If you’re an American Idol fan, you might just want to cross the bridge this afternoon.
Angie Miller, who was graduated from Beverly High School last year, will be honored in a parade starting at Beverly City Hall today at 3pm ending with a free concert in the south fields at Beverly High Schoolat 4pm.
The Beverly Patch reports that Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon said he expects “thousands of people” for the “largest crowd we’ve ever assembled” during his 18 year tenure as Mayor.
Here’s a video of Angie performing Rihanna’s hit Diamonds
Then tonight there’s plenty of excellent music in Gloucester. See the full schedule here. Captain Carlos welcomes Jenny Dee and the Deelinquints back for what should be a great show.
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Just received word that tonight’s Garfish performance at Espresso’s is cancelled due to licensing issues at the establishment. Unfortunately it is beyond our control and are forced to cancel this gig. The band was so looking forward to playing tonight. We had been rehearsing real hard and had a bunch of new songs we were going to debut. Thanks for the support of all our fans that were planning to attend tonight and all the great publicity we received for the Garfish 2013 debut. Stay tuned for upcoming events. Wishing you all the best for this beautiful weekend………..Gar
GARFISH will be performing at Espresso’s Italian Grille, Saturday May 4th from 9:00pm to 12:00am. This is a public invited event and best of all, no cover charge! Espresso’s is located at 116 East Main Street, Gloucester. For additional information or dinner reservations please call 978-283-0600 or on the web www.espressoitaliangrille.com
Garfish will be performing classic rock-n-roll music from the 1960’s & 70’s along with current hits. The band performs their own renditions of classic songs by Bon Jovi, Jethro Tull, Styx, The Doors, Moody Blues, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Dropkick Murphys and others which will surely get the crowd to its feet.
The band consists of Jeff Worthley on piano, saxaphone, guitar and vocals along with fellow musicians: Kevin Lopes on lead vocals, Doug Comeau on guitar and vocals, Gary “Gar” Hiltz on bass and vocals and Walter Piscitello on drums and vocals.
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Joey and Craig setting up for podcast about Craig’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Movie Saturday night at The Farm. It was alot of fun watching them and great to have them in the hizzy.
E.J. Lefavour
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Hi Joe
We had 30 people from Warner Brothers Studio here today…they are planning to shoot some scenes inside The Rhumb Line..sometime in late June…the movie is ‘ The Judge’ starring Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., and Vera Famiga.
my best to youFred
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Written by guest author JoeAnn Hart. Originally posted on her blog Float
It’s so hopeless,” a young friend said, tossing a plastic water bottle in the trash. “I don’t believe in recycling.”
“Don’t believe?” I said, reaching into the garbage. “I didn’t know it was a religion.”
“It’s a faith. A faith that you’re doing the right thing. A feel-good gesture that masks a larger problem.”
As I dropped the bottle into the recycling receptacle, I felt that familiar spike of serotonin from having done my bit for the environment, and I knew she was right. Self-satisfaction with our little actions can keep us from taking up the larger, more difficult, actions. Recycling is grossly inefficient. Every year, Americans throw away three-hundred pounds of plastic per person, only ten percent of which gets recycled, and poorly recycled at that. Not only is it down-cycled into something like decking material, it uses an inordinate amount of energy in the process, as we truck empty water bottles all over the country. All this so we can re-use a toxic material? When we die, our bodies will decompose into a bit of carbon and methane. Plastic never disappears. It breaks down into smaller bits of polymer, releasing pseudo-estrogens and other hazardous chemicals in the process, until it is the size of a single molecule. This is where the waste stream meets the food chain. The molecules enter the water table under the landfills where they make their way to the sea, to be devoured by fish fooled into thinking it’s plankton. Then we eat the fish.
Read more: See JoeAnn’s blog Float for the rest of the story. JoeAnn is the author of the recently published novel Float.
Cover Artist Karen Ristuben
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Here’s what’s happening – from Lisa Smith @ Cape Ann TV:
Cape Ann TV Waltzes in with the Premiere of The Beeman Ballroom Experience Documentary in Conjunction with the Gloucester Fifth Grade Mad Hot Ball
What happens when you take a whole fifth grade class, mix in some cha-cha and waltzes, and what do you get? Join Cape Ann TV as they premiere, The Beeman Ballroom Experience, a half-hour documentary showcasing the four month journey of the Beeman Memorial Elementary School’s 2012 fifth grade students as they begin learning the steps to classic dances in their music classes to the District-Wide Mad Hot Ball Competition, and through these experiences mature and grow into confident young adolescents.
Started in the early 2000s, the Gloucester fifth grade dance program has been funded in part by the Gloucester Education Foundation (GEF) for all of the five Gloucester Elementary schools. Maggie Rosa, President of the Gloucester Education Foundation, says that the “Social skills these children learn are impressive.” Tina and Ron LaFlam, from Miss Tina’s School of Dance, teach the children the art of ballroom dancing. All the student’s hard work and hours of practicing culminates into a final Ball where each pair gets to dance for their families and a panel of judges. Carrie, one of the students interviewed, says that she was “scared” at the beginning of the dance program because she thought some were going to be better then others, but through the process realized that everyone was equal in their ability to dance.
This documentary shows how ballroom dancing still has a place in modern society. It was filmed by Cape Ann TV with CATV staff and Beeman parent volunteer, David Lufkin, and edited by Gordon College Student/Cape Ann TV intern Greg Dry and Cape Ann TV’s Lisa Smith. Ms. Wentzal and Ms. Lafata, two Beeman teachers who were interviewed in the film, say that the children take pride in their accomplishments at the end of the program and at the competition Ball, and that their academics became stronger as a reflection of the things they have learned.
Tune into Cape Ann TV Channel 12 for The Beeman Ballroom Experience on: Thursday, May 2 at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m.; Sunday May 5 at 9:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Tuesday, May 7 at 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, May 9 at 8:30 p.m.; Friday, May 10 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. For more programming information go to: CapeAnnTV.wordpress.com.
This year’s Gloucester Fifth Grade District-Wide Mad Hot Ballroom Competition is Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Award-winning, local, world-class composer Rob Bradshaw’s new work premieres this Sunday 5/5 at Gordon Chapel with 2 performances at 2:30 and 5pm. You may know Rob from over 20 works commissioned and performed about Cape Ann, including the cantata commemorating the Middle Street Fire, Requiem for Rockport and music for the dedication of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives statue and Schooner Adventure.
Beyond Gloucester, Rob’s works have been performed all over the world from Bangkok, Thailand, to Sydney, Australia. In America, his works have been heard in many prestigious venues including Lincoln Center and during The Kennedy Center’s 2010 International VSA Festival at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall.
Here’s what he says about Las Apariencias Engañan, which premieres on Saturday as part of The Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras Spring Afternoon Concert. This concert is free and open to the public and appeals to all ages. Each concert will last between an hour and two hours and both will be followed by a reception after the performance. The NMYO Silent Auction will take place during the concerts as well.
Las Apariencias Engañan, for orchestra, is inspired by Afro-Cuban Bembe rhythms. These rhythms, widely performed throughout Latin America, have dramatically influenced American popular music but have been lost in their original form for most listeners. This composition is intended to provide a fun and exciting way to help reintroduce this wonderful music to musicians and audiences.
As with all of my music, this work has a strong educational component and is intended to raise social awareness – in this case, of how Latin American music has influenced (and continues to influence) American music.Adam Hayes (Berry College) asked me to write a work inspired by Afro-Cuban Bembe Rhythms. If you are familiar with Latin American music, you know that the “clave” rhythm (and many variations) is an integral part of the music and culture. What you may or may not know is that these rhythms are also found throughout American music. We play them over different meters and this had led to Americans losing both the knowledge of our rhythmic heritage and more importantly, often the ability to even play or understand these wonderful rhythms in their original form.Although not a Bembe per se, every rhythm in the work is directly inspired by the rhythm of this style and common variations. For many months, I have been working closely with percussion faculty and other experts in the field, learning how to assimilate this style into my own work.
CiR: As Composer in Residence with the Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras it is my responsibility to teach students about the craft of composition and to inspire them to explore creativity through music. We work on a composition project each year where the students create elements of a larger work that I assemble and they perform at their May Concert.
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Everybody has their “start of the season” favorites. RD’s is a clam roll at Top Dog in Rockport (see Paul’s post about that here).
For Vickie, John and me it’s breakfast at Atlantis Oceanfront Cafe, which opens on Saturday.
For those of us who live here, hotels are not always top of mind, but this is one of the best breakfast places anywhere.
Fish Cakes Benedict
Gorgeous view of the atlantic and the Twin Lights. Warm, clean, sunny dining room. Relaxed environment with excellent sound. I know most people don’t consider sound high on their list of restaurant priorities, but I do.
It’s breakfast. That means morning. And the last thing I want to deal with first thing in the morning is loud ambient noise making it hard to talk–or even think–over breakfast.
Quiche with friut
Of course, the food is excellent–and fun. Spectacular sticky buns. Home-made corned beef hash, fish cakes, quiche, etc. They even have a Monte Cristo.
John loves the pancakes. Vickie usually has an omelet or quiche special. My favorite is the Lobster Eggs Benedict they often offer as a special. Whatever you choose, there’s no need for lunch. They’re open 7:30-11. You might want to call and see how busy they are 978-283-0014.
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The Cripple Cove Quintet featuring The Goddesses will be performing three sets of pre-Beatles and Pub Rock at The Rhumb Line on Friday, May 3rd starting at9:30pm. The CCQ consists of husband and wife harmonizing duo Tony and Samantha Goddess plus Pete Koeplin on drums, Ryan Alto on bass, and Geoff Small on guitar. No Cover/21+.
We’re lucky our Mayor isn’t an “off with their heads” kind of gal, or some people might be in trouble with those massive scissors she was wielding last night.
It was a wonderful celebration of the Center passing into the hands of the Rocky Neck Art Colony. We now have a permanent home, and a space where everyone in the community can come together and enjoy a great diversity of programming.
If you haven’t yet been to the Center, you owe it to yourself to stop by and visit soon. It is really a beautiful, warm and inviting space with lots of great things happening in it. Visit http://mail.rockyneckartcolony.org/ to see what’s coming up.
E.J. Lefavour
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This Thursday is the first night of our second SingerSongwriterShuffle, hosted by TMax and sponsored by The Noise! For our first week, we have performing in this order: TMax, Sunni Badore, Pete Lindberg, Brad Byrd, Amy Spillert, John Jerome and Janice Fullman. 7-10pm! Don’t miss it! Call for a table if you like, 978-879-4622
This was a year ago now… Time flies! A canvas giclée print of this shot will be for sale in the GMG section of EJ Lefavour’s gallery on Rocky Neck very soon. It was printed at Cape Ann Giclée, so the quality of the print is excellent.
The Northeast groundfishing industry faced the music Tuesday — and it was a dirge.
NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard informed members of Congress Tuesday that he was filing in the Federal Register catch limits and the overall fishing regime for the new fishing year starting today and carrying through 2015. And the briefing confirmed devastating cuts in the stocks on which the fleet of about 450 boats have depended.
Boats primarily from Gloucester, New Hampshire and Maine that fished for Gulf of Maine cod found their allocations cut by 78 percent, and many fishermen — including Joe Orlando, one of Gloucester’s best known and most vocal captains — said their businesses were rendered non-viable.
“Want to buy a boat?” said Orlando, who fishes from the 70-foot vessel Padre Pio. “I put it up for sale. I have no choice.”
We are a far cry from here when 1oo foot plus commercial fishing boats were tied up 4-5 abreast all around the harbor –
I’ll never forget graduation day from Bentley College when I was at a crossroad in my life. We still hadn’t left campus right after the graduation ceremony and I was wrestling with the decision between staying in school and becoming an economics professor or going to work at the dock. My dad said to me “Joe, there’s always gonna be fish and they’re always gonna need a place to unload them.” That was 1989.
Never could we have imagined how far and how fast it would all fall apart.
Our once might port is not even a tiny flicker of what it once was.
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GloucesterCast 4/30/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Chamber CEO Robert Heidt
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