Author: Joanne

Gloucester, MA: Victory Agents and The Studio on Rocky Neck are pleased announce Garfish will be appearing this Sunday at the 2010 Deck Party & Concert Series! These concerts will be donating a portion of the proceeds to the Gloucester Band Boosters. Garfish will be performing classic rock-n-roll music from1960’s, 70’sand 80’s with some contemporary songs that will get the crowd to its feet. 

The Studio on Rocky Neck boasts one of the largest outdoor decks in the Cape Ann area (right on the water); inside there is a large dance floor and a full bar, with water views. The Studio Restaurant is a Rocky Neck landmark, once the home of the Hugh Breckenridge Art School that was so important to American painting. Dockage is provided for visiting boaters. All summer series concerts will feature live music from some of the best bands in the area and all shows will have doors open at 5:30pm, show runs from 7 to 9pm. Free parking. 

The Gloucester Band Boosters are a group that supports instrumental and string music in Gloucester Public Schools. An organization of parents, businesses and community members that provides funding for much of the expenses associated with the Gloucester Elementary School band, String ensemble, as well as the O’Maley Middle School Concert, Marching and Jazz bands. 

The Boosters frequently provide music for civic celebrations and events such as Pride Stride. They are still providing this and many other important community services with our young musicians. Victory Agents, The Studio, and the artists participating in the summer series, are pleased to donate a portion of the proceeds from our shows, to music programs and education in the Gloucester schools. 

You can catch Garfish Sunday, August 15 at The Studio on Rocky Neck. Tickets are $10 at the door. 51 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, 978.283.4123
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Hoodoo Revelator

What: Special live rock n roll show.

When: FRIDAY THE 13TH-The most terrifyingly awesome Friday rawk show ever….

Where: Dog Bar!

How?!: by rocking your favorite originals as well as some hott b-sides (and there may just have to be a sing-a-long as well…) and with all that foxiness in one room on one dance floor, they are more than likely to be supplying you with all the makings of the best (re:you might get lucky) Friday the 13th. ever.

ALSO

Lucky Friday the 13th just so happens to represent a couple of very important birthdays, so look for cake!

Friday, August 13 • 9pm • 65 Main St • Gloucester. MA • Free

Listen here > http://www.myspace.com/chelseaberrymusic

The Foundation Room
The International House of Blues Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the arts to schools and communities with programs that promote cultural understanding and creative expression.
Each Coffee Corner is a unique opportunity to experience the most talented singer-songwriters and folk artists that the city has to offer. It no

Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents seem to have a knack for being ‘heard’ by just the right people at just the right time.

After gigging monthly at The Rhumb Line and all around New England since the release of their debut album ‘Keeping Time’ (Q-Dee Records) this past March, the band heard rumors that Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band had heard the record and was coming to check out one of their shows.  A few months later the rumor became that the Deelinquents were being considered for an opening slot for The J. Geils Band sometime down the road.  Then the band read in the Boston Globe that the opening slot in question was for the J. Geils Band / Aerosmith show at Fenway Park on August 14^th.  Two weeks after that article ran, they heard directly from a Peter Wolf representative that they’d been chosen to open the show and that news was confirmed the next day in the Globe.

They’ll be in Centerfield next Saturday, August 14 ^th, playing a half hour set starting at 5:30pm.  For fans of Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents (or J. Geils, or Aerosmith), the show is unfortunately sold out.

But fortunately they’ll be here on Cape Ann for a free show just two days earlier, August 12^th, returning to the site of their first ever show in Gloucester: Harbor Loop and the Cape Ann Concert Series.  The Harbor Loop show on Thursday, August 12^th begins at 6pm, is free to the public, and is all ages.

“It’s been an amazing run.  Playing our first shows in Gloucester and Cambridge just over a year ago and now getting this opportunity” says Dee’s guitar player and Gloucester resident Tony Goddess, who also runs the Bang-A-Song recording studio under CVS on Main St.  “I think it’s because we play music that people of all ages can enjoy.  Grandparents remember seeing our heroes like The Supremes and the Shangri-La’s on Ed Sullivan, and nowadays kids watch those same clips on YouTube after hearing those classic songs performed by American Idol contestants.  Hopefully our original songs fit right in alongside the “girl-group” hits.”

Another legendary performer also recently took note of Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents.  La La Brooks, the lead singer of Phil Spector’s first band, The Crystals, heard the band online, wrote them appreciatively about keeping the ‘girl-group’ sound and format (three girls dancing and singing in front of a big band) alive, and asked the Deelinquents to be her backup band.   After a show at PRECINCT in Somerville, and at Café 9 in New Haven this spring, they’ll be performing together again at Johnny D’s on September 9^th in Somerville, at The Bell House in Brooklyn on September 10^th, and at The Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans on September 24^th.

The Deelinquents formed around Jennifer D’Angora’s love of the old Motown/girl-group sounds, like those that La La Brooks made famous in the early sixties (“Da Doo Ron Ron” “Then He Kissed Me”), and she assembled her ‘dream’ band to bring her newly penned batch of songs to fruition.  In addition to her husband Ed Valauskas on bass (The Gravel Pit, The Gentlemen, Hot Stove Cool Music), Jenny Dee added local musician and owner of Bang-A-Song Studios, Tony Goddess (Papas Fritas, SAFETY) on lead guitar, Eric Salt (Electric City) on guitar, Eric Anderson (Schnockered) on drums, and Phil Aiken (Phil Aiken Army) on keys.  To ensure three-part harmonies and a three-female vocalist front line, she called on her sister, Beka D’Angora (of Salem), and Gloucester resident, Samantha Goddess (The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society).

The band spent much of 2009 recording at Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA, and performing throughout New England.  After the Spanish record label Lovemonk released a single (“Keeping Time” b/w “Shake Some Action”), the Deelinquents set out for a two week tour of Spain and sold out shows supporting Eli “Paperboy” Reed in Madrid, Barcelona, Castellon, Valencia, and finally at the Azkena Rock Festival in Vittoria-Gasteiz.

Their debut album “Keeping Time” (Q-Dee Records) was released in March of 2010, and shot to #5 on Amazon.com’s MP3 downloads chart, and the band’s cover of “Shake Some Action” by the Flamin’ Groovies was named by SPIN Magazine as one of the ’15 Songs You Must Hear Now’.   Festival shows followed at Pop Montreal in Montreal, Canada, as well as five showcase shows at South-by-Southwest in Austin, Texas, and an April residency at PRECINCT in Union Square with a guest appearance by La La Brooks.

Despite having shows booked in New York, Montreal, and New Orleans in the next month, Jenny Dee will also be back in Gloucester at The Rhumb Line, and will be recording material for their next album at Bang-A-Song Studios in Gloucester.

Says Goddess, “Everyone in the band, whether they live here or not, has spent time on the North Shore and knows how much people up here on Cape Ann love music, and know how much work you can do if you work hard.  Stepping up to the “3-set-make-em-dance” gigs in Gloucester at The Rhumb Line and Captain Carlos really made us realize what we are in this for: to make music fans dance and sing, just like J. Geils and Aerosmith and all the great bands did when they were working their way up .   Having to focus and tighten our show up for a full 3-set night of entertainment has made us into the kind of band we want to be.  I think playing The Rhumb Line for three hours a night is the best practice we could have had for thirty minutes at Fenway Park.”

Check them out right here on Cape Ann or at jennydeemusic.com before Peter Wolf scoops them up for a countrywide stadium tour!

Link to high-res band photo gallery (http://picasaweb.google.com/jennydeemusic/JennyDeeHighResPixByBethOram# – all photos by Beth Oram)

Ace of Base live at The Topside!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to give you a heads up about the entertainment this weekend. Also, some great food on the menu for tonight and tomorrow. The ever delicious Shrimp Vieste (with spinach, feta cheese, tomatoes, and garlic) Also tomorrow, come check out the half chicken or the Rack of baby back ribs (fall off the bone). For the entertainment, two of my favorites playing! Hope to see you there….

Tonight: Steppers Heaven: 8:00 pm
The smooth, sultry and soulful sound of music being played the way it was meant to be. The songs by Steppers Heaven are as cool as the other side of the pillow. The group is made up of Bobby Bishop (vocals/guitar), Terrell ‘Model T’ Brown (vocals/guitar) and their band. Blue Soul Meets Rock and Roll. Delivering a sound that is a mix of The Blues, R&B, Reggae and Rock, Steppers Heaven is music that you will feel. They draw from their wealth of experience to deliver mesmerizing live performances that hold audiences captive. Bobby and Terelle have been noted musicians in Boston for several years, having taken it to a level rarely seen these days…appearing on the radio, on TV, the paper, documentaries, the studio, and of course the stage. Check out more atwww.steppersheaven.com

Tomorrow: Ryan Faraday: 9:00 pm
Ryan puts on the best show I have seen live, and that includes all the huge concerts I’ve been to. At 24 years old, Ryan Fardy has had a fantastic start to his 9-year career.  He has played to crowds all over New England and the United States (Las Vegas, California, Florida…etc), and even Canada.  He has opened for the legendary Chaka Khan, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter, Mountain, Snoop Dogg, Rick Derringer, Hoobastank, and more.  He was also the featured cover story for Boston Blues Magazine at the age of 18. With an upbringing on the Boston Area blues scene, Ryan has created his own genre, mixing Blues, Rock, Funk, R&B, Soul, and Pop.  He is striving to make his songwriting ability known even though he still holds the “guitarslinger” tag throughout the Boston area.  His shows combine the inventiveness of Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, the passion of Eric Clapton, and the on stage intensity of Stevie Ray Vaughan.  Audiences typically find themselves in awe of his command of the guitar and of the stage, and have trouble believing that they are witnessing the talents of someone so young.  However, they don’t have any trouble believing that they are seeing a performer who has a very bright future. Check out more at www.ryanfardymusic.com

PS, no Ace of Base this weekend, but I’m still talking to Debbie Gibson…

Thursday – 9:00 – 12:00 ~ Dave Sags Blues party

Let’s see what Mr Dave Sags has to say about tonight,

Sorry I’m so late, but I’ve been busy harvesting potatoes in Maine all week. Now I gotta work off all that moose fat. So, to help me work it on out, jump up and spin around, I have to get the best. And so I do; in the form of Mario Perrett; cutie-pie saxist and world class vogelizer.
He’s been busy, too, as he just got back from supervising next October’s issue of Playboy Magazine’s photo shoot of “the Girls of Aroostock County”, a smashing success. Now he’s back home ready to tear it up and shake you to your very core.
Pushing the beat from behind will be Roger Brocklebank, Madhouse timebomb, on drumms, and possibly vocals, if he’s not feelin’ too shy, and, of course, Greg “Whammy Bar” T. on catarrh, as well as myself, on base. We’re gonna tear it up!

NEXT THURSDAY: Willie “Loco” Alexander and the boys from Brazil! Featuring Billy Loosigian and Stevie “ha-ha” Chaggaris. Get there early: free cold compresses to the first 50 victims.

Friday 9:00 to 12:30 ~ Bingo Fridays

Cape Ann’s hottest rock band ..you’ve seen them at Harbor Loop and in the horrible’s parade on The Rhumb line’s float

Bingo Fridays is breaking the mold of the traditional rock power trio by utilizing influences that vary from rock, blues, funk, jazz and reggae and combining them into an entirely unique sound. Well structured improvised passages and intricate, dance-able rhythms make performances consistently exciting.

Based out of the Greater Boston Area, Bingo Fridays features:

Jake Pardee- Guitar/ Lead Vocals

Pete Iannitto- Bass/ Backing Vocals

Aaron Zaroulis-Drums

http://www.myspace.com/bingofridays

Saturday- 9:00 to 12:30 ~ Local 28 -Dance, Dance, Dance

Our Alaskan songbird comes from her recent show at The House of Blues …a night of acoustic folk and rock

Chelsea Berry is a singer songwriter from the town of Chugiak, Alaska. She has lived and performed around her beautiful home state as well as in Chicago, Nashville, Boston, and, most recently, Cape Ann, MA. She has just finished a new original album which was released at the House of Blues in Boston on the 26th of June. Chelsea’s music is deep, earthy, and refreshing.. Her vocals are smooth and her lyrics poetic and identifiable to any listener. Her music falls somewhere between Sheryl Crow and Joni Mitchell.. With a little Alaskan edge.

http://www.myspace.com/chelseaberrymusic

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=132792763423820&ref=ts

If you do not have tickets to this show don’t worry because, you  see, Jenny Dee and The Deelinquents will also be appearing at The Harbor Loop Concert series on the 12 of August. Imagine that, not having to go over the bridge, even.