Brevard Live October 2010 - 1 2 - Brevard Live October 2010 Brevard Live October 2010 - 3 4 - Brevard Live October 2010 Brevard Live October 2010 - 5 6 - Brevard Live October 2010 October 2010 • Volume 19, Issue 7 • Priceless FEATURES page 51 WINNERS! WINNERS! WINNERS! OKTOBERFEST If you missed Brevard’s most glamor- Get a little insight about the history about Columns ous event, here’s what you missed. If you this German festival that sells the most Charles Van Riper beer and attracts 6 million people. Then were one of the many attendants, relive Political Satire the great moments of the Brevard Live take this knowledge and soak it in some 32 Music Awards where everyone was a brewskies at our Brevard Oktoberfests. Calendars winner. Page 31 Page 9 Live Entertainment, 25 Theatre, Concerts, STYX STAN SOLOKO Festivals, Arts Spawned from a suburban Chicago base- He’s traveled, lived an exciting and in- ment in the early 70s, STYX would even- teresting life, and has shared the stage Brevard Scene tually transform into the virtual arena rock with Larry Corryell, Jockamo Gates, 34 What’s hot in prototype by the late 70s and early 80s. Richie Cole, Ira Sullivan, and others. Brevard Over the course of their career they’ve Page 37 released 15 studio albums, 6 best-of com- Modern Woman pilations, 4 live albums and has sold over BOBBY Q. BROWN It’s a woman’s life 30 million albums worldwide. 35 by Misti Blu Day Page 15 A few years ago Bobbi began to deviate from the realistic style of painting that she was known for. Although she con- Life & The Beach STAR WARS CELEBRATION V tinues to paint realistic marine life paint- 45 Relationship Only Jedis and storm troopers allowed ings such as manatees and sea turtles, she Column here. This is “Star Wars Celebration V”. has begun to get more experimental. by Matt Bretz Page 20 Page 42 Brevard Live October 2010 - 7 8 - Brevard Live October 2010 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most 7th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 19 years. PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke STAFF WINNERS! ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle MUSIC WRITERS Matt Bretz WINNERS! Chris Long Joan Bixby OUT & ABOUT WINNERS! Misti Blu Day Charlene Hemmle MC Chris Long All Photos by ART Tim Bretz Joan Bixby PHOTOGRAPHY By Matthew Bretz Misti Blu Day Tim Bretz nce again it’s COLUMNISTS come and gone Chuck Van Riper O Matt Bretz and we are left with Misti Blu Day Reproduction of any portion of a lot of happy mu- Brevard Live Magazine is strictly sicians, some new prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. trophies for the mantle, credit card ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Open Fire Phone: (321) 956-9207 bills for a couple Fax: (321) 956-9228 of limos, a freshly [email protected] infused Musician’s COMMENTS & LETTERS Fund and some Brevard Live Magazine P.O. Box 1452, beautiful memories Melbourne, Fl 32902 of what was proba- Copyright © 2010 bly the best Brevard Brevard Live Music Awards show All rights reserved to date. After a year We are not responsible for photos off Chris Long was or scripts sent to Brevard Live All About Nothing Magazine. Published photos and back in full force articles become property of this publication. We are not as the host with the responsible for wrongful most and rocked advertised or canceled venues. it. The show went off without a hitch Download a pdf file BREVARD and Long ran it so FLORIDA smoothly the end LIVE snuck up on us www.brevardfloridalive.com and left us wanting www.brevardlive.com more. continued page 11 www.floridalive.org Elephant Gun Brevard Live October 2010 - 9 10 - Brevard Live October 2010 7th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards WINNERS! WINNERS! WINNERS! The audience was an illus- After a few trious gathering of who’s who in more awards it was the fertile talent pool that is the time for one of my fa- Brevard music scene. A lot of local vorite guitarists to take the stage. favorites were there both as hope- Jamie Rickett has been working all ful nominees and support for oth- summer with her drummer/boy- ers including Switch, Who Was I? friend “K-Mac” on a new album. and Entertainer Of The Year win- I’m very excited to hear what she’s ner Open Fire. been up to but I’ll have to wait a Ana Kirby kicked off the night bit longer. For the show she opted with an absolutely flawless rendi- to tear through Santana’s Gypsy Ana Kirby tion of the Star Spangled Banner Queen and keep her new stuff un- setting the tone high for the rest of der wraps. Either way she killed - the night. but doesn’t she always? The Danny Morris band held the Close to the halfway mark stage warmly and confidently do- Chris took us through a very ing just what a good house band touching, very emotional moment does. My only disappointment was of remembrance for the friends we not getting to hear Morris rip it up lost this last year. It wasn’t any with his signature style. easy moment for any of us to get The second performance of through and I lost my composure the night was from rocker Jenny when Duane Soumi’s name was Walker as she pounced on us sing- announced. Shortly after Kenny ing “been a long time since I rock Clarke performed a haunting med- and rolled!”. It was a hot perfor- ley of songs he had personally mance and she hit on the spirit of played with each one of our broth- the song completely, feeding off ers passed on, including Hendrix’s the energy of the crowd and send- Little Wing in tribute to the late ing it right back. great Steve Thorpe. Jenny Walker continued page 13 Kenny Clarke Jamie Rickett Sammy Hill Brevard Live October 2010 - 11 12 - Brevard Live October 2010 7th Annual Brevard Live Music Awards WINNERS! WINNERS! WINNERS! After intermission the crowd settled back into their seats and we were intro- duced to Long’s teenage son, already tow- ering over his father. It was a nice touch to be reminded of the future of our scene after all the loss we felt this year. As tradition dictates the sponsors were paraded across the stage again to thank House band & Winner Danny Morris them for all they do and then it was time to announce the winner of the title Enter- tainer Of The Year. When the name Open Fire was announced the place erupted and you couldn’t help but feel like everyone in the room was a winner just by being there. Bill Howard It was a joyful moment and everyone was happy to share it with such a nice group of players. Afterwards for the third year in a row we all headed out to Lou’s Blues for the After Party and all the winners got to per- form. Along with them were award win- ners Elephant Gun, a band I was very happy to see take home a trophy. Julia Faith It was a great night and everyone en- joyed themselves. And why wouldn’t we? We’re all entertainers- we better to be able to entertain each other! A good party for a good cause…you can’t ask for more than that. Congratulations to all the winners and a special shout out to Brevard Live’s own Chuck Van Riper for taking home the award for favorite trumpet. Presenter Beverly Beach Sammy Hill Eric Hotton Our gracious sponsors Brevard Live October 2010 - 13 14 - Brevard Live October 2010 Shows & Concerts All photos by Ash Newell Thursday, October 21, 7:30 pm, King Center Photo By Robert Hoffman Styx Wednesday, October 20, 8 pm, King Center t’s the tour STYX fans have been waiting for. Tommy IShaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, Spyro Gyra guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Su- ounded in 1974 by saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, Spyro cherman (drums) and Ricky Phillips (bass), along with the FGyra have consistently been one of the commercially occasional surprise appearance by original bassist Chuck successfully pop-jazz groups of the past 30 years. This Panozzo are getting ready to head out on the U.S. concert jazz fusion band was originally formed in the mid-1970s trail again this year. However, for this round of dates, the in Buffalo, New York. With over 25 albums released and band has an extra-special treat planned. Along with the 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific classic hits, the band will be performing 1977’s The Grand as well as commercially successful groups of the scene. Illusion and 1978’s Pieces Of Eight in their entirety. Among their most successful hit singles are “Shaker Song” Spawned from a suburban Chicago basement in the and “Morning Dance”, which received significant play on early ‘70s, STYX would eventually transform into the vir- popular music radio stations, and are still frequently heard tual arena rock prototype by the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, nearly 30 years later on jazz and easy listening stations. due to a fondness for big rockers and soaring power bal- Their music, which has been influential in the devel- lads. Over the course of their 38-year career they’ve re- opment of smooth jazz, combines jazz with elements of leased 15 studio albums, 6 best-of compilations and 4 live R&B, funk and pop music.