Brevard Live January 2017- 1 2 - Brevard Live January 2017 Brevard Live January 2017- 3 4 - Brevard Live January 2017 Brevard Live January 2017- 5 6 - Brevard Live January 2017 Contents January 2017 FEATURES SEAFOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL PETER YARROW Now held at Shepard Park in Cocoa Columns Beach, the festival features the freshest Peter Yarrow found fame with the 1960s Charles Van Riper folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. seafood along with some amazing live entertainment: mega-star, singer- and 22 Political Satire Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) “The Column” one of the group’s greatest hits, “Puff, songwriter, legend John McLean and the Magic Dragon”. reggae legends, The Original Wailers. Page 17 Calendars Page 11 25 Live Entertainment, Concerts, Festivals TRAVIS DAIGLE IRELAND The next generation of “guitar heroes Take yourself to another time and place Local Download in the making” has arrived. Meet Travis and drink in the history of the enchant- by Andy Harrington Daigle who has recently recorded an EP 33 ing Emerald Isle. You haven’t been to Local Music Scene with the help of rock legends David Pas- Ireland until you’ve experienced all the torius and Kenny “Rhino” Earl. They are drunk, the loud, and the wild there is to In The Spotlight featured on our cover this month. offer. John Leach was among them. 35 by Matt Bretz Page 13 Page 17 Flori-duh! TITUSVILLE MARDI GRAS ANDY STANFIELD 36 by Charles Knight Historic downtown Titusville will trans- We first met Andy in 2012 when he ap- form into a New Orleans style French peared with his band Pipes of Pan during The Dope Doctor Quarter during the Titusville Mardi Gras the Original Music Series. Little did we Luis A. Delgado, CAP Street Party & Parade, on Saturday, Feb- know then that Andy was also a teacher 40 ruary 11. Molly Hatchet will perform. with a Ph.D. and a book author. Florida Arts Page 17 Page 44 44 Dr. A.K. 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Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2016 Photo above: Brevard Brevard Live County showed support for All rights reserved for “Standing with Standing We are not responsible for photos or scripts sent to Brevard Live Rock.” A few days later, the Magazine. Published photos and pipeline going through the articles become property of this Standing Rock reservation publication. We are not was denied. responsible for wrongful advertised or canceled venues. Photo left: Besides the great, fresh, seafood and great Download a pdf file music, the Thirsty Clam BREVARD now has over 20 parrots on FLORIDA display every day! Photos by LIVE Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live January 2017- 9 10 - Brevard Live January 2017 Brevard Live January 20, 7:30pm, King Center Studio, Melbourne Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) eter Yarrow is an American singer Pand songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group’s greatest hits, “Puff, the Magic Drag- on”. He is also a political activist and January 8, 2pm, has lent his support to causes that range Earl’s Hideaway, Sebastian from opposition to the Vietnam War to the creation of Operation Respect, an Victor Wainright organization that promotes tolerance ictor Wainwright (born Febru- and civility in schools. Vary 4, 1981) is a blues singer, Warner Brothers label released songwriter, and pianist. In 2013 and “Lemon Tree” by Peter, Paul and Mary Photo by Phil Konstantin 2014, Wainwright won the ‘Pinetop as a single in early 1962, then followed Perkins Piano Player of the Year’ at with the trio’s version of “If I Had a where their performance of “Blowin’ the Blues Music Award ceremonies. Hammer”, written in 1949 by Pete in the Wind” established it as a civil Also in 2013, his collaborative album, Seeger and Lee Hays to protest the rights anthem. Their version also spent Easy Livin’ , made the Top 10 in the imprisonment of Harlem City Council- weeks on Billboard’s easy listening US Billboard Top Blues Album chart. man Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. under the chart. By 1964 the 26-year-old Yarrow Wainwright’s musical style was de- Smith Act. “If I had a Hammer” gar- had joined the Board of the Newport scribed by the American Blues Scene nered two Grammy Awards in 1962. Folk Festival, where he had performed magazine in 2013 as “honky-tonk and The trio’s first album, the eponymous as an unknown just four years earlier. boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Peter, Paul & Mary remained in the Yarrow’s songwriting helped to Wainwright’s playing is simply beauti- Top Ten for ten months, in the Top create some of Peter, Paul and Mary’s ful madness.” Living Blues magazine Twenty for two years and sold more best-known songs, including “Puff, noted that “Wainwright serves as an than two million copies. The group the Magic Dragon”, “Day is Done,” electrifying guide to a good time – toured extensively and recorded nu- “Light One Candle”, and “The Great spinning tales, telling his listeners how merous albums, both live and in the Mandala”. As a member of that folk to beat the blues, and meticulously studio. In June 1963 they released a 7” music trio, he earned a 1996 Emmy conjuring raw soul and energy out of single of “Blowin’ in the Wind” by the nomination for the Great Performanc- his acoustic piano.” then relatively unknown, Bob Dylan, es special LifeLines Live, a highly Wainwright currently tours both also managed by Grossman. “Blowin’ acclaimed celebration of folk music, nationally and internationally, per- in the Wind” sold a phenomenal three with their musical mentors, contempo- forming with two bands: Southern hundred thousand copies in the first raries, and a new generation of singer/ Hospitality and Victor Wainwright & week of release and by August 17 songwriters. the WildRoots. was number two on the Billboard pop Peter Yarrow’s performance Victor Lawton Wainwright, Jr. chart, with sales exceeding one million weaves a narrative of his life in mu- was born in Savannah, Georgia. Both copies. Yarrow recalled that when he sic and politics, punctuating major his father and grandfather were blues told Dylan he would make more than events with renditions of the iconic musicians, and became Wainwright’s $5,000 (equivalent to $39,000 in 2015) songs we all know and love. From his early mentors, along with family from the publishing rights, Dylan was life in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, friend Pinetop Perkins. Wainwright’s speechless. On August 28, 1963, Pe- his connections to Bob Dylan & Pete own ensemble backed Eric Culberson ter, Paul and Mary appeared on stage Seeger and his career as part of Peter, at the Savannah Blues Bar, during the with the Reverend Martin Luther King Paul & Mary, Yarrow shares a part of former’s high school years. at his historic March on Washington American history influenced by music. Brevard Live January 2017- 11 12 - Brevard Live January 2017 Brevard Live Travis Daigle Heavy Metal Therapy By John Leach ventional therapy but things didn’t really improve until, at a very early age, he took the matter into his own two hands. “I hen talking with 20 year old Travis Daigle, the picked up a guitar at nine years old” he says. “My penman- first thing that hits you is his energy level. Waves ship and fine motor skills got better right away. Picking up ofW unbridled electricity flashing through his body the guitar changed my life completely - not only mentally make up a big part of who he is and help give his loud but physically. I’m very ADHD, ADD, all over the place all and powerful songwriting extra punch. A conversa- the time, I’m sure the motor skills thing had something to tion with Daigle is no walk in the park, it’s more like do with my ADD.” a heavy metal sleigh ride through a rocky mountain Right now, between the support he’s always got- pass. Of this fact he’s well aware - “After a few min- ten at home and his discovery of the electric guitar, Travis utes of talkin’ to me you’ll realize I’m all over the F’n Daigle is flying high in the heavy metal fast lane and cel- place man” - and, like he does so well with his his ebrating the release of his new EP Three Reasons. songwriting, he strives to keep his communication at Given the energy and complexity of a young man like a pace the rest of us can hang on to. Daigle, it’s no surprise his musical and songwriting abili- ties, along with his thundering guitar pyrotechnics, are self Travis and his family have been wrestling with his speed acquired. Daigle’s chemical make-up doesn’t combine to demons for all of his young life. “When I was a kid I had create what most would consider ‘a good student’.