Month: March 2012

Rising star shines on Gloucester this week

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Chelsea Berry introduced us to her good friend and fellow singer/songwriter, Megan Burtt at a house concert last night.  The fact that Chelsea has excellent taste in friends and musicians is proven by Megan.  She and Chelsea rocked the crowd.  We captured much of the concert on video.  Here’s one song and a captivating story.  Watch it and see why we chose this rising star as gimmesound’s Artist of the Week.

You can see Megan live at Alchemy on Wednesday (Chelsea will sit in too).  You may want to call ahead for reservations 978-281-3997.  The word is spreading fast that Megan and Chelsea are not to be missed!

“Ted’s Excellent Adventure Entertainment Extravaganza Fundraiser” Is coming soon ~ March 23, 2012

Posted on by Joanne

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http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1295780392/No-one-hurt-cats-rescued-on-Cleveland-Street

More info > https://www.facebook.com/events/296857940376886/

Chorus North Shore in Gloucester

Posted on by Matthew Green

Yesterday, Chorus North Shore performed a concert at St. Ann’s Church of Holy Family Parish.  The concert celebrates “80 years of choral performances”, including a selection of works performed throughout their history. Here are some photos:

CBS Boston Covers TheGMG/Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament And Huge Props Go Out!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Huge huge props to the players, the sponsors, the SPECTATORS, the Farm staff, to www.NextStepnet.org , to our photographers the Rabbit, Kim Smith, Donna Ardizzoni, Craig Kimberley and David Cox, to media coverage from Fox News, CBS and Desi Smith from The Gloucester Daily Times, to my boy Frankie Gwynne, fantastic organizer Rebecca Linquata, Ryan Cox, Noah Goldstein, THE MAN Matty K on the music and someone that worked somewhat silently throughout the whole day and deserves a lot of recognition as well, Brad Atkinson who made sure everything was handled professionally operations wise.

Honestly everyone worked in concert and without one single element of that whole equation the event wouldn’t have been half of what it was. The whole thing just spiraled toward the sky with positive energy throughout the day with the fans feeding off of the music feeding off of the players feeding off the smoothness of the awesome Farm Staff feeding off the backing by the sponsors feeding off Bill from Next Step who as the head of that organization steps up to the mike and proceeds to tear away his sweats to belt out the National Anthem wearing nothing but his speedo and tie.

Good on all of you who came out and supported it- each and every one of you played a major role in its success!

(anyone know if that cameraman from Fox got laid?)

I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE THE VIDEOS!!!!!

click on the pic to check out the CBS Boston website-

 

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These are the organizations who sponsored teams- Mamies Kitchen Muffin Tops, Passports Canadian Bacon, Good Morning Gloucester Rubber Rippers, Sugar Magnolias Team Shameless, The Farm Bar and Grill Ass with Class, Saving Private Ryan and Wood, North Shore Cross Fit Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle, , Ed Collard’s House Doctor’s Blinded By the White, Jungle Silkscreening Jungle Fever, Beverly Athletic Club Kiss Our BACsides, another Farm Team Swiss Farmy Knives, Maestranzi Brothers Red, White and Blue Balls, Muffy White Organizing and Manchester Athletic Club Hot Mess, Christina Sanchez’ Dirty Dodgers, Cape Ann brewing Nacho Libre, Cross Fit Cape Ann With Two Teams- Buns and Guns and Power Snatch, Dog Bar’ American Bacon and  Beach Gourmet’s Not In The Face

A message for all Gloucester folks from Doug Brendel, "The Outsidah" humor-columnist for the Ipswich Chronicle:

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

A message for all Gloucester folks from Doug Brendel, "The Outsidah" humor-columnist for the Ipswich Chronicle:

I know Ipswich isn’t Gloucester, but Joey will certify that I AM a longtime Friend of the Blog, so I hope all the good folks "back east" in Gloucester will come to our party on Thursday night!

We’re celebrating the release of my new cartoon-illustrated book, Only in Ipswich, poking fun at our fine little town, which people in Gloucester consider to be "out west." THE CARTOONS ARE FOR YOU, JOEY! I know you like the pictures more than the words. Hahaha!

The party is at Time & Tide Fine Art, 4 Market St., Ipswich, from 6 to 9 pm. Refreshments, lots of laughs, I’ll be reading some funny parts of the book, and autographing copies of the book until more sensible people make me stop. Yeah, you can buy the book that night if you want to, but you don’t have to.

Gloucester DOES get mentioned on page 83 of the book, in a bit about a friend of mine (an Ipswich town employee, no less!) who lived on Wingaersheek Beach until Hurricane Irene scared him away.

See ya Thursday night! Anyone can email me via unconventional@dougbrendel.com if they have any questions.

Doug Brendel

Doug'sbookcoverplain

EPIC. GMG/Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament Off The Chains

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

If you missed it I truly feel sorry for you. Way Way More Pictures and Videos To Come.  These From The Rabbit-

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Happy Birthday Mike!

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

Happy Birthday  to my boyfriend, Mike!  I picked up a wonderful strawberry shortcake cake  to celebrate from Jim’s Bake Shop.  Delicious! Very fresh and tastes just like strawberry shortcake.

jim's bakeshop cake

jim's strawberry shortcake

We also had a wonderful dinner at Azorean with tapas and sangria. Unfortunately for you, the food was all gone by the time I thought of taking out my camera.  We sat at the bar and Jacquie served us. Such friendly service and a great atmosphere! A perfect way to celebrate Mike’s birthday.

~Alicia

You Can Now Pin Us! Pinterest Share Button Under Each Post

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

With the huge success of Pinterest I and many others wrote WordPress asking for a Pin It! button under each post as a sharing option.  Well the folks at WordPress came through and it is now an option for those of you who use Pinterest to collect and share ideas.

I hear it’s very addictive.

So under each post (or if you don’t see it if you click on the title of that post) you will now have a Pinterest share button in addition to the Facebook, Twitter, email, Google +, Linked In and Press this buttons.

Here is a screen shot of what those options look like when you are viewing the blog on the website http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com as opposed to the nightly feed in your email.  Even if you subscribe and get the daily posts emailed to you at the end of the night you really ought to bookmark us as we update every hour on the hour from 6AM-8PM on the blog itself.

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Petition to support the new hotel is taking off: Over 300 signatures and counting!

Posted on by Ed Collard

Our group is growing at lightning speed!  Only 3 days ago, Citizens for Positive Change in Gloucester created a petition to support a new hotel on Pavilion Beach, near where a hotel stood for 65 years. (Click here to see that hotel). Our petition has touched a nerve, with over 100 people a day signing up to support the hotel and help Gloucester’s economy grow. Click here to sign our petition and see over 300 people who’ve already signed it.

Gloucester needs to move forward, not backward, and create jobs and a healthy economy that will give our young people a reason to stay and visitors a reason to come here. The hotel will create over 100 new full-time jobs, attract visitors whose spending will strengthen our downtown businesses, and generate revenue for the City from Meals, Rooms, and Property Taxes.  Let’s take the tax burden off the homeowner!

It’s time to say “Enough is enough” to those who’ve held Gloucester back. The tide is turning. Positive change is coming to Gloucester!

Join the movement. Visit us at www.WeLoveGloucester.org. You can share the petition with your friends on Facebook by clicking here.

Thanks,
Citizens for Positive Change in Gloucester

The Light in Gloucester

Posted on by Marty Luster

The Light in Gloucester

 

The light in Gloucester continues to awe me.

I saw it on my first visit a few years ago

and it has enraptured me ever since.

 

It’s not a single color, hue or cast-

more a unique quality of clarity

that allows the colors to show their best.

 

This magical light allows us to swim in

whatever tone happens to be present

at the moment, as we go about our lives.

 

It may be the soft pink of a late summer

afternoon at Smith’s Cove, the glow of sunrise

above Thacher Island, the lavender dusk

 

hugging the tidal river, the deep blue of the

sea and the sky on a crisp winter day or

the breathtaking golden aura of autumn

when the marshes explode.

 

It is always enchanting, even now; even

home on a winter morning, mystical light

floods my room through the large glass doors that allow

me to look out over this wonderland.

 

Marty Luster

Call For Performers for Nights on the Neck

Posted on by God's Morning

I am helping coordinate performers for Nights on the Neck this season.  We are going to try to have the season scheduled by the end of April, so we can get posters and publicity ready and out early this year.  Nights on the Neck are the first Thursday of the month, June-September.  The dates this year are June 7, July 5, August 2 and September 6, and the event runs from 5:30-9:30.  We expect to have about 8 performances along Rocky Neck each of the nights, with performance durations from 45 minutes to 1-1/2 hours.  Those of you who have performed here in the past already know how well attended and fun Nights on the Neck are.  This will be our first season as a newly designated Massachusetts Cultural District, so we are looking to really amp things up and offer a first class cultural event for the community and visitors to Cape Ann.  If you would like to perform, please email me at khanstudio@comcast.net with the date(s) you are available and the time that works best for you, as well as what you do, your performance duration, and specific needs.  Also, if you have a preference as to the gallery or location where you would like to perform, please let me know.  Some locations may also specifically request performers who have performed at their locations in the past, so we want to try to accommodate everyone as best we can.  Also email me with any other questions you might have. 

So as to create a well-rounded cultural event, and not upset our Rocky Neck neighbors, we are looking for performers that have something fun, thought provoking, unique, exciting, all ages appropriate, and not overly loud to offer.  If you are a musician, spoken word poet, juggler, dancer, comedian, writer, puppeteer, mentalist, hypnotist, storyteller, etc. who would like to be a part of creating a great Nights on the Neck experience, step forward.

E.J. Lefavour

First performance ever of Allen Estes’ new song

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Allen Estes sings his brand new song Be Safe My Son for the first time on his show Local Music Seen, which will air in April.  Here’s a preview.  He literally finished the song last week, so this is the very first time it’s been heard by anyone outside the studio (except his son, Dylan, of course).

Lots of music today starting at noon.  Our friend, Inge Berge, comes out of hibernation tonight at 8pm to appear at Giusseppe’s!

See full lineup here.