Author: Vickie & Peter

Vickie grew up in Iowa. Lived in Silicon Valley & NYC. Peter has lived all over (NJ, NY, CH, IN, CA, MA, etc.) We chose to live and raise our family in Gloucester. Owners of gimmesound.com & Van Ness Group. Producers of gimmeLIVE concerts.

Mardi Gras with Henri Smith feat. Charles Neville TOMORROW 7:30 Benefit for Y TEENS REBUILD NEW ORLEANS III

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Don’t miss Grammy-winner Charles Neville with Henri Smith and a special Mardi Gras band featuring plenty of brass & percussion at Minglewood Tavern tomorrow at 7:30pm.  Tickets are $15 in advance (that means get them today) and $20 at the door.  10% of revenue from tickets, food & drink benefits Y TEENS REBUILD NEW ORLEANS III trip.

If you missed the interviews with Rick Doucette, see them here with Zack White and here with Steven Verga.

Don’t forget Allen Estes is gimmesound’s artist of the week and you can see him sing one of his most popular new songs, Beautiful Stranger, here (not yet available on any cd).

Allen Estes sings Brandy Jane

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Allen Estes sings Brandy Jane

One of Allen’s early songs (written during his first batch of 30 songs about 40 years ago), Brandy Jane has become a favorite of many people.

Allen is gimmesound’s Artist of the week and sings this and 3 other wonderful songs on his Local Music Seen special, which premieres Wednesday at 6:30pm on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.

You can catch Allen at the Rhumb Line tonight with Orville Giddings and some surprise guests. See full lineup here.

And don’t forget the Mardi Gras benefit for Y Teens on Tuesday when Grammy winner Charles Neville joins Henri Smith and his band New Orleans Friends & Flavours.  $15 in advance.  $20 at the door. Call 979-281-0223 for tickets.

Rick Doucette & Zack White ~ Mardi Gras Family Party

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Rick Doucette and Zack White preview the family Mardi Gras party starting at noon on Tuesday at Latitude 43 to help raise money for the Y TEENS REBUILD NEW ORLEANS III trip in April.

Grammy-winner Charles Neville joins Henri Smith following the party for a Mardi Gras benefit concert at 7pm.  Tickets are still available.  Call 978-281-0223.

More information here

Lots of high energy music tonight from Ska to Southern Rock.  See the full lineup here.

Rick Doucette previews April New Orleans Trip & Tuesday’s benefit to raise money for it

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Rick Doucette previews the third Y TEENS REBUILD NEW ORLEANS April Vacation trip and the benefit to raise money for that trip featuring Grammy-winner Charles Neville with Henri Smith New Orleans Friends & Flavours on Tuesday 2/21 (Mardi Gras) at Latitude 43 and Minglewood Tavern.

Call 978.281.0223 to reserve tickets and help the Y teens pay for the trip.

Take advantage of Gloucester’s #1 tourism marketing asset for FREE

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By now, everybody probably knows that the Web is the number one source of tourism information and referrals.  That’s why Tracey Muller and Jan Bordinaro, who started PR for Gloucester, organized a group of volunteers to save the City owned GloucesterMA.com from being turned off.  They asked Peter and me if we’d re-design the site to accomplish 4 major goals:

  1. Promote Gloucester’s authentic natural beauty, maritime & cultural heritage, food, music and arts.
  2. Build a database-driven engine and admin-system that empowers volunteers to ensure every Gloucester business is represented.
  3. Code the site in a way that helps to boost it’s search engine position.
  4. Make it work on a smartphone.

We agreed — and we donated our time along with many others to accomplish these goals.  Plus we added one more goal: promote the site.  For that we asked our good friend Joey C.  And what a job he did!  He gave us an ENTIRE WEEK of videos, podcasts and write ups!  I can’t imagine how he got any other work done that week.  THANKS JOEY.

Just in case anyone wonders, the City of Gloucester still owns, and has always owned, GloucesterMA.com.  The city of Gloucester offers the free listing as a public service.  GloucesterMA.com is managed by the volunteer group at no cost to the City.

It’s been just about a year since we launched.  Here’s what’s happening:

  • Traffic for 2011 was about 5 times the traffic for 2010.
  • The vast majority of traffic comes from Google & other search engines and nearly 80% of traffic is from new visitors.
  • GloucesterMA.com is the first or second search result for almost every search phrase containing the word “Gloucester”.
  • Percentage of mobile visitors shot up from 6% when we launched in March to 16% by the end of the year.

If your business serves travelers to Gloucester, you want to be sure your listing on GloucesterMA.com is up to date.  Notice the last bullet about smartphones?  In case you were wondering, smartphone usage is skyrocketing!  And if your phone number is on GloucesterMA.com, all smartphone users have to do is tap it and their phones will dial your number automatically!

So check www.GloucesterMA.com and be sure you’re listed.  If you’re not listed or your listing needs to be updated, click here:  and a volunteer will fix things as soon as we can.

Please remember, this is an all-volunteer effort to boost one of the three pillars of Gloucester’s economy.  We need your help to keep the information fresh and current.

Q: Who are the Wild Tchoupitoulas?

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A: Charles Neville’s Mardi Gras Indian tribe.  In this video, Henri Smith talks about bringing Charles Neville to Gloucester on Tuesday for Mardi Gras.

The video has some of the traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian music you’ll here as part of their concert to help raise money to send local teens to New Orleans for the third year of their service-learning trip led by Rick Doucette.

Show starts at 7:30pm at Minglewood Tavern (the front of Latitude 43).  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.  Seating is limited.  Call 978-281-0223 for tickets.

Teens currently scheduled to travel to New Orleans are:
Brian Amero, Courtney Ashwell, Katharine Boucher, Colby Ferris, Shannon Gallagher, Tyler Hurst, Alex Jones, Nick Lucido, Jared Marshall, Joey O’Brien, Emily Ohrtman, Zoe O’Leary, Emma Ottenheimer, Zeke Pasquarelli, Kevin Redmond, Mariah Salah, Evan Shay, Jenny Sonia, Ali Steer, Rina Takahashi, Steven Verga, Zachary White, Andrew Widtfeldt, Brittany Williams, Nikki Williamson and Caleb Wnorowski.

Don’t wait till Tuesday to go out and hear some great music – see tonight’s lineup.

Name Those Tunes!

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Yesterday, Peter talked with Henri Smith at Minglewood Tavern about how he’s bringing Charles Neville to Gloucester for Mardi Gras this year.  You’ll hear that he’s mixed some of Henri’s tunes into the video.  Can you name them?  Just reply to this post if you think you know.

Wednesday is the new Thursday, now featuring 3 excellent choices for music every week.  Check it out.

p.s., Thank you Laura Dow for giving Charles Neville an excellent view of Gloucester from Vista Motel.

Celebrate “Fat Tuesday” & Help Y Teens Rebuild New Orleans

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This year, Mardi Gras happens to be during School Vacation Week, so Lat43, Minglewood  & YMCA have cooked up a grand family party and concert to benefit the Y Teens trip to New Orleans in April.

The fun begins at noon at Latitude 43 with balloons, masks, beads, family style Cajun specials and more.

Then Charles Neville joins Henri Smith and his band New Orleans Friends & Flavours at 7pm at Minglewood.  Concert Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.  If you liked them at Celebrate Gloucester, you love this up close, personal chance to see them again.

10% of all proceeds from concert tickets, food and drink will be donated to the Y Teens Rebuild New Orleans III trip. Plus, the YMCA will sponsor barrel raffles featuring great prizes.

See the poster & list of teens going to New Orleans, below:

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The following teens have committed to work diligently to help put families back into their homes:
BRIAN AMERO, COURTNEY ASHWELL, KATHARINE BOUCHER, COLBY FERRIS, SHANNON GALLAGHER, TYLER HURST, ALEX JONES, NICK LUCIDO, JARED MARSHALL, JOEY O’BRIEN, EMILY OHRTMAN, ZOE O’LEARY, EMMA OTTENHEIMER,  ZEKE PASQUARELLI,  KEVIN REDMOND,  MARIAH SALAH, EVAN SHAY, JENNY SONIA, ALI STEER, RINA TAKAHASHI,  STEVEN VERGA,  ZACHARY WHITE, ANDREW WIDTFELDT, BRITTANY WILLIAMS, NIKKI WILLIAMSON, CALEB WNOROWSKI

Where’s Henri Smith?

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He’s the singer in the hat.  Watch the video and see him with Grammy Award winner Charles Neville on Big Chief, a signature New Orleans Mardi Gras song.  You can see Charles Neville with Henri Smith and his band in a rare, intimate setting at Minglewood Tavern on Mardi Gras (next Tuesday 2/21) to benefit Y Teens Rebuild New Orleans.  Check it out.

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Whitney Houston ~ We will miss you!

We’ll be watching the Grammys tonight, in part to see the tribute they added at the last minute to honor Whitney Houston, who died yesterday before she could attend the pre-Grammy party hosted by her friend, mentor and Arista Records founder Clive Davis.

For those of you who’d rather go out tonight, you’ve got plenty of choices.  See full lineup here.

Hit by a train? Shake? Steps? Is it really alligator?

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All your burning questions are answered in today’s video as T Max walks Gloucester’s music scene in the finale of gimmesound’s five part Artist of the Week series featuring Gloucester’s music media mogul.

Valentine’s weekend with lot’s of choices for lovers from T Max’s Lovely Couple’s show at the Dog Bar featuring Bird Mancini and Joe & Renee to Safety’s Valentine’s Party at Minglewood, and lots more.  See the full lineup here:

Another surprise guest musician

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Today’s video features a solo by a mystery guest (hint: local Main Street restaurateur).

If you’ve been following T Max on gimmesound.com this week, you know he’s founder and editor of The Noise Magazine, (New England’s longest running music magazine).

You may not yet fully appreciate him as a singer/songwriter.  Click here to see him on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes talking about his new album Shake and singing some songs from it.

There’s a wide variety of music tonight from Jazz to Rock to Piano Bar to DJ ~ take your pick but get out there!

Who’s the surprise guest today?

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Singer/songwriter and Noise Magazine founder/editor T Max continues walking Gloucester’s music scene in Part 3 of gimmesound’s Artist of the Week series:  Part 1 here & Part 2 here

Today he transforms a woman on the street into a new music fan with a shout out to Bandit Kings and a special appearance at the end by one of Gloucester’s best musicians, who rarely performs live.

Great music around town see the full list here and a Local Brews Beer Dinner with music ~ what more could you want?  Get out tonight and have some fun!

Who’s counting and why?

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Why is T-Max counting steps?  Maybe you can figure it out by watching part 2 in gimmesound’s 5 part series on walking Gloucester’s music scene.  If you missed yesterday’s video, you’ll want to watch it to find out what’s going on.  See it here:

Great music around town tonight – get out and enjoy it ~ you can see the full list here.

Is it Peter or is it T-Max?

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Watch this first of our 5 part video series where T-Max’s walks Gloucester’s music scene.  In this part 1 video you can see how T-Max got here and watch for his imitation of Peter.

Open mic, funk jam & KBMG tonight.  Get out and enjoy the music!

gimmesound features singer-songerwriter T Max

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TMax This week gimmesound features singer-songwriter T Max, who is also publisher of The Noise, New England’s longest running music magazine.

Check out his song, Shake, which he recorded on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes last summer.  Beginning tomorrow T Max will walk the music scene in Gloucester and tell us why he chose to move here (just having T Max in Gloucester is a true feather in our cap!)

Tonight is open jam at the Annie and at the Rhumb Line, get out and here some music.

The Great American Protest Song is Back!

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All week long, gimmesound’s artist of the week Inge Berge, featured his new Sh*t Under Your Shoes video that we produced together.

But no salute to Inge would be complete without featuring his excellent protest song, Prison Nation, which Inge produced into a compelling, poignant music video.  Check it out!

It’s a hoppin’ Saturday night on Cape Ann with 7 artists to choose from — DJ, Piano Bar, Classic Rock, Folk, etc.  Get the lineup here

What did Inge Berge do with all his "old stuff"?

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Well, he put it on a digital-only album that you can get on-line.  But what Inge calls “old stuff”, we call it an excellent mix of songs from soulful solos to highly produced tracks in Inge’s inimitable style.  Certainly worth a look.  Check it out.

Plenty of music and dancing in Gloucester tonight.  See full lineup

Peter & Inge in the bathroom – why?

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Inge used household items for all the percussion in his latest music video.  Here is a glimpse of the creative process in action.  Inge is very creative.

We are blessed with so many talented musicians around here.  Tonight you can see the amazing David Brown, David Mattack with Dave Sags at the Rhumb Line.  See the full lineup here.

What is Inge Berge banging on now?

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Inge Berge talks with Peter about his new song, the household implements he used for percussion and the video we shot together that features some of those very implements.  You can see the the music video here:

It’s Wednesday in Gloucester — and that means everybody’s got a special guest.  Fly’s got J.B. and Dennis has The Dejas.  See the full lineup here:

Inge Berge on TV

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Inge Berge is gimmesound’s artist of the week.  Inge Berge, a native of Norway , has made Gloucester his home.  Inge is a natural singer/song writer that combines passionate lyrics with memorable tunes that you can’t help but sing.  Check out the music video that gimmesound and Inge created together, it is a real treat.

Inge was also featured on Allen Estes TV show Local Music Seen and you can see the archive of the show here to get to know Inge more and hear some great music.  Inge isn’t playing out tonight but check out the other music in town.