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Brevard Live February 2015 - 1 2 - Brevard Live February 2015 Brevard Live February 2015 - 3 4 - Brevard Live February 2015 Brevard Live February 2015 - 5 6 - Brevard Live February 2015 Content February 2015 FEATURES GRANT SEAFOOD FESTIVAL JACKSON BROWNE Columns The Grant Seafood Festival is one the When you go see Jackson Browne at Charles Van Riper biggest Fish Fries in the South East - for The King Center this month you won’t 22 Political Satire the 49th year. All food is prepared by be just watching a man that’s created some of the most memorable songs of a townspeople with family recipes and 100 Calendars bygone era, you’ll be in the presence of percent volunteer effort. Live Entertainment, a man that is actually working to change Page 13 25 the world you live in. Concerts, Festivals Page 15 SIGFEST Outta Space For the second year members of the mu- 30 by Jared Campbell sic community have banded together for LAGOON-FEST a celebration in memory of Shawn and Mark your calendar - this will be a great Local Lowdown David Sigafoos and to benefit local char- music festival to save the Indian River 35 Reloaded! ities. Lagoon. Lots of big name bands on the Original Music Page 13 bill. Page 17 Flori-duh! GORDON LIGHTFOOT 38 by Charles Knight This year is special for the legendary art- GENERAL EYES WON OMS 4 ist who has announced plans for a cross- The judges voted unanimously: It was The Dope Doctor country USA tour entitled “Gordon General Eyes that left the strongest im- 40 Luis Delgado, CAP Lightfoot - 50 Years On The Carefree pression among four talented original Highway”. The tour will feature his well- bands and took home the Grand Prize of Knights After Nights known hits as well as some deep album the fourth annual Original Music Series. Hot spots, events, cuts for the die-hard fanatics. This month they grace our cover! 44 by Charles & Lissa Page 15 Page 18 Brevard Live February 2015 - 7 8 - Brevard Live February 2015 Brevard Lately 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 SALES MANAGER/ ASSISTANT EDITOR John Leach ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle MUSIC WRITERS John Leach Charles Knight PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper The Peace March Lissa Knight t was a cool morning, with temperatures in the COVER PHOTO lower 50s, when hundreds of people gathered Chuck Van Riper I for a Peace March through Melbourne to honor COLUMNISTS Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. There were Chuck Van Riper several marching and dance bands in the parade, Charles & Lissa Knight young and old folks, from all walks of life. The Jared Campbell message was “Peace” and it was well received as Reproduction of any portion of the parade made its way from University Blvd. Brevard Live Magazine is strictly over Babcock Street to Hibiscus Blvd. prohibited without the written Photos by Chuck Van Riper permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Phone: (321) 956-9207 [email protected] Legendary Guitarist Austin Pettit Passed Away COMMENTS & LETTERS The Space Coast lost a legendary musician, the Brevard Live Magazine music community lost their dearest friend. Austin P.O. Box 1452, Pettit shined his bright light on us with his bril- Melbourne, Fl 32902 liant guitar and his kind soul. After a long strug- Copyright © 2015 gle with health he passed away on Saturday, Jan- Brevard Live uary 24th, sourrounded by the love of his family. All rights reserved We are not responsible for photos Austin, a military brat, came to Satellite Beach in or scripts sent to Brevard Live 1967. He went to Satellite High School, and that’s Magazine. Published photos and when he started playing in bands: Tight Shoes, articles become property of this Grinderswitch, The Legendary Groove Mon- publication. We are not sters, Piece By Piece, The Austin Pettit Band, Mo responsible for wrongful advertised or canceled venues. Geetz, The Groove Shoes. His legendary guitar solos earned him the utmost respect and admi- Download a pdf file ration of his peers and fans. His positive spirit BREVARD made him the most loved musician in our com- FLORIDA munity. At press time information about funeral arrangements were not available. We will publish LIVE updates on our website at www.BrevardLive.com at www.brevardlive.com photo by Kevin Ward/BL Archive Brevard Live February 2015 - 9 10 - Brevard Live February 2015 Brevard Lately Concerts In Review: and fantastic songwriting partners. and played a beautiful rendition of his After a quick hello- they jumped right hit Our House. An Intimate into it. Throughout the second set Nash The first song of the night was the continued to roll through many of his Evening With Hollies hit Bus Stop written by Graham earlier songs as well as a slew of new Gouldman. I’m bringing up the song- tunes penned with Shayne Fontaine. Graham Nash writer on this one because it sparks a It just amazes me that this guy is still great story about a great song: In 1965 churning out great songs after all this By Matthew Bretz the Hollies manager had an employee time. Nearly six decades after his first who kept telling him about her teenage hit and still has something to say. He t goes without saying, although I’m son that was trying to become a song- just can’t stop writing, or being rel- Iabout to say it anyway, that Graham writer. She apparently was relentless evant for that matter - just amazing. Nash is a musical icon that transcends about him asking the Hollies to meet Another thing that really got me was the decades. Between the Crosby, him. When he finally succumbed and his voice. After half of a century on the Stills and Nash, and sometimes Young asked Graham to make a quick visit, road, and just living through the six- band, The Hollies, and his extensive it was just supposed to be a quick pat ties in general you would expect some solo catalogue, Nash has prolifically on the head to make mother and son wear and tear on the man’s throat, but churned out some of the greatest com- happy. As Graham tells it, when he that theory goes out the window with positions of British/Americana/SoCal/ walked into the living room of the Graham. He sounds just as good, if not Hippie-dom. Graham doesn’t get to go employee’s small flat there was a kid better, than he always has. off out on his own very often and re- of about fourteen or fifteen sitting on All in all the show was phenom- ally dig into his material with an audi- the couch with a guitar. Graham gave enal and once again the King Center ence, so when he does, he gets very ex- him the go ahead and the first song he delivered on another well run, com- cited. And, when Brevard found out he played was Bus Stop. The young man fortable event. I wasn’t sure what to was coming to hang at the King Center was, of course, Graham Gouldman and expect, I mean he could have brought with all of us for an evening, we got Nash was amazed. He made the deal a huge band and rocked us all out and excited, too. right there to buy it, and then asked for it would have been great. But to expe- I wasn’t sure what to expect from more. The Hollies left the house that rience Graham Nash’s music in an in- a Graham Nash show because of all of afternoon with three future hits writ- timate acoustic setting was more than I his past and current projects. The man ten by a teenager who would go on to could have hoped for. It’s always been started writing and singing when he have an amazing career writing for the a treat for me to learn the history behind was a teenager and only took a cou- Yardbirds and Herman’s Hermits be- the music and I was not disappointed. ple breathers to get married and have fore joining the band 10cc. Cheers to one of the most prolific and some kids. Otherwise he’s been going After that Nash and Fontaine greatest living singer-songwriters of non-stop for over fifty years. But when took the audience on a musical jour- our time. Keep it up Graham. I know I walked into the theater I was pleas- ney through time digging deep for a you will! antly surprised to see only a couple of show that spanned Nash’s entire career mics, a keyboard, and a few guitars on including Midas In Reverse, Golden stage. No drums, no bass, just enough Days, and Almost Gone which tells for a duo. Sometimes the best way to the story of Bradley Manning who see a great songwriter is a small in- was sentenced to thirty-five years in timate setting where you really get a prison in 2013 for stealing govern- feel for what was going on when they ment secrets. Along with the way we wrote their most personal stuff. A few were treated to stories about the songs minutes after I took my seat, Graham and insight into Nash’s life in general. Nash and guitarist Shayne Fontaine Two major highlights were Nash and walked out on stage. Shayne Fontaine Fontaine’s performance of I Used to has been with the Crosby, Stills and be King, a song Graham wrote for folk Nash band for a little over three years star Joni Mitchell after their romance now, and while they are on the road ended, and a tribute to the late great he and Graham share a bus.