Brevard Live June 2011 - 1 2 - Brevard Live June 2011 Brevard Live June 2011 - 3 4 - Brevard Live June 2011 Brevard Live June 2011 - 5 6 - Brevard Live June 2011 Content june 2011 FEATURES page 51 BMA VOTING ONLINE HULK HOGAN The musicians and bands that will com- Not long ago Hulk Hogan and old friend Columns pete for this year’s Brevard Live Music Ravishing Rick Flair started up a new wrestling company with a bit of flare from Charles Van Riper Awards are nominated! You find the cat- Political Satire egories and names on the next page but the golden hay days calling it TNA (Total 22 - STOP! - this is NOT our ballot. To vote Non-stop Action). Matt Bretz went to his for your favorite musician/band go to TNA event being filmed for Spike TV. Calendars www.brevardlive.com. Page 18 25 Live Entertainment, Page 8 Theatre, Concerts, Festivals, Arts SPRING CLEANING SAVE A HEART FUNDRAISER The Henegar Center is having a make- Brevard Scene Our photographer and columnist Misti over. The dusty format of the “same old” What’s hot in Blu Day is in urgent need for a heart op- is out., and the new administration is open 33 eration. Please come to the fundraiser on for new ideas and better venues. Take an- Brevard July 3rd to help a 26-year-old mother and other look at the Henegar Center. our dear friend to pay for her surgery. Page 20 Hair Fitness Page 10 Pamper Yourself 41 by Ana Kirby PANTHER MINDI ABAIR It was Panther’s mural work that seemed Life & The Beach This concert featuring Mindi Abair is to garner the most attention, because they Relationship the 5th Annual Benefit for Children have a deliberate style of “vivid and bold 44 Column & More with Disabilities presented by Roland usage of colors and scale.” They helped by Matt Bretz Guilarte, founder of the Brevard Jazz Panther gain notoriety, and she calls Series/ Brevard Music Group. them her “bread and butter.” Page 13 Page 42 Brevard Live June 2011 - 7 8 - Brevard Live June 2011 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most 8th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 20 years. Vote For Your Favorite Band PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke and/or musician ONLINE! STAFF ACCOUNT MANAGER es, you read it right. In our efforts to Don’t worry, we will NOT use your e- Charlene Hemmle Yenhance the accuracy of our Brevard mail address for any other purposes than to MUSIC WRITERS Live Music Awards voting process we count your votes. Webmaster/wizard War- Matt Bretz moved it to the internet. Our webmaster ren Dodd has been a supporter of our local John Leach Warren Dodd of All Brevard Web Sites music scene for many years and is known Chris Long Misti Blu Day came up with a solution that will make it for his integrity. For those who don’t know OUT & ABOUT easier for all participants except for the him: He’s also the owner of spacecoastlive. Ana Kirby cheaters. com, where musicians and club owners can Charlene Hemmle Here is how it works: You go to www. post the music for free. This free web site ART brevardlive.com, our website, and click on has been serviced by Bob Rish. Terry Cronin III the tap called Brevard Live Music Awards We decided to print a list of the nomi- PHOTOGRAPHY Misti Blu Day Ballot. First enter your e-mail address, then nees for information purposes only. The Tim Bretz vote for your favorite artist in each category listings cannot be used as ballots. No mailed COLUMNISTS and click the button at the bottom of the bal- votes will be counted. Chuck Van Riper lot “Click here to vote now”. Within a few Now it’s up to you! Musicians and Matt Bretz minutes an email will be sent to you with bands, motivate your fans to vote for you! Scott Earwick a validation link. Click on the link in the May the most popular win! Reproduction of any portion of Brevard Live Magazine is strictly email message to make your vote count. prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES June 10/11: BBQ & Blues In Cocoa Village Phone: (321) 956-9207 starts on Friday when the for $5. There will be family Fax: (321) 956-9228 We reported in details in big rigs are rolling in, set- fun everywhere: Kids’ zone, [email protected] our last month’s issue about this festival in Cocoa Vil- ting up and preparing for a corn hole tournament, craft COMMENTS & LETTERS lage, and this is a reminder professional competition. vendor, sponsor tents and Brevard Live Magazine not to miss out on the tasty But it’s Saturday when the non-BBQ food vendors. P.O. Box 1452, BBQ and the line-up of ac- public will get a taste of it. At Noon you can hear Melbourne, Fl 32902 claimed blues musicians on Starting at 11 am ev- some of the finest blues eryone is invited to taste musician in the State of Copyright © 2011 Saturday starting at Noon. Brevard Live The BBQ Cook Off “the people’s choice” BBQ Florida who have traveled All rights reserved from all over to perform at this event: The Nouveaux We are not responsible for photos Honkies, Little Mike & The or scripts sent to Brevard Live Tornadoes, Jim Mckaba, Magazine. Published photos and Shaun Rounds, and Bre- articles become property of this publication. We are not vard’s very own Josh Miller responsible for wrongful Blues Revue. advertised or canceled venues. A portion of the pro- ceeds are going to Music Download a pdf file in Schools through Brevard BREVARD Schools Foundation. The FLORIDA event is put on by the His- toric Cocoa Village Asso- LIVE ciation which is the mer- www.brevardfloridalive.com chants association in Cocoa www.brevardlive.com www.floridalive.org photo courtesy of the SC Blues Society Village. Brevard Live June 2011 - 9 10 - Brevard Live June 2011 Brevard Live July 3rd, 8 pm, 321Local in Cocoa Village Save A Heart Fundraiser For Misti Blu Day e have promoted many benefit concerts in Wthe past 20 years but this one hits home. Misti Blu Day, our 26-year-old photographer and writer, mother of three lovely children, needs heart surgery. Like many young and free-lancing people, she has no health-insurance or funds to pay for an expensive operation set for July 6th at Florida Hos- pital in Orlando. Her only security net are we, her friends and supporters. Misti was born with Supraventric- was not her complaint. Finally in 2004, Several fundraisers have been or- ular Tachycardia and did not get diag- a doctor discharged her again and said ganized. The next event is the Musi- nosed until the age of 15. She finally that her blood work and EKG were cathon at Murdocks in Cocoa Village had a cardiac ablation in 2003 and fine, however, he heard a heart mumur on June 6th from 6 to 9pm. Performers another one six weeks after. She had while she was not in SVT. Misti, who are The Dull Blades, Misti’s husband her third ablation in 2007 and finally makes sure to get every medical report Paul Sikes from The High Fevers, Josh her fourth attempt in October of 2010, after every visit and test, knew that a Miller, Russ Jones, Chuck Crawford, which was most sucessful. She rarely murmur has never been reported. After and more. has episodes of SVT now but does cur- explaining that to the doctor, she was A non-profit organization, the rently have Inappropriate Sinus Tachy- admitted and then diagnosed. Misti Blu Day Heart Fund, has been cardia. Doctors are assuming that dur- After this long battle of doctor set up and if you are able to donate ing her first and second ablation, the appointments, tests, operationsm, and visit mistibluheartfund.bbnow.org. catheter had punctured through her hospitalizations, Misti has found the A great concert on July 3rd is be- aortic valve, causing the Aortic Re- right surgeon and is ready for the sur- ing organized with the help of Brevard gurgitaion that she has today. She was gery that she needs. Live Magazine. You can expect many diagnosed with Aortic Insufficentcy in Her friends are hoping to raise great bands and lots of other activities. 2004 after going to the ER regularly af- money so that she can pay her medi- If you want to participate or volunteer ter her ablations in 2003 and complain- cal bills, medication, and out of work email us at [email protected] or ing of chest discomfort. Most doctors expenses. This surgery is needed to [email protected]. dismissed her complaints since she was prevent irriversable damage due from Show a heart to save the heart of a not having SVT episodes, though that heart failure. talented young woman. Brevard Live June 2011 - 11 12 - Brevard Live June 2011 Brevard Live July 9th, 8:30 pm, indi Abair was born at the King Center, Melbourne Min St. Petersburg, Florida, and is catego- rized as an American Mindi Abair smooth jazz saxophon- ist with a strong Top-40 pop music background. Mindi has toured and/ or recorded with the Backstreet Boys, Duran Duran, Mandy Moore, Josh Groban, Adam Sandler, Keb’ Mo’, Lalah Hathaway, Lee Ritenour, Teena Marie, John Tesh, Bobby Lyle, Jonathan Butler, Peter White and Rick Braun. A Benefit Concert for Children with Disabilities Saxophonist/Singer/Songwriter Mindi Abair has not tured on this season of “American Idol” as a soloist with only set sonic trends, but has broken all the boundaries as Paul McDonald and Casey Abrams, won Best International she continues to define the less traditional future of jazz.