff Garden Tour Maize Valley Winery, Hartville 2:00 Hydroponics Garden Tour www.MaizeValleyWinery.com Old Firehouse Winery, Geneva-on-the-Lake 3:00, 5:00 Vineyard Tours www.OldFirehouseWinery.com Old Mill Winery, Geneva IN CHILDREN’S AREA www.TheOldMillWinery.com 3:00 - 7:00 Face Painting The Winery at Spring Hill, Geneva 3:00 - 9:00 Balloon Twisting with www.TheWineryAtSpringhill.com Swifty the Clown Valley Vineyards, Morrow 1:00 - 9:45 Meet Farm Animals www.ValleyVineyards.com Vinoklet Winery, Cincinnati www.VinokletWines.com July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 3 We would like to thank all of our sponsors and encourage our readers to patronize the fi ne ..... 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ENTERTAINMENT “ ” Fri. July 19 • 7-10 Featuring Hunter 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! with special guest, YOU Deer’s Leap Saturday, July 20th “ ” The Shower Choir Harpersfield Winery Sun. July 21 • 2:30-5:30 7:30 til 10:00 Winery at Spring Hill 25+ years providing mobile DJ & Emcee Friday, July 26th Fri. Aug. 2 • 7-10 services plus 15 years Graphic Design radio experience! Fowler's Mill Linde Graphics Co. • (440) 951-2468 Deer’s Leap Fun, Affordable, 7:00 PM 2KGraphics • (440) 344-8535 Professional, Reliable, Sun. Aug. 4 • 2:30-5:30 Experienced! Please Note: Views and opinions expressed in articles submitted for print are Friday, August 2nd not necessarily the opinions of the North Coast VOICE staff or its sponsors. Winery at Spring Hill Chardon Square Gazebo Advertisers assume responsibility for the content of their ads. Some 2013 weddings dates still The entire contents of the North Coast VOICE are copyright 2012 by the 7:00 til 9:00 North Coast VOICE. Under no circumstance will any portion of this publica- available and now booking for 2014. All Beatles second set tion be reproduced, including using electronic systems without permission Also available for nightclubs, resorts, of the publishers of the North Coast VOICE. The North Coast VOICE is not affi liated with any other publication. campgrounds, fundraising Saturday, August 10th & corporate events, class reunions, MAILING ADDRESS Hooley House - Brooklyn North Coast VOICE Magazine birthday parties and more! P.O. Box 118 • Geneva, Ohio 44041 9:30 til Midnight Phone: (440) 415-0999 E-Mail: [email protected] Abbey Rodeo is now on Facebook! For Booking Call Call 440-813-3336 330-889-0088 Friend Hunter NCEDJ on Facebook www.Abbeyrodeo.com 4 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 Multi-Cultural Festival
Returns for Third Year By Carol Johnson, ADDA Board Member Ethnic food, beer garden, a Hawaiian wedding ceremony, the Light of Day Band, Lost Sheep Band, chalk art competition, cornhole, a puzzle leading to a grand prize, a variety of merchandise and cultural exhibits -- all will be featured at the third annual Multi-Cultural Festival, sponsored by the Ashtabula Downtown Development Association (ADDA). This year’s festival will take place Saturday, July 27, from noon to 9 p.m., and Sunday, July 28, from noon to 6 p.m. in Lance Corporal Kevin M. Cornelius Park.
One of the more unique festival highlights will be the opportunity to get married or renew your vows in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony. The ceremony and renewals are scheduled for Saturday, July 27th during the time period from 4:30 to 6 p.m. To get more information, or to schedule a ceremony or renewal, contact Len Jury at [email protected] or phone 440-964-2361 or 216-440-9019.
To kick off the festival, there will be a performance by jazz pianist Bill Dobbins Friday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. A multi-cultural parade will take place on Saturday, July 27, from 1 to 2 p.m. Ten windows have been decorated in a culture theme, and there will be 1000 passports given out at the event with a phrase puzzle to solve. The fi rst 300 puzzles solved will get a free water bottle or bracelet and then will be entered into a grand prize drawing.
There will be a variety of merchandise and services, including: Beach glass jewelry Handmade crafts by Columbian artists Bath/ beauty, massage products Herbal products by Maria Hungarian pastries by Kati Jewelry, Sunglasses Hair braiding Face painting
There will be 20 sidewalk spaces available at $5 per square for a chalk art competition for 17 and under age groups. The grand prize will be a two-hour limo ride from Ducro Limousine Services. Second place will be two adventure zone passes. The ethnic food will include Jamaican jerk chicken, oxtail, fi sh, curry chicken patties, curry goat, stew, Mexican food (Truck: Chipotle curly fries), Puerto Rican cuisine (Alcapurrias, rellenos, potato balk, pastelillos, tropical beverages), Hawaiian food, Vegan food, sausages of the world, pulled pork. Other offerings will include sausage and ribs, kettle corn, hot dogs, burgers, fries, veggies, chicken, funnel fries, nachos, chips, lemonade and iced tea. July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 5 Now Open
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Gift Certificates MAKE GREAT %.*/9 gifts! PATIO Vintage Ohio -- one of summer’s DINING! ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment Fri & Sat: 7-11pm most fun fi lled events Sunday Open Mic 4:30-7:30pm 4HURS *ULY %THAN ,EGERÏ Happy 23rd Birthday Katie!!! For wine lovers in this part of the country, the fi rst Friday and Saturday of August has been noted on their calendars as THE time to celebrate, meet family and friends, and enjoy the &RI *ULY %RNEST 4 "AND Home of the Original offerings of some of Ohio’s fi nest wineries. 3AT *ULY "ACONCAKE Vintage Ohio is an annual event with 3 stages of music, twenty or more wineries, dozens %NJOY THE SPECIALTY BURGER EVERY MONTHWineburger! Sun, July 21: Open mic w/Susie Hagan of craft vendors, some great food [easy to enjoy festival food as well as a selection of gourmet Thurs, July 25: Melissa Harvey /PEN -IC 7ED s Food Truck fare], a bit of education and lots more --- but mostly it is just FUN. Hosted by Susie Hagan Vintage, the ‘granddaddy of all Ohio outdoor festivals,’ was created to introduce the ‘new &RI *ULY !LAN 'REENE "AND generation’ of Ohio wines to a general public which had not yet discovered the breadth and depth Sat, July 27: Castaways Join us for of what was being produced in the early 1990’s. Although it was not a ‘white table cloth’ event, 3UN *ULY /PEN MIC W%VERGREEN it did --- and does -- showcase our Rieslings, Chardonnays and Cabs, this year again in our Thurs, Aug 1: Jim & Rob Winery Hours 403 S. Broadway Kitchen Hours ‘Meet the Winemaker Experience.’ However, since most of the world drinks ‘sweet’ [about 80% Mon-Thur 3-9pm -ON 4HUR of all wines sold in the US have a hint -- or more of residual sugar] -- and the fastest growing Fri, Aug 2: Incahootz Fri: 3-Midnight Geneva Fri: 4-10pm Sat: Noon-Midnight 440.466.5560 Sat: Noon-10pm segment on grocery shelves includes Moscato under many labels -- Vintage also offers a huge Sun: Noon-9pm Reservations not needed 3UN .OON PM 3AT !UG 3TONE 2IVER "AND but always a good idea! selection of those styles too. There is truly a wine to appeal to every style of palate. Sun, Aug 4: Open mic w/Jimmy Ales www.theoldmillwinery.com The festival was always promoted as: a way to learn about wines in a non intimidating environment -- and unlike when you select a bottle off a retail shelf, a place to meet our winemakers face to face. Unlike many other events of its type, it also focused on offering every wine poured on the fi eld for sale to go -- both so that the memories of the event could be replicated on a back deck DEERR’S LEAPP WINERYI one future day --and/ or to serve on the dining room table with a great meal at home. Full Bar • 27 different Beers! Steak & Seafood Restaurant But with all that said, Vintage too can just be described as a fun fi lled event where thousands of folks come to enjoy the spectacular beauty of the Farmpark, sit at colorful tables Tasting Room FFullu Restaurant under sunny skies and towering oak trees, sip some lovely wines be they very dry or luscious Open Every Day!y! 111:30-9 Daily! and sweet, watch a great Friday fi reworks display -- and re connect with those who came along to enjoy their time together. MONDAY: MUSIC Mexican Monday 75¢ Tacos Wed. July 17: Tom Todd WEDS - SAT ALL SUMMER! Half price Margaritas 5-7 Fri. July 19: Take II WEDNESDAY: 35¢ Wings Sat. July 20: Sam and Gary -AIN 3TREET s 0ERRY 6ILLAGE ,OCATED AT THE 2AILROAD 4RACKS ON .ARROWS 2D THURSDAY: Pasta Bar! Sun. July 21: D.J. Trenda Jones 440-259-5077 Wed. July 24: 732 4HURS *ULY TH EVERY SUNDAY Thur. July 25: Beach House Band Fri. July 26: First Class Trio Ladies Spa Night! BBQ SUNDAY Sat. July 27: Legacy 3PA SERVICES PROVIDED BY "ELLA ,UCA Sun. July 28: Sam and Gary 3ALON #OST PP )NCLUDES !PPETIZERS Live Entertainment GRILLED SWEET CORN YOUR &IRST 'LASS OF 7INE Wed. July 31: Chad Hoffman $* *IMMY 0EPP & CHICKEN OR 0LEASE CALL TO MAKE A RESERVATION Fri. Aug. 2: Take II Coming Friday, Aug. 2nd "UCAR 4UREK $UO RIBS $4.99 Sat. Aug. 3: InCahootz &RANK $EAN AND -ORE WITH $AMION AND 3COTT ,ARRY 3MITH $INNER AND SHOW PP 0REPAY EVENT LIMITED 1520 Harpersfield Road • Geveva • 440-466-1248 SEATING -AKE YOUR RESERVATION -IKE 7OJITILA ,ISA 'ENEVA %XIT OFF ) 3 ON 32 s MILE Hours: 7EDNESDAY 4HURSDAY PM (OURS 3UN 4HURS PM s &RI 3AT PM &RIDAY 3ATURDAY .OON PM www.deersleapwine.com 6 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 Buccia Vineyard Winery, Bed & Breakfast 518 Gore Rd. • Conneaut 440-593-5976
Sunshine = Wine on the patio! Join us for Corn Hole & Horse Shoes! SUMMER EVENTS! Aug. 17: Beef Roast Sept 7: Pig Roast All require reservations Bread & Cheese Plates or bring your own snacks! 10am-6pm Mon-Thurs later on Friday & Saturday • Closed Sunday www.bucciavineyard.com
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Fifth Annual Kent Blues Fest Downtown Kent, July 19-20 The fi fth annual Kent Blues Fest will take place on July 19th and 20th, and will feature free, live entertainment at 17 venues in downtown Kent. Some of the artists performing are Walkin’ Cane, Blue Lunch, Colin John, Memphis Cradle, the Wallace Coleman Band, the Wanda Hunt Band and many more. The kickoff concert will feature the Brighter Side Band at Acorn Alley Plaza from 5:15-8 p.m. on Friday, July 19. “This year’s event is bigger and better than ever,” says Mike Beder, owner of the Water Street Tavern. “The community has really embraced the Blues Fest as a great annual tradition.” Grammy-nominated guitarist Tab Benoit will headline the show at the Kent Stage on Saturday, July 20th, at 8 p.m. Benoit is a past winner of the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award and a committed environmental activist. (For more information on performers, locations and times visit, www.kentbluesfest.com. To purchase Tab Benoit tickets, visit www.kentstage.org.)
Schedule Friday (free shows!) Guy Pernetti: 6pm Roger Hoover: 8pm at Water St. Tavern Acorn Alley Plaza Kickoff Concert Humbucker Blues: 8pm – 11pm Zydeco Kings Duo: 5pm – 7:30pm The Brighter Side Band: 5:15pm – 8pm Panini’s Bar and Grill The Bluestones: 7pm – 10pm (rooftop) 157 Lounge Memphis Cradle: 6:30 – 9:30pm Armstrong Bearcat Band: Hoseff: 7pm – 9:30pm at Bar 145 The Pub 9pm – 11pm Colin John: 6 – 7pm Jon Mosey: 5pm – 7pm Zephyr Pub Long Tall Deb with the Werewolves of Alabama Jim Dotson: 10pm – Midnight Ian Penter: 5pm – 7:30px featuring Colin John: 8 – 10pm at Brewhouse Pub Pufferbelly Mike Lenz: 8:30pm – 11:30px Wallace Coleman Band: 8pm – 11pm at Dominick’s Austin Walkin’ Cane: 5:30pm – 8:30 pm Wanda Hunt Band: 9pm – 1am at Kent Stage Ray’s Place Saturday, July 20 Why Not Mike?: 8pm – 9pm Paul Borger: 7pm – 9pm The Kent Stage The Numbers Band: 9:30pm – Midnight Blue Lunch: 9:30pm – 12:30am 175 East Main St. The Loft Tree City Coffee & Pastry Tab Benoit 8pm Rachel & the Beatnik Playboys: Bit-a-Honey: 8pm – 11am at Mugs Tickets sales at 6pm – 9pm The Juke Hounds: 8pm – 11pm www.kentstage.org Ohio Music Shop Venice Café
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Evidence of that consistency and adaptability is found in LA FUTURA, released in September 2012, their fi rst studio album in nine years. Produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F Gibbons, it refl ects the solid blues inspiration that has powered the band since the very beginning with a contemporary approach that underscores the group’s inclination to experiment and explore new sonic Sun. vistas. ZZ TOP’s music is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful and 100% Texas American in derivation - the band’s support for the blues is unwavering both as interpreters of the music and preservers of its July 28 legacy. It was ZZ TOP that celebrated “founding father” Muddy Waters by turning a piece of scrap timber than had fallen from his sharecropper’s Open Mic shack into a beautiful guitar, dubbed the “Muddywood.” This totem was sent on tour as a fundraising focus for The Delta Blues Museum in Night @ Clarksdale, Mississippi, site of Robert Johnson’s famed “Crossroads” encounter with the devil. ZZ TOP’s support and link to the blues remains is rock solid as the music they continue to play. They have sold millions of records over the course of their career, have been offi cially designated as Old Mill Heroes of The State of Texas, have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms and are true rock icons but, against all odds, they’re really Winery just doing what they’ve always done. They’re real and they’re surreal and they’re ZZ TOP. More info: www.zztop.com 4:30-7:30 Reserved Tickets $85, $65, $55, $42.50, $35 General Admission $25 Tickets are on sale now and available at www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations , charge by phone (800)-745-3000 Mitch 216-513-0529 “Bobby Blue Bland” R.I.P. Jennifer 440-463-3951 A true legend, the great blues singer Bobby “Blue” Bland passed away on Sunday, June 23, at the age of 83 years, his death due to For future shows and complications from an ongoing illness. Bland died in his Memphis, Tennessee home surrounded by family. booking opportunities visit Bland’s smooth-as-silk vocal style successfully bridged the blues and R&B era of the 1950s and the soul era of the 1960s with a number of hit singles like “Turn On Your Love Light” and “Further On Up The Road.” Along the way, Bland would infl uence scores of imitators and www.facebook.com/ followers, including great soul singers like Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, rockers like Van Morrison and Eric Clapton, and a generation of blues evergreen.acoustic.music singers. A contemporary of fellow blues legend B.B. King, Bland served as the guitarist’s valet and driver for a while before launching his career with singles for labels like Chess, Modern, and Duke Records, none of which sold particularly well. After a brief OPEN FRI. 4-12 stint in the Army, Bland returned to Duke SAT. 2-12 • SUN. 2-9 Records where he began his string of hits, as well as classic albums like 1961’s Two Steps From The Blues and 1963’s Call On Me. When Duke was sold to ABC Music on our patio every Dunhill, Bland’s contract was part of the TRY OUR deal, and he continued recorded for the PERCH Weekend! Best place to watch label and its successor, MCA Records, PANINIS the sunset on the Lake! well into the 1970s. Bland found a modicum of Sat, July 20...... Ernest T. Band...... 8:00 mainstream success during the 1970s to go along with his R&B chart domination, Sun, July 21.....Kristine Jackson scoring a Top 50 hit with “This Time I’m Gone For Good” from his 1974 & KJ Blues Band...... 4:30 album Dreamer. During the 1970s the Fri, July 26...... Rachel Brown and singer reunited with King and the two artists would become one of the most popular touring acts of the 1970s and early ‘80s. The musical partnership resulted in a pair of critically-acclaimed mid- The Beatnik Playboys..8:00 1970s releases,Together For The First Time...Live (1974) and Together Again...Live (1976), both of which were Top 10 R&B chart hits (the fi rst album also hitting #43 on the pop chart). Sat, July 27...... Silver String Band...... 7:30 During the 1980s, Bland landed on Mississippi’s Malaco Records label, where he would stay for Sun, July 28.....Becky Boyd Trio...... 4:30 the rest of his career, the singer delivering some of his best work on albums like Members Only and First Class Blues. Bland continued to tour, both solo and with King, through the late 1980s Sat, Aug 3...... Bobbiedazzler...... 8:00 and well into the 2000s until health problems took him off the road in 2011. A well-respected elder statesman of the blues, Bobby “Blue” Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in Sun, Aug 4...... Spoon Too Soon...... 5:00 1981 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Capping off an amazing career that spanned seven decades, Bland received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Bland’s 6827 Lake Road West • Geneva • 440-466-9127 infl uence on blues, rock, and soul music cannot be overestimated, and he will be missed. 2-1/2 miles west of Rt. 534 and Geneva State Park Corner of County Line Rd. and Lake Road West. July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 9 Road Trip for Festivals! FESTIVAL LATINO (Admission is Free) When: August 10 & 11, 2013 from 11am - 8pm Location: Columbus, Ohio (Genoa Park by COSI) Phone: 614-645-3800 or 614-469-1045 This celebration of Latin American culture is the largest Hispanic/Latino event in Ohio! Celebrate Latin culture to the music of Salsa, Mambo, Flamenco, Merengue and Conjunto by some of the fi nest national and international Latino artists. Presentations also include traditional ballroom dancing and those brave enough can partake in a dance class to learn to Tango. Traditional Latin cuisines and festival fare are served and a marketplace provides cultural pottery, jewelry, arts and crafts. In addition, hands-on children’s workshops are offered. PARADE OF THE HILLS Open: August 14 - 17, 2013 Location: Nelsonville, OH Phone: 740-753-3525 This annual event will be featuring a Rocky Western tent sale. The Nelsonville Rotary will have a chuckwagon food booth, and the Nelsonville Chamber of Commerce will have an old time western photo booth for children. The event will also feature a tractor pull for children ages 12 and under.
PEMBERVILLE FR EE FAIR Now Available on iTunes (Admission is Free) Open: August 14 - 17, 2013 Location: Memorial Park, on the corner of Front and College Streets, Pemberville, Ohio 43450 Phone: 419-287-3832 This is one of the last free fairs in Ohio, includes two parades and offers the usual mix of animals, fl owers, produce, quilts, needlework, bingo, hobbies, and yummy food, along with a horse pull, a kiddie tractor pull, a youth talent show, and a fun run. Each year, closely-guarded plans for kiddie costumes and fl oats (which get more and more creative) start far in advance of the parade date and winners not only get a small purse, they get bragging rights until the next year’s parade. BUCYRUS BRATWUR ST FESTIVAL (Admission is Free) When: August 15 - 17, 2013 Location: Downtown Bucyrus, Ohio Phone: 419-562-BRAT or 419-562-0720 or toll free 866-562-0720 www.RobCovertMusic.com This festival packs in three days of family-fun and more than 27 tons of the fi nest sausage cooking over open pits. The festival celebrates this small Ohio town’s German heritage with more than just bratwurst. It has more than 100 more delicious foods made from local family recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation dating back to “the old country.” FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTIO N NO EVENT (Admission is Free) When: August 15 - 18, 2013 TOO BIG OR Location: Little Italy’s Murray Hill neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio SMALL! Phone: 216-421-2995 at Whether you’re Italian or not, this festival is popular for all walks of life. There is a traditional religious processional through the ethnic neighborhood streets following a mass at the church. Crowds are enormous as it seems all of northeast Ohio ascends on this little Italian-American Bilicic’s Busy Mart community making it “Big Italy” if only for a few days. There is plenty of music, dancing, artwork, rides, and yes, great food. The area defi nitely is fi lled with an “old-world” atmosphere. The four-day celebration draws crowds of more than 100,000 annually. How can that many Call us or Stop in for all your people be wrong? If you’re looking for old-world charm, culinary delight and beautiful cityscape, this is the place to see. Special Event & Party Needs! FESTIVAL OF NATIONS (Admission i s Free) When: August 17, 2013 from 2pm - 8pm Tents Tables Where: Between the Miami River Levee and back of visitor seating of THS Memorial Stadium in Troy in Troy, Ohio Phone: 937-657-6539 There’s no need to travel the world this summer because the world is traveling to Troy, Ohio’s Chairs Keg Coolers Festival of Nations. Experience the fascinating cultures from around the globe through Food – Dance – Music – Storytelling – Interactive Displays – Arts & Crafts. This international melting pot of fun Authorized Dealer and intrigue is a celebration for all ages and offered for FREE! Hand Crafted Wax Chips, Shaped Like Leaves and Flowers Available in a Wide Variety This year’s featured country will be Germany! OF &RAGRANCES AND !SSORTED "URNERS /NE OUNCE "OX #OVERS SQ FT FOR For the kids, there’s face painting, games and activities. (OURS IN THE "URNER OR 9EARS IN A $ISH &OR $IRECT $ROP 3HIPMENTS And everyone will enjoy getting back to their roots by ,OG ON TO WWW"ILICICS3CENTCHIPS$IRECTCOM visiting a display from their native countries, browsing the cultural souvenirs, and a food court offering local restaurants the opportunity to serve cuisine generic to 2T ) s (ARPERSFIELD their native countries, including mouthwatering Italian, Phone: 440.466.9111 yummy Japanese, tantalizing German and much, much Fax: 440.466.7222 more. /PEN -ON 3AT AM PM s 3UN AM PM Visit ohiotraveler.com to print and map all of these events. 10 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 OPEN DAILY 7am-2:30am! FEATURING DAILY Open at 7am for Breakfast and cooking until 11pm, fryer may SPECIALS be available later. Most items available for take-out, too! Happy Hour 1-9pm 95¢ Canned Beer & Well Drinks Mon.-Thurs. (Holidays Excluded) DJ/KARAOKE EVERY FRI. & SAT. 8 PM-2 AM NO BOOKS! NO NUMBERS! NO HASSLES! Saturday, July 20th ÛiÀÌÊ"«iÀ>ÌÊUÊ9-Midnight Celebrate our Christmas In July Party. DJ and Karaoke to follow til 2am. Bring school supplies or a cash donation for our local elementary school. Dress in your worst! The ugliest Christmas top wins a prize! We are collecting school supplies and cash donations all month long for our local elementary school SEND US AN EMAIL TO RECEIVE OUR MAILINGS! Photo-of-the-Month Contest ALL PHOTOS Submit photos from High Tide or High Tide Events. GO ON OUR WEBSITE! Monthly winner gets a gift certificate for A DOZEN WINGS! Drop off a memory stick, cd, most camera memory cards or email to [email protected]! www.HighTideTavern.com Facebook & [email protected] 5504 Lake Road s On the Strip s Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio s (440) 466-7990
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July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 11 S & TRAILS LEAD TO THE GRAND RIVER D OPEN DAILY A INCLUDING HOLIDAYS! MANOR By Pete Roche 1153 Mechanicsville Rd. Eric Clapton FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Slowhand ATM Mastercard VISA ® NETWORK ® Author David Bowling ALL RO 'ENEVA s It’s late in the evening…you’re wondering what book to read. “Guitar god” is a phrase you hear bandied about loosely in articles describing the six-string ->ÌÕÀ`>Þ]ÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÎÊUÊ£ prowess of many rock and roll axe men. But there’s only one who’s been repeatedly referred to as THE “God.” Ernest T Band Record afi cionado journalist David Bowling does the unthinkable in the preface of his new Eric Clapton FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Slowhand by pondering whether the world truly needs another book on the celebrated English ¢ guitarist. While researching for his fact-packed tome, Tuesdays: 40 Boneless & JUMBO Wings Bowling turned up 10,400,000 Clapton-related hits on Google and over 650 previous books about the Live Acoustic Music with Jimmy & Friends 6:30 Stratocaster master for sale on Amazon. But few, if any, boast the streamlined completeness of FAQ. Which is precisely the concept underlying Thurs. BBQ Bike Night all of the FAQs available in the new (but rapidly expanding) series from Hal Leonard’s Backbeat imprint (400 pages). Series editor Robert Rodriguez—who ,LÃÊUÊ*Õi`Ê*ÀÊUÊ ÛiÊ ÕÃVÊ>ÊÇ£ä assembled excellent FAQs on The Beatles—recruited other critics, musicologists, and experts to pen similar Watch NASCAR & Indians FOOD & DRINK entries on other musical acts (KISS, Pink Floyd, The on Our Big Screens! SPECIALS! Doors, Neil Young), television icons (Three Stooges, Lucille Ball) and movie franchises (Star Trek, James Friday Nite Fish Fry! FREE JUKEBOX! Bond). Each author sifts through the wealth of information on his or her subject, separates wheat from chaff, and distills the results into a single portable volume. The resulting compendiums contain only the most pertinent, crucial, and verifi able data, their pages providing answers to the questions most often asked about the entertainer pictured on the cover. Thus, Bowling’s fi rst full-length work might be regarded the defi nitive Cliff’s Notes on Clapton—the one you’d want to grab off the shelf to prepare for a college exam on the man and his music. The background history, career highlights, and discography are laid out smoothly—in rough chronological order—sans the clutter, minutiae, and tabloid fodder so common among today’s celebrity biographies. What you already knew about Clapton is reinforced. The stuff you didn’t will sink in effortlessly. The fi rst two-thirds of the book are devoted to Clapton’s personal and professional affi liations, from mentors and family members to band mates and sidemen. Bowling mentions just about everyone who ever worked with Eric, inspired him, hired him or otherwise crossed paths with Britain’s most famous bluesman, and by the time the reader is hip-deep in Cream it becomes apparent how closely—and signifi cantly—Britain’s most notable musicians (Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Mick Fleetwood, Mike Taylor) could be linked together in an informal game of Six Degrees of Eric Clapton. The author even prefaces Clapton’s early years with synopses of the blues movements (Mississippi Delta and Chicago Blues) that would so profoundly impact his style, and the men (and woman) who most infl uenced his chops, and whose work he’d cover throughout his career: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Memphis Millie. We learn of Eric’s unorthodox upbringing. The product of a short-lived dalliance between his teenage mom and a Canadian serviceman, Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister. He was indoctrinated by music vis-à-vis a wealthy friend’s record collection (“Hound Dog,” etc.) and received his fi rst guitar at age thirteen. The acquisition of an Electric Double Cutaway (a knockoff of a Gibson ES-335) steeled his resolve to master the instrument, and by sixteen he was busking clubs with Dave Brock and gigging with The Roosters and Casey Jones & The Engineers. Of course, Clapton became a very public fi gure upon replacing Top Topham in The Yardbirds, whose smash hit “For Your Love” did little to motivate the guitarist’s interest in producing bubblegum pop-rock. He was able to stretch out more as part of John Mayall’s
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By Don Perry Lessons Jazz and More at Vintage Ohio 2013 Beginner In September of 2011, my wife Charleen and I had the pleasure of visiting the Temecula Valley wine region, in southern California. to As we sampled Cabernets, Merlots and Malbecs at Vindemia Vineyard, we were talking with a local couple and they asked where we were Advanced from. We told them that we lived in Northeastern Ohio, near Cleveland. They told us that they had once been to the area and had attended a wonderful wine festival. I smiled and said “Vintage Ohio”, and they said yes, that’s it! Here we were 2,400 miles from home, in one of California’s most beautiful wine regions, talking about Vintage Ohio, How cool is that!! This just goes to show that the efforts of the Ohio Wine Producers Association are not going unnoticed. The Lake Farmpark gates will open upon Vintage Ohio 2013 on Friday, August 2nd at 1 pm. The 2-day festival, now in its 19th year will host Electric 20 different wineries from across the state. Over 70 other exhibits and vendors will be on hand for your enjoyment, including restaurants, gourmet and foods, and artisans. Acoustic Although Vintage Ohio is recognized across the country as a premier wine festival, featuring some of the area’s fi nest live music, I prefer to think of it as a premier music festival, featuring some of the regions fi nest wine makers. Live entertainment was a key component of the very fi rst festival in 1995 and continues to be so, as the event has grown and changed. The Let me teach you inaugural year featured 1 classical music stage, with the Cleveland Orchestra among the featured groups. But just as a variety of wines appeal to a broader audience, so do a variety of musical styles, therefore, the following year a second stage was added. how to make music! From 96 until recently, one stage has featured the music of Northeast Ohio’s most widely recognized jazz ensembles, while the second has featured area blues, R&B and classic rock groups. This musical format and 2-stage setup offers festival patrons a wider range of musical choices and a more festive atmosphere. The live entertainment begins when the gates open at 1 pm and continues until 9:30 pm. In order to appeal to an even broader audience, a 3rd stage area was added 4 years ago, in a shaded area away from the center of activity to Schedule your offer a softer more relaxing atmosphere to patrons who perhaps wish to discuss their wine preferences, while solo artists provide a more soothing lesson today! style of music. New this year is the Jazz Stage at the Meet the Winemaker Pavilion. Although this area is reserved for special ticket holders throughout My 30 years of experience can help the day, the pavilion will open at 7:30 both nights, to all festival attendees for the live jazz. Friday evening the pavilion stage will be Forecast one of Cleveland’s fi nest and most recognized contemporary jazz groups. On Saturday evening the Pavilion Stage will host The Dave Sterner you reach your musical goals! Quartet, another outstanding Cleveland ensemble that infuses fresh new energy into traditional jazz standards. Also new this year is the mixture of musical genres between the 2 main stages. In order to provide a more complete festival experience Call or Text Rick for patrons, both stages will feature a variety of musical acts. The intention is to encourage guests to explore the entire grounds and see all that Vintage Ohio has to offer. We don’t want you to miss a thing! 440-413-0247 Among the impressive list of performers who will grace the main stages of Vintage Ohio are 2 more jazz ensembles that you should add to you’re “must see” list. On Friday evening at 7:30 on Stage 2, The Roberto Ocasio Project will present perhaps the fi nest Latin Jazz Cleveland has to offer. Finally, this next group is among my very favorites of any Fri. group, in any genre in Northeast July 19th Ohio. Vintage Ohio veterans “Horns and Things” will be Harpersfield performing Saturday, on Stage 1 at 4:15. I spoke with my friend J.T. Beef Roast Fri. Lynch just the other day and he 8-12 believes that HAT has performed Aug. 30th every year at Vintage Ohio since Thurs. Conneaut 1996. They have become as much a part of the Cleveland landscape as July 25th Lake Park Vintage Ohio itself. “We may have missed one but I don’t think so.” J.T. said. Willoughby 9-1 Honestly, the opportunity to attend a performance of Horns & Things alone is worth the Gazebo price of festival admission! There is one dilemma though; Face Value will be performing on Stage 2 during the very 7-8:30 Sat. same time slot as HAT, so perhaps the biggest challenge of the day will be to locate the optimum spot on the festival grounds, where you can enjoy both groups equally, at the very same time. Aug. 3rd Friday, August 2nd Saturday, August 3rd Fri. Vintage Ohio Stage 1: 1 – 3:30 pm Sumrada 1 – 3:30 pm Four Kings & The Queen 4:15 – 6:45 pm Horns & Things July 26th 4:15-6:45 4:15 – 6:45 pm Andy’s Last Band 7:30 – 9:45 pm The Discovery Band Ferrante 7:30 – 9:45 pm Festivus Stage 2: Fri. Stage 2: 1 – 3:30 pm 147 Band Winery Aug. 2nd 1 – 3:30 pm Colin Dussalt’s Blues Project 4:15 – 6:45 pm Face Value 4:15 – 6:45 pm Miles Beyond 7:30 – 9:45 pm Floorwalkers 6-9:30 Ferrante 7:30 – 9:45 pm Roberto Ocasio Project Stage 3: Stage 3: 1 – 3:30 pm Dave Young Winery 1 – 3:30 pm Don Perry 4:15 – 6:45 pm Stan Miller 6-9:30 4:15 – 6:45 pm Larry Smith Pavilion Stage: Pavilion Stage: 7:30 – 9:45 pm Dave Sterner Quartett 7:30 – 9:45 pm Forecast For full schedule DonPerrySaxman.com or www.facevaluemusic.com July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 13 ~Continued from page 12
Bluesbreakers and in jam trio The Gland, whose ill-fated European tour forced Clapton to rethink his prospects. After producing a few songs with Steve Winwood in Powerhouse, Eric accepted an offer to join fellow virtuosos Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in Cream. Bowling wades through each Cream album (Fresh Cream, Wheels of Fire, Goodbye), every studio and live track (“Wrapping Paper,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” “Badge,” “Spoonful,” “Tales of Brave Ulysses,” etc.) and all notable gigs—like the legendary concerts (and reunions) at The Fillmore, Royal Albert Hall, and Madison Square Garden. He even reviews Martin Sharp’s psychedelic sleeve art and uncovers the source of the enigmatic 1967 album title Disreali Gears. We go behind the console with producer Felix Pappalardi (Mountain) and engineer Tom Dowd, scribble in notebooks with lyricist Peter Brown, and negotiate album contracts with RSO mogul Robert Stigwood. We bounce through Blind Faith—which reunited Clapton with Winwood—join Eric at a John Lennon concert in Toronto in 1969, and tour with Delaney & Bonnie. We venture to Florida for the making of Derek & The Dominoes, whose fi rst and only proper album yielded the classic “Layla,” and revel in the release of E.C.’s eponymous solo debut. Bowling discusses the string-picker’s growing addictions and broken relationships with kid gloves, confi ning his remarks to their affects on the guitarist’s productivity. He picks favorites (461 Ocean Boulevard, Slowhand, Just One Night) among Eric’s ‘70s output and critiques others: He refers to There’s One in Every Crowd as “mundane,” describes E.C. Was Here as “average,” and writes off 1978’s Backless as being “just a little too mild.” Eric ties the knot with Patti Boyd, gets clean and sober for the ‘80s, and assembles a new backing band for Money and Cigarettes. He turns another corner in ’85, tapping producers Phil Collins and Ted Templeman to give Behind the Sun, August, and Journeyman a modern sheen, and surrounds himself with ace players like synth guru Greg Phillinganes, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Jeff Porcaro—but it’s his Unplugged session at MTV London that reminded everyone of Eric’s brilliance. And though he was on a new label, Clapton’s old handlers at RSO / Polydor cashed in whenever the guitarist crested, fl ooding the market with Best-Ofs and compilations like Timepieces, Chronicles, and The Cream of Eric Clapton. Again, Bowling offers his two cents on each. The FAQ also explores E.C.’s movie scores and songs, beginning with the television program Edge of Darkness and sci-fi blockbuster Back to the Future and winding through the Lethal Weapon fi lms and Rush soundtrack (“Tears in Heaven”). Sifting through the ‘90s-‘00s catalog, Bowling isn’t afraid to say when he thinks a title is mediocre: He says 1998’s Pilgrim “sounded better at the time” and feels Clapton should have performed Me and Mr. Johnson all by his lonesome, without a session band, like Johnson himself. Riding With the King 2000, Reptile 2001, and Clapton 2010 receive high marks, and the 2 CD Live from Madison Square Garden is hailed “an essential listen.” The discography section surveys everything Clapton committed to tape, wax, and CD, including his countless guest appearances—whether credited or not. Almost everyone knows E.C. soloed on The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and popped up on later releases by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison. But did you know he played on Aretha Franklin’s Lady Soul? Or that he recorded with The Crickets, Bobby Whitlock, Freddie King, Stephen Stills, Roger Waters, and Rod Stewart? All the singles, hits, and “misses” are accounted for, replete with dates, labels, and catalog numbers. In the segment “How Many Times Must We Tell the Tale” [from “Forever Man”] Bowling gives capsule summaries of Clapton’s most important gigs and guest appearances. A later chapter inventories Clapton’s instruments and profi les his most famous Fenders, Gibsons, and Gretschs—the Telecasters, Jazzmasters, and Les Pauls. We’re given a lineage of “Blackie,” the axe E.C. made by cannibalizing parts from other Strats and can be seen playing in videos for The Rainbow Concert and The Last Waltz. Bowling also scans Clapton’s acoustic guitars (readers can get acquainted with the Martin 000-42 the maestro used for MTV’s Unplugged special) and reveals what became of them: Some of Eric’s most recognizable guitars fetched between $500-800,000 at charity auctions. Other titles in Backbeat’s FAQ series include The Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Black Sabbath, and U2. The publisher plans on releasing new FAQs for additional Rock and Roll Hall of Famers—like Metallica and Rush—this fall. www.claptonfaq.halleonardbooks.com www.faq.halleonardbooks.com
14 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 Dry Dock $).% ). BAR & GRILL The Ashtabula Lighthouse Restoration and Preservation Society Annual Fish Fry Saturday, July 20, 2 pm – 7 pm it is being held at the Lake /2 #!,, !(%!$ GREAT FOOD, GREAT PEOPLE, #!229 /54 GREAT LIVE MUSIC EVERY Shore Park Main Pavilion, St. Rt 531, Ashtabula. Donation $10 Dinner includes: Fish or shrimp, baked potato or french fries, coleslaw, roll and OTHER SATURDAY! butter and beverage. Music by Bev Newbold. Lots of Raffl es! Tours will also be offered to and through the Ashtabula Lighthouse. All proceeds HAPPY HOUR s 45%3 &2) s s $/-%34)# $2!&4 "/44,%3 go to the restoration and preservation of the Ashtabula Lighthouse. For More information call Deb or Joe 440-224-0750 or email santiana@ Tues Night: 7ING .IGHT ` s PM roadrunner.com $OM $RAFT "EERS PM $INE IN Try our Freshly made Pizza, Fresh Wings The 2013 East Side Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show is Sunday, July 21, from 12:00pm - 5:30pm. Come celebrate summer with a one-of-a-kind with Sauces made Daily, Subs & Daily Specials! craft show featuring over 100 artists and crafters selling local and handmade items. These vendors sell original and eclectic items that range from NEW BIGGER BURGERS on Pretzel Buns! jewelry and candles, to home decor and yard art. The show is being held at the Terry Macklin Entertainment & Event Centre at 6200 Enterprise Now Serving Draft Beer -ILLER ,IGHT "UD ,IGHT Parkway, Solon, OH 44139. Admission is $3.00, and children under 12 are free. There will be a concession stand and full bar on site. A portion of ,ABATTS 'REAT ,AKES #HRISTMAS !LE all the proceeds will go to benefi t the Cleveland Animal Protective League. WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC -IDNIGHT Terra Local farm market will be open each Saturday through October 26th from 10am-2pm on the future home of Pairings Wine and July 24th: The Dudeski’s Culinary Center at the corner of Park and Eagle Street in Geneva. This unique market is the fi rst of its kind in the area, offering a consigned venue July 31st: Dan Powell & April Ely where produce, meat, eggs, honey, syrup, value-added products like jelly and more will be presented for sale in a consolidated format by the team at Terra Local. This style is also a lucrative opportunity for small hobby farmers who may not produce a volume necessary for success at August 7th: Arnel of 4 KIngs a traditional market. Establishing a connection between consumers and farmers is very important to the mission of the organization. Consumers THURSTY THURSDAY PM enjoy the convenience of selecting products from several different farms and paying once. Terra Local accepts cash, check, credit and SNAP $OMESTIC $RAFT "EER ONLY A benefi t payment options. In addition to locally grown foods Terra Local offers an Artisan Market with a selection of local artists and craftsman ,IVE $* +ARAOKE #OUNTRY 2OCK AM offering handmade items such as soap, candles, artwork and furniture. Every other Saturday live music, our patio is Winslow will be performing a FREE SHOW at the 2013 Conneaut Dockfest, taking place at the Conneaut Public Dock, on July 27th starting open, music outside weather permitting at 6 p.m. This will mark Winslow’s fi rst performance in Conneaut since 2010 with Conneaut native Maurice Martin. The 6-piece dubbed July 20th: Marion Avenue “Cleveland’s Best Local Band” teamed up with Grammy-Award Winning Producer Edwin “Tony” Nicholas (Barry White, Mary J Blige, Gerald Levert) and Grammy-Nominated engineer Nick Chahwala (Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Gym Class Heroes) to produce the new album, Left to the August 24th: Marion Avenue 9-1 Right, released March 26th. The album has received features by MSN.com, AOL.com, Relix Magazine, Guitar World Magazine, and Modern Sept 21st: Face Value 9-1 Drummer Magazine. This sound, combined with the groups polished and passionate live show has led them to sharing the stage with many major Sat. Oct. 19th: In Kahootz acts. The album recently has received 15 National television licenses to have music placed with MTV, VH-1, E, The Discovery Networks, E! and Oxygen. Winslow’s unique blend of soul, rock and pop has been described by many members of the press and fans alike as a musical breath 1421 Hubbard Rd. of fresh air. Maurice Martin was a 2002 graduate of Conneaut High School. He served as band captain, choir president, and class president in Madison • 440-983-4028 his years in Conneaut. Following a stint at Kent State University majoring in music, Maurice co-founded the band Winslow. Maurice was voted 4UES 4HUR /PEN AT PM s &RI 3UN AM Cleveland’s Best Vocalist by in the 2010 Cleveland Music Awards and was named one of Ashtabula County’s Top 25 Most Interesting People by Ashtabula Living Magazine. Martin was called a soul singing icon in waiting by Cleveland.com. ~Continued on Page 15 "Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs." Please join us for an extended vacation or just spend a ~Kin Hubbard weekend in the northeastern most portion of the state! We Offer the Personal Service You’ve Missed Lately July 18 - Kelly Miller Circus Lakeview Park 4:30 & 7:30 pm July 20 - Feed Our Community Festival Ramblin Rose Alpaca Farm Root Road • Noon-4pm
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and dessert specials like Pecan Raisin Bread Pudding. All the desserts are homemade - try the Italian specialty canoli or tiramisu, along with the cheesecake - simply delicious! The menu features seven very different eight -ounce ground steak burgers, all named after the place of origin. For instance, the New York burger is topped with pastrami, cole slaw, cheddar, and whole grain mustard. The Ohio is topped with a sausage patty, Amish fried egg and baby Swiss, and a beer- battered onion ring. The Louisiana is topped with Andouille sausage, pepper jack cheese, remoulade sauce and a battered tomato slice. Burgers are served on a grilled pretzel bun with a generous portion of French fries. Fried Calamari is a popular favorite appetizer, served in a giant martini glass. The crab-stuffed mushroom mornay is an excellent way to start off your meal, as are the stuffed banana peppers. The Italian Flatbread is a house specialty, with prosciutto, Genoa salami, and Parma ham. A typical entree would be the Oven Roast Italian Sausage with potatoes, peppers, onions, and Kalamata olives. The menu features Catch of the Day, prepared with Great Lakes beer batter ($15.00) and also a Steak of the Day meal at market price.
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Many of the 9am to 5pm. fi rst settlers had left the craggy, rock-laden eastern seaboard states to farm the rich sandy May 25 thru Sat. July 20 soil of the Lake Erie shore. Over a period Sportsterz • GOTL of seven years, fi fteen families settled on Sept. 7 the land that is known as the South Ridge 3 - 7 Outside!! (present-day State Route #84.) They built Geneva-on-the-Lake along the banks of Cowle’s Creek, named Thurs. July 25 after Noah Cowles, one of the original Recreational Park homesteaders. Fruit orchards abounded, and 5536 Lake Rd. Geneva Pavilion Geneva-on-the-Lake 7 - 8:30pm the little settlement was known as “Eagle Hill”, the site of the fi rst business, a tannery Sponsored by the Sun. July 28 and boot-making shop, as well as the fi rst schoolhouse. In these early years, the South G.O.T.L. Visitors Bureau Ashtabula Ridge was the main road, as the town built Multi-Cultural Festival northward toward the lake. The intersection Call for space reservations of Rt. 84 (then called Center Rd.) and Rt. 440.466.8600 1 - 2:30 534 (then called Harpersfi eld Rd.) became known as “Twin Bridges”, named for the www.visitgenevaonthelake.com www.lostsheepband.com two matching bridges spanning Cowle’s Creek. By the early 1900’s, Geneva had a population of about 3500. The town was thriving, with a handful of churches, two railroads, a bicycle factory, a piano factory, a Metal 2013 Lakefront Wheels works, two banks, two groceries, one dry goods store, two clothing establishments, two FREE hardware stores, three jewelers, two bakeries, two meat markets, two drugstores, a fl our mill, Concerts Summer Concert Series a laundry, a fi rm of funeral directors, the telephone system, the electric light company, and the Geneva Township Park Walter Main Circus Headquarters, home of the famous showman who made his winter quarters Every Tuesday in Geneva. In 1914, Rt. 534 was paved with brick from Geneva to Trumbull. at 7pm Geneva-on-the-Lake In 1920 the building which today contains C- Tavern was constructed. Information on its origin is sparse, but it is believed to have been built as a combination trailer camp/service station (Donations accepted by stopover for weary travelers. Cabins in the back were rented out for the night, and the main passing of donation can) building contained an eatery and a tavern, as well as a small fi reworks store. A business card recovered from that era reads “Barber’s Tavern”- GOOD EATS & GOOD BEER- and lists the Earn a phone as 784, recalling a simpler time when Geneva had three-digit phone numbers. July 23...... Cadillac Lilly, Little Big Band The business changed hands many times over the years between 1920 & 1960, when 65HIRT it was purchased by Irene Long and operated under the name “Rainbow Inn” for the next at 3 thirty-fi ve years. The cabins in the back were torn down, and the gas pumps taken out, but the GOTL Strip July 30...... Erie Heights Brass Ensemble establishment remained a full-scale tavern serving burgers and fi sh dinners. Irene raised her Crawls! four children there, adding the third fl oor with extra bedrooms as her family expanded. In the Aug. 6 ...... Madison Band early 90’s, blues bands would play at the Rainbow Inn once a month and the tiny bar would be 1. The Lake Erie jam-packed. My friend Kathy Brown was raised there and has many happy memories of her Monster Crawl childhood growing up on the corner. Memorial Day Aug. 13...... Young & Blue The food at C-Tavern is delicious, reasonably priced, and the portions are generous. The tavern has a full-service bar and daily drink specials. The bar features local wines from M thru Labor Day Cellars and Harpersfi eld Winery, along with a great beer selection, including imports and micro- 2. Thunder on Aug. 20...... Linda Fundis brews. The restaurant just acquired ten new craft beers on tap, and the brothers have plans for the Strip an outdoor bar. There is a sunny little patio for those who prefer to dine outdoors, and soon Thunder Week “Let Me Entertain You” there will be a wood-fi red brick pizza oven on deck, for specialty pizzas made to order. The 3. atmosphere at C-Tavern is cozy and relaxed, and the staff is friendly, as well as experienced Halloween 2013 and capable. So if you’re looking for a great meal at a reasonable price, served up with some Monster Crawl Classic Country & Showtunes friendly conversation, or just want to unwind over a few cocktails after work, check out the September & corner once called “Twin Bridges”, and visit C-Tavern Smokehouse and Grille. (C-Tavern, 11 October Sponsored by the Geneva-on-the-Lake Visitors Bureau South Ridge Road, Geneva 44041, phone 440-361-4135. Hours Sun. & Mon. 3-10pm, Tues. thru Sat. noon til??) 18 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 By Pete Roche on the Blackmore’s Night Hello Summer! Saybrook Township Park Open Dancer and the Moon 5941 Lake Road West 7-Days-A-Week! K@L9:MD9 c He’s the guitar-wielding iconoclast behind “Smoke on the Water” and “Man on the Silver Mountain,” the Stratocaster scorching rock legend whose work in Deep Purple and Rainbow inspired countless imitators. She’s a blonde bombshell who developed her mesmeric singing 1=
~Continued on Page 28 July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 19 Interview with Shinedown Front man Brent Smith Coming to Jacob’s Pavilion August 13th By Pete Roche Shinedown has accomplished more in twelve years than most bands will in a lifetime. Formed in 2001 by singer Brent Smith and drummer Barry Kerch, the Jacksonville band secured a coveted opening slot with Van Halen in 2004 that drew attention to their debut album Leave a Whisper. With 2005’s Us and Them and 2007’s The Sound of Madness the group notched another batch of Top 5 singles—including the inescapable smash “Second Chance.” Last year’s acclaimed Amaryllis saw the guys headlining the Rock Star Energy Drink Uproar Tour while “Bully” and “Enemies” scored frequent airplay on alternative and mainstream radio. When the seemingly tireless Shinedown aren’t on the road, the quartet can be found in the studio COMING SOON TO writing and recording with Smith and Kerch joined by guitarist Zach Myers and bassist Eric Bass. Most recently, the band surveyed Facebook fans for their all-time favorite songs by other artists and tracked a handful for an acoustic covers EP (and possible forthcoming full-length). Shinedown may have nothing left to prove, having already sold in excess of 6 million records, notched 17 singles, and become next to a household name—but MENTOR! they’re not resting on their laurels. Smith wouldn’t have it. Having developed a nasty predilection for pain pills on the road— and then sugary sweets and booze—the 35-year old vocalist is now on a fi tness kick. He dropped 70 pounds, shunned alcohol, and regularly goads his band mates into working out with him backstage and in hotel rooms to the popular “Beachbody” Insanity DVDs. As a result, Smith looks and feels better than ever. He’ll need that extra stamina onstage this summer when Shinedown top-lines Monster Energy Drink’s Carnival of Madness Tour with Skillet, In This Moment, and We As Human. Alt-rock heavyweights, Sevendust, will also appear on several dates subbing for Papa Roach. The traveling circus pitches its tents at Jacobs Pavilion on August 13th. We caught up with Smith during a rare Shinedown respite and enjoyed a twenty-minute phone chat with the songwriter. He sounded humble, grateful, enthusiastic, and reinvigorated by his radical lifestyle change. Smith is—to cop one of his go-to phrases—a super-rad dude who is refreshingly dispossessed of the arrogance and entitlement so common among established rock star singers. He’s earned every ounce of success, takes nothing for granted, and knows Shinedown must keep plugging away to mark more creative and commercial milestones in the future.
NORTH COAST VOICE: We’re looking forward to the Carnival tour. We caught you last year when Uproar swung by Blossom Music Center over the summer. What can fans expect from Shinedown on this year’s package event? BRENT SMITH: Well, for some kids this will be their fi rst real rock show that they go to this summer. We want families to be aware that this is a very family-oriented show. It’s still dangerous, still wild, still a bit of what we call “controlled chaos.” But it’s supposed to be fun, man! It’s not supposed to be weird and evil and awkward and strange and all that kinda stuff! It’s more like this amazing…experience. That’s what it is this year, more than anything. As far as production is concerned on this tour, we’ve all worked together—the bands on this year’s Carnival tour. We’ve never done a full tour, so it’s a major thing for us all to come together and do the Carnival. We talked about doing double stages, and then triple stages—but we just didn’t want to have fi fteen bands on the road. And we didn’t want to make it a long day for the public, either. We just wanted to put the crème of the crop on a main stage and focus on just those bands totally bringing their A-games. As far as Shinedown goes, it’s defi nitely the most massive production we’ve ever built as a band. And hopefully there’s going to be a bunch of collaborations on the tour, where a lot of us singers will be able to get onstage with each other and do songs with each other, and there might be a giant jam at the end of our set—which we’re trying to put together right now. So it’s just going to be a wild, wild experience, man! NCV: Shinedown has done all kinds of shows, from playing indoor sports arenas and midsize concert clubs to headlining massive outdoor festivals. Do you have a preference for the kind of forum you play in, and the size of your ideal audience? BS: It depends on the type of tour that we’re doing. I mean, when we’re doing large-scale production, dude, I’m the guy who wants to play in the desert and have everybody show up! 20 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 You know? I always wanted to be bigger and better. The way I look at it is, we write songs because it’s cheaper than therapy. That’s what we do for a living. And we love it, and we’re very honest about it. We wouldn’t have written the songs if we didn’t want the whole world to hear them. So the bigger the venue, it’s always gonna make me smile. But when you’re doing intimate shows, yeah, that puts you on your game. When you’re in a smaller venue you’re defi nitely under more of a microscope. I had a lot of health issues in recent years, where I really let myself go—but I lost seventy pounds last year. I needed to get healthy again, and get focused again. So that’s what I did. I’m 35 years old now, and I feel better now than when I was 25. Somebody was talking about me the other day and said, “Brent’s not getting older. He’s just getting better.” And that’s so nice, but that’s the way I wanted to present myself. Be a better front man, a better singer and performer. It was just something that I needed to do. NCV: Shinedown songs have been used on TV and in movies, like Alice in Wonderland. MON.- FRI 10:30am-7pm More recently, Sylvester Stallone had you tailor-make a song—“Diamond Eyes”—for the fi rst HAPPY HOUR $/-%34)#3 7%,, $2).+3 Expendables movie. What was that like? BS: Yeah, he gave us a call one afternoon and was like, “I want you to write me a song for this movie I’m doing, where it’s like, the ultimate action fi lm of all time.” He was very specifi c, $).% ). $ /.,9 and actually very helpful with writing it because he knew exactly what kind of song he wanted, 3 Cheeseburger & Fries! MONDAYS and told us the rhythm he wanted. That whole thing with “boom-lay” came from this poem [by Vachel Lindsay, 1912] called “The Congo” that he based the fi lm off of to begin with, so that’s $).% ). why you hear the phrase, “Boom lay, boom lay, boom!” in the song. But he was super-rad, and ¢ /.,9 he took us into his studio in Beverly Hills when they were fi nishing the director’s cut for the fi lm TUES. & THURS. 30 A WING and put the song in. NCV: That makes Shinedown like, the Survivor of the 2010’s. It sounds like what happened to them with Sly and “Eye of the Tiger” back in ’82. $ BS: That’s it. And yeah, he’s very thorough; a total artist, very in tune with what he wants, 7.00 quite a methodical guy, very tender, a very sweet guy, very soft-spoken, but in fantastic shape. I Buckets of think he’s sixty-something now, and he looks awesome. When we met him I was just like, “This WEEKENDS dude is freakin…wow.” It was one of the coolest experiences I’ve had in the entertainment Beer industry, and he’s one of the most genuine guys you could ever meet. He’s a freakin’ rock star, man. Cool as hell. NCV: And now you’re on a health kick, too. How’d you drop so much weight so quickly, and how has it helped with your voice and your energy onstage? FRI. JULY 19: BS: A lot of it is just…you just drink a ton of water all the time. You try to eat as clean as you can, as healthy as you can, and try to stay away from sugar and sodium and sodas and alcohol NEVER and all that. I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since November 2011. When I stopped, everyone A COVER THESE DAYS was like, “Oh! You had a problem!” Well sure, I always had a problem with drinking [laughs]! But the reason I quit was because there’s an ungodly amount of empty calories in alcohol, and CHARGE there was no way I was gonna lose weight if I didn’t eliminate it. But yeah—you gotta make a decision, man. It’s like, “Do I want to kick ass on stage, or do I want to fall on my ass in life?” You have to make a conscious decision to get healthy. With my voice, it’s just like an athlete. You have to train and take care of yourself, and do it day-in and day-out. This is what I do for a living, so I have to be rehearsed. SAT. JULY 20: NCV: You guys recently recorded a bunch of “unplugged” cover songs. The picks are diverse, but all of them are tunes everybody knows. How’d that project come about? BS: That was our fans. We did a thing on Facebook where we said, any song you ever wanted BACK 4 MORE [Shinedown guitarist] Zach [Myers] and Brent to cover acoustically, submit the song. Some six thousand songs were submitted, then it was narrowed down by percentage to 20, and then those 20 were pitted against each other for two weeks, and the fans got to pick the songs. We did Adell’s “Someone Like You,” Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train,” “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica, “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding. We did Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s “Blue on Black,” and Kenny was actually in town, so he came over and did it with us. FRI. JULY 26: NCV: At past Shinedown shows I’ve seen you did this neat little “benediction” type thing near FRI & SAT the end, where you pause and address the crowd and sort of recognize that everyone there is together for that single moment in time. It’s kind of a neat gesture, and I wondered how that T.B.S. BANDS AT developed in your show. BS: I usually do it near the beginning, but yeah, I know what you’re talking about. I tell 9PM everybody, “Turn to your neighbor, I want to see you high-fi ving everybody!” Honestly, man, it came from Kid Rock. I saw him do that once on a Storytellers show he did in Los Angeles, and he got it from all the preachers from back in the day, when he was getting versed in R&B and soul music. I’m infl uenced by that as well, and with preachers in the South, one of the fi rst SAT. JULY 27: things they have you do is stand up and meet your neighbor. And there’s nothing quote-unquote “spiritual” about it per se, it’s just about, “Hey, we might not have known each other coming in, but we do now.” It’s about being together, and having that unity and that great vibe, and hanging ELM STREET BLUES BAND out with your brother and your sister. Tickets at livenation.com www.shinedown.com www.carnivalofmadness.com ,AKESHORE "LVD s 7ILLOUGHBY !T THE INTERSECTION OF ,AKESHORE ,OST .ATION 2D s July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 21 ROCKIN’By Trenda AND Jones RIDIN’ FOR RECOVERY!
Helping thousands of Lake and Geauga County residents since 1971. And now, bringing the community together for a motorcycle run, Lake-Geauga Recovery Centers has a great summer day in store! Sponsored by Western Reserve Harley Davidson of Mentor and Carlton Harley Davidson of Mantua, “Rock’n & Ridin’ 4 Recovery” takes place July 27, 2013. Registration begins 9:00am at Western Reserve and fi rst bike out at 10:00. Cruise to Carlton and return to WRHD for music, food, vendors, Chinese auction and raffl es. At the same time, reinforcing a positive, sober lifestyle!
A full day of entertainment includes: DJ Trenda - 9am-1:30pm Streetwyze - 2-3pm Brickhouse Blues Band - 3:15-4pm
Lake Geauga Recovery Centers; a non-profi t organization providing a wide range of services to individuals and their families affected by alcohol and substance abuse or by mental illness. The agency provides hope as well as recovery through education and various programs. Services include FREE community education, Outpatient Services: assessments, individual and group counseling and dual diagnosis, and Residential Treatment Programs that offer a place to recover, heal and begin a new life! No one is refused services due to inability to pay. For detailed information and success stories, please visit www.lgrc.us/ Get help now by calling: (440) 255-0678 (Mentor) or (440) 285-9119 (Chardon) *emergency appointments are available*
22 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville Author Michael Streissguth Review by Pete Roche
Today’s country music scene wouldn’t be blossoming like junipers outside a freeway rest stop were it not for yesterday’s musical pioneers. Now available from Harper Collins, Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville, surveys the colorful history of country’s biggest names and tells—often in exquisite detail—how these maverick men (and women) upset the recording industry’s status quo and became the stuff of legend. Michael Streissguth, professor at the Department of Communication and Film Studies at LeMoyne College in Syracuse and author of numerous books on Johnny Cash and his daughter, argues for the existence of a bona fi de “outlaw movement” in Nashville—a cultural phenomenon characterized by rugged individualism on the part of struggling musicians who (circa 1965-1980) took to blazing their own trails in the business long before the labels began packaging their rebellion as a sales gimmick. Splicing stories of the arrivals and ascent of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson out of Tennessee with narrative tangents on other insiders and hangers-on (musicians, producers, managers, lovers), Streissguth gives a better sense of who these godfathers-of-gutstrings were (and still are, in the cases of Nelson and Kristofferson) while providing a fairly comprehensive overview of the era in which they left their mark. Like a two- part of Dukes of Hazzard (whose theme Jennings performed), Outlaw is marinated in misadventure, generously seasoned by beer-soaked tales of payola, murder, and addiction, fried in the malaise gristle of a paranoid, post-Vietnam nation—and garnished by the parsley of the genre’s best music ever. Using the 1964 death of country crooner Jim Reeves as an entry point, Streissguth renders the literary equivalent of a Norman Rockwell painting of downtown Nashville in the wake of desegregation. Conservatism still ruled in schools and soda shops alike, but blacks—emboldened by Brown v. Board of Education—increasingly tested new social parameters, and whites were more willing to accommodate them. The country recoiled from JFK’s assassination and braced for a controversial military incursion overseas. Spearheaded by those lads from Liverpool, the British Invasion rejuvenated LOCAL DATES: America’s youth like an adrenaline shot to the heart. People were inspired; social activism and artistic expression (particularly in music) were encouraged. And nowhere was Nashville’s shifting zeitgeist more manifest than in the student body at nearby Vanderbilt University. July 18 & Aug 15 SBG Sportsterz Geneva 8pm Elvis Presley had demonstrated the primal power of turbocharged country music (it wasn’t referred to as rock and roll just yet)—but he’d been conscripted. With Reeves joining Hank Williams in the dead-too-soon club, popular country music was left in the hands of “safe” singers like Eddie July 20 Lake Effectz Madison 9:30pm Arnold and producers like Chet Atkins, who—despite his guitar prowess—had a reputation for pumping out innocuous, cookie cutter records for RCA. Rock enjoyed a healthy infancy. But the evolution of country music was stymied until the rise of the Man in Black—Johnny Cash—whose Folsom August 2 St. Mary’s Mentor Festival 8pm Prison concert and take-no-shit attitude started turning heads. Taped at Ryman Auditorium, Cash’s ABC television show became the single most important forum for breaking new artists (1969-1971), and it was here, with frequent guest spots, that ex-Airborne Ranger Kristofferson (who’d already Aug 23 & Sept 27 & 28 written songs for Cash and others) fi rst won national attention. Jewels Dance Hall Austinburg 9pm Streissguth argues that Nashville had no place for a wordsmith like Kristofferson, a helicopter pilot-turned-bard who wielded a pen with the Check website for regional dates at redneckincmusic.com poeticism of William Blake. Only later would the honky-tonk styling of Hank Williams seep into Kristofferson’s heady relationship sonnets, inspiring Roger Miller and Ray Price but scaring off producers who were convinced Bob Dylan-like lyrics didn’t belong in country. Undeterred, Kris kept playing nightclubs and writing classics for other musicians until his appearances on Cash’s program forced record execs to rethink their approach. Kristofferson knew he was a good songwriter—but he wasn’t as confi dent about his singing and guitar playing, and could hardly believe it when a label offered him a contract as both writer and performer. Meanwhile, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson played pubs and small-hall shows between third- shift DJ stints. Nelson had already written classics like “Crazy” for Patsy Cline but was unable to parlay KELLYSJEWELSDANCEHALL such triumphs into record sales until he fl ed RCA for Atlantic—and returned home to Texas. Jennings was already a celebrated, pompadour-headed string-picker by the late fi fties and famously gave J.P. Richardson his seat on the doomed fl ight that killed the “Big Bopper” (along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens), but he felt constricted by Atkins’ soft touch at RCA and wanted to explore electric country music with his band, The Waylors. Following Cash’s footsteps, Jennings issued RCA an ultimatum: He’d record whatever he wanted where he wanted, with whatever musicians he wanted to use, or he’d jump ship. The label buckled, and within a few years RCA and other major companies had sold most of their studios to focus solely on the distribution and marketing aspects of the business. Jennings had set the trend, attracting up-and-coming Wednesday hopefuls to Nashville’s Music Row. The East / West Square neighborhoods blossomed in the late ‘60s "The Most Fun You Can and early ‘70s like a southern adjunct to NYC’s Greenwich Village. The paradigm shift was too much Karaoke 8pm Have with Your Boots On" for Atkins, whose cancer worsened almost immediately, prompting his retirement. Thursday Packed with outlaw anthems written by Billy Joe Shaver, Jennings’ 1973 long player Honky Tonk Line Dance Heroes effectively ushered in the era of the gun-slinging guitarist. Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger (1975) Lessons with Live Music was another early classic, and the all-star compilation Wanted: The Outlaws! (1976) nudged both Waylon Dee 7pm and Willie to the fore—along with Glaser and Jessi Colter—becoming country’s fi rst-ever platinum album. Every Fri. & Sat. “Waylon redefi ned country rock, [but] Willie’s remained the soul of country music,” the author writes. “He embodied the original pulse, the link to rural beginnings…bridged the gaps between those all-too- few golden moments when country music meshes the present with tradition.” 9-1 The book’s second half picks up speed, with Nelson circling his wagons after a fi re at his farmhouse and Jennings staying awake for days on end, buoyed by alcohol and amphetamines. ,OOKING FOR GOOD COUNTRY BANDS Steissguth transports us to the christening of the new Grand Ole Opry in ’74, where disgraced President Nixon played piano, and to cowboy haunts like Hillbilly Central—where bored musicians threw knives for sport. We visit the Red Dog Saloon, the Exit / In, and the Burger Boy, where Waylon and One of this Area’s Original Country Dance Halls Glaser pumped thousands of dollars into pinball machines—one quarter at a time. We meet eccentric entertainers like David Allen Coe (who lived out of a hearse and claimed others’ songs as his own) (OURS 7ED4HURS MIDNIGHT s &RI s 3AT and Lee Emerson Bellamy, a womanizing crook shot dead by Sgt. Barry Sadler (“Ballad of the Green Berets”). The 288-page tome contains scattered black and white images and lengthy footnotes and 5QTT;\440-275-5332 bibliography (wherein Streissguth cites old Tennessean and Country News articles and interviews), and the number of names appearing in the index gives a better—if somewhat overwhelming—idea of the key (and peripheral) players involved in country’s most rambunctious movement.
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Custom Designs By Luthier Patrick Podpadec Guitars Basses As I’m sitting down to write this article I can’t help looking outside every minute or so to appreciate the absolute beautiful day that it is Acoustic outside. After about two weeks of rain everyday it’s fi nally just sunny and gorgeous without any humidity. It’s hard to be inside on the computer Electric on days like this. Mandolins Double Necks Anyway, things have been going very good lately. The shop has been busy with many new projects and I have even been picking up some Harp Guitars work outside of the shop too. The extra work is coming in handy because I’m getting ready to take my family (wife and son) over to the “Emerald
Major Repairs Isle” for a vacation in late Aug. I am so looking forward to the trip. It will be my fi rst venture overseas and I plan to go visit one of my favorite Fast, Reliable Turnover Reliable Fast, for Working Musicians Working for Restorations “The Dreamcaster” guitar builders named George Lowden. I have been admiring his lutherie skills for many years and it will be a pleasure to fi nally get a chance to Custom built Refinishing for Brian Henke meet him. Refretting th Intonation Adjustments Before jumping off to Ireland, I must tell you all about my upcoming event at The Madison Public Library. On Aug 10 I will be hosting a Acoustic Pickup Installs workshop about building guitars. It will be held from 1:00 to 3:00 or later if people want to stay later to ask more questions. I plan to bring a SUMMER SPECIAL few of my “contraptions” that I have built and use over the years when $1000 OFF I’m building different instruments. I am very glad that the Library staff ANY REPAIR is allowing me to showcase my work and to give me an opportunity With mention of this ad. to share my experience with the public. I can’t tell you enough about how the library has helped me throughout the years when researching Patrick Podpadec and trying to read everything I could about building guitars. In the Luthier early days I would go to the library and get every book possible on 440.474-2141 the subject. Even though many of the books were not located at the [email protected] Madison branch, they are affi liated with many other larger libraries across north east Ohio. I was able to fi nd almost every book that has www.liamguitars.com been published about lutherie. This gave me the opportunity to read all of them fi rst before purchasing them. As with a lot of things, some reference materials aren’t worth spending an arm and a leg for. I was able to decide which ones were of good value and then I could purchase them after I read them for a couple of weeks. I now have quite a very good personal collection of reference materials that I have acquired over the years. Every year or so I check out new books that keep coming out on the market. Of course there is the internet now with YouTube and other data but I still enjoy the Madison Public library for 7ED *ULY s n s $EERS ,EAP 7INERY all of its other activities that they host from time to time .They often
4HURS *ULY s n have opportunities for small local businesses to showcase their services and are very supportive to members of our local community. I strongly -AGIC 4REE s "OARDMAN recommend a nice visit to the library to enjoy all of the different events that they host, and please try to come to my workshop “A Day in the Shop &RI *ULY s n s "EACHCLUB 'RILLE of a Luthier” on Aug 10th . 3AT *ULY s n Recently I have been back to work on the “Harp guitar” that I started a few months back. Many times when a new or different project comes )NDIAN #REEK #AMPGROUND s 'ENEVA along I spend a lot of time “prepping” my next move in the building process. I believe that by going over the processes in my mind over and over "UFFETT 4RIBUTE #ONCERT many mistakes can be avoided before I actually start cutting up my very expensive wood. I don’t mind making an occasional mistake, but I like 3UN *ULY s n (ARPERSFIELD &IRE $EPT it a lot more when I don’t make one. If that can be avoided by repeating my procedures in my head or on paper time and time again, then so be it. To me it’s time well spent. Often by the time I do the thing that I have been worrying about doing for so long, it goes very well because I have -ON *ULY s n /LD &IREHOUSE 7INERY “worried” out all of the problems from the process before I start it. Some people would say “That’s just an excuse to take your time.” Well that’s
7ED *ULY s n true! Good things take time. Remember that Rome was not built in a day and neither is one of my guitars. $EBONNET 6INEYARDS I have always been sort of a “Perfectionist” I’m not saying I think that I do perfect work, far from it, but I am constantly trying to improve
&RI *ULY s n my skills. I take great pride in the things I produce and hope that they last for generations to come. I feel that anything worth doing is worth /LD &IREHOUSE 7INERY doing well and so the extra time involved is really worth the extra effort. I do understand that there should be some sort of time frame attached 3AT *ULY s n s &ERRANTES 7INERY to projects but I also believe that quality should take preference over a speedy delivery date. I also understand that time restraints are to be met
3AT *ULY s n in order to establish a reliable reputation, so it is this fi ne line that I walk. I have been very fortunate so far as to have very understanding clients. 'OOD 4IME ))) #RUISE Another thing that I have trouble doing is saying “no” to some repairs that just eat away at my very limited time schedule. I have a soft spot in
3UN *ULY s n my heart for broken instruments. What can I say? I’m still always looking for a dedicated apprentice that is looking to learn a lifelong highly 4HE 7INERY AT 3PRING (ILL th gratifying skill, so give me a call if you’re interested. Or come to the Madison Public Library on Sat Aug. 10 at 1:00. Hope to see you there, and -ON *ULY s n until then please Stay in Tune! /LD &IREHOUSE 7INERY check out Thanks Again! www.tomtoddmusic.com for more information & pictures Patrick from Liam Guitars/ Wood-n-Strings 24 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 By Lureena Hey Ho! It’s Westside Steve Simmons newest CD A Pirates Life Whooz Playin’ Steve’s performing career began before he was old enough to drive; teen shows at the Eagles Hall in 7ED *UL s 0- Carrollton, Ohio, garage gigs and dances in the ‘burbs Geneva Lodge s &IRST #LASS 4RIO which then led to nearly two decades as the front man for one of Ohio’s premier rock acts, the Easy Street Band, and another 25 years as a solo act favorite in the &RI *UL s 0- Midwest party capital, Put-In-Bay. 2013 marks Westside Rounder's IN -ENTOR s &IRST #LASS 4RIO Steve’s 25th year as a solo performer and it also marks the release of Steve’s long awaited 3rd solo CD entitled 3AT *UL s !- A Pirate’s Life. Geneva Lodge This CD, like his previous two, Windward Crossing s &IRST #LASS 4RIO and Limestone Cowboy, are mainly compiled of Steve’s original music augmented by a few traditional tunes and some of his favorite songs of the Great &RI *UL s 0- Lakes. Deer's Leap Winery s &IRST #LASS 4RIO Guests that lent their talents to accompany Steve on A Pirate’s Life are: Brigid’s Cross virtuoso, Paul Baker, on fi ddle for Scarborough Fair and Battle of Lake Erie. The lovely and 3AT *UL s 0- talented, Sarah Wilfong, for the violin on Abilene. Lullabye features Tim Longfellow on piano and Maestro Mark Alan Schulz on cello. Renowned West Coast jazz guitarist Dan Goodman Laurello Winery s &IRST #LASS 4RIO played the solo on Northern Lights and provided the audio mastering for this CD. Susan “Dumpling” Ebert sang harmony on Scarborough Fair and the Long Black Veil. To Book: 440-796-3057 The fi rst title track “A Pirate’s Life” is fun, danceable, catchy and reminiscent of the sea WWW.WHOOZPLAYIN.COM shanty “Drunken Sailor”. Steve says “I wrote A Pirate’s Life last season when I found myself playing from bar to bar at Put in Bay after my usual venue was sold and changed directions.” The second track (Maryanne) and thirteenth (Lullabye) are love songs that slow the pace to pensive or even forlorn but they show another side of Steve’s talent and fi t a mood that nearly everyone experiences from time to time (especially sitting alone with pint of whiskey and growler of beer). One of my favorite songs on the disc is number four, “Northern Lights”, written while Steve was in Canada. The Latin rhythm that makes it so fun is from the opposite direction but it works. An instrumental of this would also be inspiring. What would a CD titled A Pirate’s Life be without a couple of Celtic tracks? Steve’s Irish adaptation of an old English tune, Scarborough Faire, brings it full tilt from earlier versions. Thumbs up! Now I can actually like the song. Track ten, Cimarron, has the feel of a country two step, up-tempo and enjoyable. Steve says, “I had a lot of fun writing Cimarron; it was just one of those catchy little melodies that got stuck in my head and forced me to write it. I’m still not positive if Cimarron is a girl, an elf or a magpie.” I guess that statement tells you that it’s totally open for interpretation. Steve’s bluesy arrangement of the cover, “House of the Rising Sun”, brings it back to life with a diverse depth which fans of the song should really appreciate. The twelfth song can’t go without mention – “The Battle of Lake Erie 2013” is a song written by Steve three years ago about what went on at Put in Bay as the war of 1812 wrapped up. Brigid’s Cross’, Paul Baker, teamed up with the bearded Irishman to do an upbeat new recording in a different key for the bicentennial of that battle which is this year. As a summary; the disc doesn’t carry a load of Celtic and “blow me down, mate” type songs as the title would suggest. It has ballads of love and ships, a splash of Irish and Cha Cha, just enough fun to keep one from drowning in a bottle of Rye, and new twists on old favorites. Whatever genre of music you enjoy, the outstanding musicianship and mix of styles in these thirteen tracks will impress and entertain. A Pirate’s Life is available on all major digital download and retail sites as well as at westsidesteve.com and at his shows. If you’re an east sider don’t miss Steve’s next show at Old Firehouse Winery in Geneva on the Lake on Sunday, July 21st. Enjoy an awesome view of Lake Erie, roomy patio, and Westside Steve all in one place!
July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 25 By Westside Steve Simmons The Lone Ranger Disney Bruckheimer Westside Steve PG13 149 min So the fi rst thing to be noticed is that Sunday, June 21 the fi lm starts out in the 1930s with a Old Firehouse Winery little kid in a Lone Ranger outfi t strolling 8:30 PM through the Wild West exhibit at a carni- Geneva on the Lake val. He comes upon a statue of the Native American apparently in his natural habitat. Thursday, June 25 As it turns out this noble savage is a living 2OSES 2UN ## s 0- breathing man, just very very old. It turns out that he is the legendary Tonto and he July 26 thru 31 proceeds to tell the young fellow the story 4HE +EYS s 0UT IN "AY of how he and his famous partner started !FTERNOONS out. I couldn’t help but notice the obvious %VENINGS rip from Dustin Hoffman’s LITTLE BIG MAN but... The story itself turns out to be Go to Facebook Westside Steve Simmons an adventure comedy told in fl ashback with for up to the minute changes! plenty of action, actually more than plenty www.westsidesteve.com of action, and just enough plot to satisfac- torily fi ll a 90 minute fi lm. Unfortunately when we hit the 90 minute mark there’s still an hour left to go. A particularly evil (and cannibalistic) bad guy namely Burch Cavendish is being transferred via locomotive for sentencing. A 306 whole bunch of other bad guys show up to LOUNGE wreck the train and rescue the SOB. A posse of Texas Rangers sets out to capture these desperados but are ambushed and killed. Along with one of the rangers is the clean cut brother, a bookish legal type of lawman who is actually left for dead. Tonto comes across the carnage and rescues the survivor thanks to the aid of a white “spirit Home of the Hoover horse” soon to be named, well, you know. Since the bad guys think all the rang- ers are dead he fi gures it’s a good idea for 2 HAPPY HOURS! the remaining brother to wear a mask. At it’s awfully watered down. That seems to cheer. Not quite a comedy or a thriller; and 7:30-10:30am this point the fi lm moves through periods of be a trademark of Gore Verbinski who is all in all it falls well short of expectations, & 4-6:30pm dull introspection and loud frenetic action. apparently Johnny Depp’s go to director. In hence the beating it took at the box offi ce. The good guys and bad guys are separated a way, given the pacing and the tone, THE Might still be the curse of Clayton Moore. Daily Specials along politically correct lines, the bad guys LONE RANGER reminded me a bit of the /PEN $AYS s AM AM are the US Army and the railroad corporate second PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN C+ Full Kitchen Menu executives and the twisted desperados in but with no great performance. "REAKFAST 3ERVED AM their employ. Still I did not dislike this fi lm by any 7377 Lakeshore Blvd. This fi lm reminds me a bit of a line means even if it dragged noticeably in Mentor from a folk song “one split pea in a 10 spots. And honestly at the fi nal scene when 440.257.3557 pound tub”. It’s really not a bad story but they cue the music it’s hard not to want to 26 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 July 17 - 31, 2013 to the bottom of yet another sinister plan Despicable Me 2 to rule the world. He is reluctantly teamed Universal PG 98 min up with Lucy, a female agent and fi nds Hi folks. Well fi rst the good news. himself fi ghting an odd attraction. I’m not If you were a big fan, like hundreds of a huge fan of Carell but I must admit that thousands of others of the original DESPI- the chemistry between Gru and CABLE ME you will have a wonderful time watching DESPI-
CABLE ME 2. Now for the bad news. Hey wait... Gee I guess there Lucy shines through the animation and really isn’t any bad news. Well wait, I went their repartee is clean and crisp. Not only to the 3D showing and it cost me 28 bucks that but he carries off the accent without a for two tickets which works out to roughly slip. And all of those little yellow minions 5 pints of quality beer but that’s not bad we have come to know and love are just as news for you. mischievous and entertaining as ever. Other Anyway, it’s no easy task to come personal twists in this action feature involve up with much of a review since there isn’t young love between one of his daughters a lot that’s groundbreaking here. I will and a handsome young man as well as repeat, however, that Illumination Entertain- parting of the ways with his old sidekick Dr ment, the creative team behind this series, Nefario (Russell Brand) who is bored with is heavyweight contender to the Disney the straight life. There’s plenty of silliness championship belt. Not that there have been and fun for all ages and a nonstop pace that any knockout blows struck against mouse guarantees you won’t be bored. central and Pixar but these guys have actu- ally landed a glove on the champ. This animated escapade is about as good as they get. Oh the plot isn’t particu- B+ larly groundbreaking, many of the elements WSS of the original have been warmed up and www.westsidesteve.com served in a casserole but this time replacing the bonding sequences with the children we have bonding sequences with a love interest, special agent Lucy (Kristen Wiig). In the last fi lm Gru (Steve Carell) saw the error of his evil ways and is now a produc- tive member of society working hard too perfect his own line of jams and jellies. The effort isn’t going very well and our hero is a bit frustrated. All of a sudden at anti evil organization recruits him to help get July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 27 ~Continued from Page 19 Think It’s Going to Rain Today” glistens with Night’s vocals, strident drums, thumping bass, and an elegant, uplifting hook wherein the chanteuse exchanges “broken windows and empty hallways” for an “overfl owing” of human kindness. Siberian snow song “Troika” shimmers with the acoustic stringed instruments of Ukrainian folk. Boasting a shuffl ing bass, incidental percussion, fl amenco fl ourishes, and more- complex-than-they-sound guitar solos, the tune evokes images of Russian Cossacks dancing on tables in noisy beer halls. Ballad “The Last Leaf” fi nds Candice marking the passage of the seasons to Ritchie’s poignant nylon-string leads. The “tree in an open fi eld” is an allegory for the human condition, of course, with each shivering leaf thereon a symbol of mortality, fragile and fl eeting in the winds of time. The group rumbas through a reworking of Ken Hesley’s “Lady in Black,” with Night adorning the Uriah Heep tale of witches of war with plaintive pennywhistle. The music quickens as the sorceress abandons our heroine, the tone darkening as Blackmore introduces distorted electric guitar chords over punctuating, castanet-like handclaps. Another cover, “Temple of the King,” has Ritchie dipping into his Rainbow catalog on a song whose reimagining pays homage to departed singer Ronnie James Dio, who sang the original 1976 version. Buzzing slide guitar and tasty trills swirl over a clickety-clack rhythm, the bass undulating persistently. Night reengages Lady Luna on title track “Dancer and the Moon,” beguiling listeners with a lead vocal that swoops over Blackmore’s slick guitar riff and kick-drum stomp. It’s no secret Ritchie’s songbird has an affi nity for the moon—having named several albums and songs for the satellite—but now Candice uses the glowing orb as the backdrop for a ritualistic gypsy courtship set to “the heartbeat of the night.” Fiddle, whistle, electric guitar, and a choir of Hey! Hey! Hey! Until the break of day! compels the dancer through her kinetic seduction, despite—or perhaps for the benefi t of—her spectator’s “hungry eyes.” The whispering wind and meandering streams speak secret languages to Night in “The Ashgrove,” reminding her lovelorn maiden of a childhood spent frolicking “down yonder green valley” and meeting her dear one. “The Spinner’s Tale” is a melancholy lament whose subdued strumming and palm-muting picking mimic the weaving of “the fabric of time.”
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The CIFF has grown to attract more than 93,000 people annually, with over 340 feature length and short subject fi lms that represent approximately 60 countries. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to showcase your work at one of the leading Film Festivals in the world and to be eligible for nearly $60,000 in cash prizes. The 38th CIFF will take place March 19 – March 30, 2014 at Tower City Cinemas. For additional information on the Cleveland International Film Festival, please visit www.clevelandfi lm.org. HOUSE OF BLUES® CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS India Arie Wednesday, November 20 * doors at 7:00 PM Tickets: $29 - In Advance * 4-Packs: $87 On Sale: Friday, July 19 @ 10 AM World renowned award winning singer/ songwriter India Arie came onto the national music scene in 2001with her Motown Records debut Acoustic Soul. She followed up in 2002 with her sophomore release Voyage to India and then in 2006 released her third album, the more personally expressive Testimony: vol.1, Life & Relationship. Testimony vol. 2, Love and Politics, her fourth studio album, released in 2009. All four releases received critical acclaim and made India a highly respected and noted artist in a very short amount of time. She has sold an impressive 10 million albums worldwide and has received numerous awards and nominations including a staggering 21 Grammy nominations, 4 Grammy Awards, 3 NAACP Image awards, as well as awards from BET, Billboard, MTV, VH1, Vogue Fashion, Essence Magazine and others. India. Arie’s acclaimed fi fth studio album SongVersation (Soulbird/ Motown Records) which released June 25th, received rave reviews and marks her fi fth #1 on the Billboard R&B Album Chart and fi fth top 10 debut on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Artists Website: www.soulbird.com HOB 20th Anniversary Presents: Blue October – The Sway Tour Thursday, September 19 Tickets: $28.50 In Advance * 4-Packs: $84 On Sale: Friday, June 28 @ 10 AM Blue October, the San Marcos, TX-based band known for shimmering rock songs and haunting lyrics on albums such as 2009’s Billboard Top 15 debut, Approaching Normal, 2011’s Billboard Top Ten debut Any Man In America and the Platinum-selling Foiled, makes a triumphant return with Sway the band’s fi rst album in two years. With lush, atmospheric songs such as “Bleed Out,” “Angels In Everything” and “Fear,” and the edgy rocker “Put It In,” the Texas four-piece comes back strongwith a revitalized energy and a positive outlook. As singer Justin Furstenfeld puts it: “This album is about why life is so beautiful. It’s about facing fears and recognizing miracles every day. It’s about enjoying yourself and realizing that life is not something you can half-ass.” Artists Website: www.blueoctober.com Pepper Tuesday, October 1 Tickets: $18 In Advance On Sale: Friday, June 28 @ 10 AM Pepper’s music is a melodic and accessible blend of alternative pop/rock, punk, and reggae. Pepper, who formed in 1997 and moved to the mainland from their hometown of Kailua Kona, Hawaii in 1999, pressed pause after the release of their fi fth album, Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations, in 2008. There was a sense of fatigue and disunity amongst the three musicians, who took some time off from music both apart and together before rejoining to create an EP, Stiches, in late 2010. The songs on that release re-energized the group, revealing an urgent desire to make a new album that refl ected where they are in their lives and career now. After some tour dates in support of the EP, Pepper sat down and focused on their sixth album, a self-titled released that swings open the door on this new chapter. Pepper has toured extensively with groups like 311, Slightly Stoopid, Flogging Molly and Sublime With Rome, and spent several summers on Warped Tour – and this live sensibility shows. You can almost feel the sand in your toes and the sun on your back as the album progresses, the musician’s amiable personalities palpable beneath the island rhythms and mellow tones. The band’s music – both live and on their releases – is really about enjoying life and being grateful for each experience, a sensibility that’s very familiar to the three musicians currently in their career. Artists Website: www.pepperlive.com
July 17 - 31, 2013 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 29 Quite Odd Indeed! I got involved in some really odd deep conversations with some local humans about all sorts of odd things like the theory of evolution, gravity, god, quantum physics and really smart blind people! One guy, we’ll call Sparky, was trying to convince the rest of us that gravity really isn’t pulling us down, it’s pushing us down! Umm… ok… who cares we’re still going down! Heh- heh-heh! But then I thought about it for about 0.0000987 seconds and realized that if that was true then I sure am glad I live on this side of the earth because the people on the other side would be falling off the planet! AAAAHHHH!!! Then there was another guy, we’ll call Crass, a crotchety old bastard that was getting kind of offended by the response he was getting when talking about god! Well ya know… not everybody is going to be so intense about a being that claims to love you but will set you on fi re and watch you burn for eternity if you don’t do what he says! I fi nd that quite odd and I’m not kidding! Then another guy, we’ll call Numbers, was telling us how he worked with a really smart blind lady that could do calculus in brail, which of course set my deep cavernous mind into overdrive! heh heh heh! As I was listening to his story about how smart she was, I couldn’t help but to wonder how does he know if she is really blind or not? I mean, there are fakers out there that pretend to be blind, and I’ve run into them before! So I came up with a blind test which would immediately expose the blind fakers! Ok, here’s the thing, blind people are supposed to have heightened senses of smell, hearing and touch because… well they’re blind! And to catch a faker you have to take advantage of these ‘Spidey Senses’! The blind test is quite simple really, when they’re talking to you start making really weird faces at them, sticking your tongue out, and contorting your face! I learned this technique from watching a master ‘Weird Facial Blind Tester’ in action! I got it from Jim Carey’s movie ‘Pet Detective’ when he’d do the weird facial thing behind someone’s back, my favorite parts in the movie! This should stop any normal blind faker from being able to continue talking! They still could be faking it if they’ve been exposed to the ‘Weird Facial Blind Test’ before and have mastered the technique of… ‘Weird Facial Blind Test Blocking’, you’ll need to take an extra step to be sure your blind sympathies are not being wasted on some ‘Un-blind’ person! Just continue with the ‘Weird Facial Blind Test’ but move in really close within inches of their face while performing it! A real blind person should be able to detect this maneuver with their ‘Spidey Senses’ and stop talking to make sense of their space being invaded within a few seconds, whereas a blind faker will move back instantly! I call this technique the ‘Weird Facial Blind Test Closer Upper’! You may want to practice this technique with someone like your wife or girlfriend before administering it in a real blind test! I don’t mean to make fun of blind people, I’d hire a blind person in a heartbeat, but I wouldn’t sit them in a cubicle and give them some stupid job, I’d put them on a tow motor just to see how heightened those spidey senses were! Hmm… guess I am odd… quite odd indeed!
~Snarp www.snarpfarkle.com
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