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Brevard Live November 2014 - 1 2 - Brevard Live November 2014 Brevard Live November 2014 - 3 4 - Brevard Live November 2014 Brevard Live November 2014 - 5 6 - Brevard Live November 2014 Content November 2014 FEATURES BEING 80s AGAIN FREE REGGAE CONCERT Matt Bretz took the trip back to the 80s This reggae concert in Wickham Park fea- when he attended the 3-day-festival of turing Inner Circle offers more than good “80s In The Park” as a neutral visitor and Columns vibes. Producer and sponsor Chris Robin- experienced the music, the rockstars, the son of One Insurance Group wants to in- crowd and the mud. form people about Obamacare. Charles Van Riper Page 18 Page 13 22 Political Satire OMS 4 Calendars ART FESTIVALS The 4th annual Original Music Series Fall is the month when Brevard offers an Live Entertainment, wants to provide a premier showcase for 25 array of fine art and craft festivals. The Concerts, Festivals original music in this county. With three Space Coast Art Festival, now located at bands every Sunday night it’s a music the Port, has a 51-year-tradition. ArtWorks lover’s event. It started off last month with Outta Space in Eau Gallie is in its 18th year. great performances and a packed house. 30 by Jared Campbell Page 13 Page 32 Local Lowdown RICKY NELSON REMEMBERED 35 by Steve Keller His twin sons, multi-platinum recording MONDAY’S MONA LISA What’s trending? artists in their own right, relive the music They were voted Favorite Original Band and memories in their multi-media event at the Brevard Live Music Awards and Knights After Nights titled Ricky Nelson Remembered Starring ever since they haven’t been out of the Hot spots, events, public eye giving interviews, celebrating Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. It showcases 44 by Charles & Lissa the life and music of Ricky Nelson. their first EP release party and performing concerts with screaming girls. Page 17 Page 43 Brevard Live November 2014 - 7 8 - Brevard Live November 2014 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most popular free entertainment Welcome To BREVARD LIVE magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 23 years. PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke HAPPY HOPPING NOVEMBER STAFF ACCOUNT MANAGER The tourists are gone, the snowbirds Charlene Hemmle haven’t arrived yet. The mass entertain- MUSIC WRITERS ment with favorite cover tunes has slowed John Leach down and that gives us the opportunity to Steve Keller leave the mainstream of commercial music Charles Knight and take a walk on the wild side: The Orig- inal Music Series, the OMS 4, presented PHOTOGRAPHY by Brevard Live Magazine, Lou’s Blues, John Sluder Chuck Van Riper and Budweiser started off with a bang Lissa Knight featuring Karmatic, Jacie & The Knick The Last Chance Band won the title “Fa- Knacks, and vorite Cover Band 2014” at the Brevard COVER PHOTO Honey Miller Live Music Awards and now they want by Wikimedia who deliv- to celebrate their awards with a party ered superb at Siggy’s on November 7th starting at COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper performances 9:30pm. If you’re already a fan, come and Charles & Lissa Knight in front of a celebrate. If you like to hear some kickin’ Jared Campbell huge crowd. country and southern rock, then this is Even a fresh- YOUR chance. Considering the band and Reproduction of any portion of ly wed bride its members walked away with 6 (!) differ- Brevard Live Magazine is strictly and groom ent awards this year, it’s a great reason to prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. showed up for celebrate. a few dances. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Phone: (321) 956-9207 If Halloween didn’t give you enough [email protected] creeps, then consider Krampus Night as a second helping. MadHatter Promotions COMMENTS & LETTERS The Space Coast State Fair is com- invites to a full moon holiday pub krawl on Brevard Live Magazine ing back to the stadium in Viera offering Friday, December 5th, starting at 7pm in P.O. 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For more information call 321-543-1346 or visit www.Madhat- Download a pdf file terPromotions.com. BREVARD FLORIDA Enjoy your holiday season with all the foods, the arts, and the parties. Brevard LIVE County keeps rocking... at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live November 2014 - 9 10 - Brevard Live November 2014 Brevard Lately The Air & Space Show at the Melbourne Airport was an unforgettable weekend of Thunderbirds over Melbourne and acrobatic flight manouvers attracting 250,000 visitors, courtesy of Northrop Grumman. - Below: Is fall coming? Photos by Chuck Van Riper Brevard Live November 2014 - 11 12 - Brevard Live November 2014 Brevard Live November 22, 4-10pm, Wickham Park Free Reggae Concert To Promote ObamaCare ocal entrepreneur Chris Robinson of One In- surance Group announces a free reggae mu- sicL concert to unify and inform the masses on the Affordable Healthcare Act (The ACA, aka “Obam- acare”): The 2014 One Love Music Festival, No- vember 22nd, from 4pm to 10pm at Wickham Park Main Pavilion. And there is no better way to bring people together than music. Chris Robinson is the owner of One Insurance Group, Inc., an insurance agency specializing in health insurance. After over twenty years in the health insurance industry Chris has seen many changes and understands the benefits and pitfalls of the ACA. He recognizes that the public has not been ad- equately educated about the ACA and misinformation has led to underutilization. Chris and his organization have already helped hun- dreds of Brevard county residents qualify for subsidies on the exchange and assisted them in comparing and enrolling in a new plan. Chris’s team is compensated by the insur- ance carrier so there is no additional cost to the community to receive their personalized expertise and assistance. The next individual health insurance open enrollment period will be November 15th, 2014 - February 15th , 2015. Chris Inner Circle will be headlining the reggae music festival plans on bringing awareness to Brevard County residents and helping thousands of hard working residents receive subsidies to help pay for health insurance on the federal ex- change. One Insurance Group, Inc. represents many of the winning band Inner Circle who performed at the 1978 Reg- carriers available on the exchange in Brevard such as Health gae Peace Concert in Jamaica. Later on in their career they First, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthOne and Coventry. performed the song Bad Boys that became world famous Chris Robinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Grow- after being chosen as the theme song to the popular show ing up less than a mile from Bob Marley’s house in Kings- Cops. In addition, Chris is bringing his favorite Latin Funk ton (now the Bob Marley Museum), Chris has fond memo- band out of Miami, Suenalo, and 506 Crew, the original ries of seeing Bob Marley as a youngster and playing soccer house reggae band from the Bob Marley club at Universal against his son Ziggy. Chris is now an avid Marley fan; the Walk in Orlando. For music lovers this promises to be a song “One Love” being one of his favorites. The upcom- great concert. ing free reggae concert sponsored by Chris’s company One To get your free tickets just “like” One Insurance Insurance Group, Inc. is inspired by the One Love Reggae Group, Inc. on Facebook and call their office at (321) 474- Peace Concert held in Kingston, Jamaica, when Chris was 0151 to make arrangements to pick up your free tickets. In a young boy in 1978. The One Love Reggae Peace concert addition, all profits from beverages sold at the concert will was intended to unify a country divided by political unrest, go to Serene Harbor, the shelter for women who have expe- featuring Bob Marley and many other reggae artists includ- rienced domestic violence. ing Inner Circle, the headline band for Chris’s upcoming When asked why he is putting so much effort into this concert November 22nd at Wickham Park. event Chris’s simple reply was “for those who are blessed Interestingly, Chris was able to book Grammy award much is expected.” Brevard Live November 2014 - 13 14 - Brevard Live November 2014 Brevard Live Nov. 28-30, Port Canaveral/ The Cove 51st Space Coast Art Festival or the past 51 years the Space Coast Art Festival has Fbeen held each Thanksgiving weekend. This year the traditional show has changed location and is moving to the Exploration Tower at Port Canaveral aka The Cove, No- vember 29th, 9 am to 5 pm, and 30th, 10 am to 5 pm. “This new location offers spacious accommodations that will allow us to create an artists’ booth layout that flows easily and will be more accessible to patrons.