Special: Tenderloin Tips over Salad!
Wednesdays Only!Hello everyone!
Wednesday, August 7th
This Week’s Host: ALLEN ESTES! Allen’s Special Guests: This week kicks off a busy August stretch for me.  I’ll be with
the Sail Rock Tour (Orleans, Christopher Cross, John Ford
Coley, Al Stewart, many more) hitting cities all over North
America. Â Allen Estes, once again, graciously steps in to keep
things rolling over the next few weeks. Â This Wednesday, he
brings the wonderful bluegrass group Old Cold Tater back to
the Rhumb Line stage.  You’ll love it! ~ Fly
Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Tenderloin Tips over Salad – Â $11.95(while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Upcoming… Aug 14: Allen Estes hosts w/guest Marina Evans
Aug 21: Allen Estes hosts w/guests The Backwoods Ramblers Looking forward…
…to seeing you there!  🙂 ~ Fly
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We try to let you know when there’s an opportunity to save money, enjoy music close to home that you can’t see every day and catch a rising star in an intimate local venue before he/she makes it big.
Perhaps you missed last year’s premiere of the Gloucester Blues Fest. Â Click here for some videos that will give you a sense of how much fun it was.
The Gloucester Blues Festival is only in its second year and already it’s one of Gloucester’s largest events, bringing world class blues to Stage Fort Park and introducing you to young, rising blues stars.
You really don’t want to miss this year. Â Click here for videos of all this year’s performers. Â And you really don’t want to pay extra just because you forgot to get your tickets early.
Greetings, comrades! And welcome to the People’s Blues Bash. This week we have that proletariat ping pong genius, Mr. Comrade Greg Luttrell. A long time supporter of the blues struggle, Com. GL has been given special dispensation to perform for the huddled masses here in the U.S.A. ,warding off uncontrollable opinions, and parlaying his great love for the Supreme Leader into a keening paroxysm of love. Catch him while you can. He is a regular at the Great Leap Forward Bar and Grill in Lohng Dhong, China for six months of the year. Now, We got him. His parole is almost up. It’s not often we get a political prisoner of the blues. He’s due to return to China in Sept., so ,girls, better put on that self-blinding eye shadow and ruby red laser lipstick and try to control your breathing!
But seriously, folks, Greg L. is a monster guitarist and vocalist and always gets everybody going into a big spin. Poor Andrew Jones…our drummer….hasn’t got a clue what he’s in for. I’m bringing smelling salts…
Special: Tenderloin Tips over Salad!
Wednesdays Only! Hello everyone! Wednesday, July 31st
Special Guest: BILL GLEASON!
His actual name is Howlin’ Blind Lemon Mississippi Delta Billy
Boy Junior Gleason, but we just like to call him Bill.  It’s the
genuine blues, folks.  He puts on a clinic every time. ~ Fly 🙂 Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm *Each week features a special, invited musical guest Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Tenderloin Tips over Salad – Â $11.95(while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good! Upcoming… Thank you, Allen Estes for hosting the next few weeks while
the Orleans/Sail Rock Summer Tour kicks into high gear!
Check my touring page at… Â http://www.flyamero.com/ Aug 7: Allen Estes hosts w/guests Old Cold Tater
Aug 14: Allen Estes hosts w/guest Marina Evans
Aug 21: Allen Estes hosts w/guests The Backwoods Ramblers Looking forward… …to seeing you there!  🙂 ~ Fly
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Over the past few years, we’ve profiled a number of rising stars from Cape Ann. Â Here’s our latest pick for whom to watch: Alexandra Valenti. Her insightful songs and endearing spirit captivate audiences and keep you listening, wanting more.
You can see her live at the Town Hall Stage at 3pm during Manchester’s Festival by the Sea this Saturday.  And you can be introduced to her on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes tomorrow (WED) at 6:30pm on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.  She sings three wonderfully original songs and speaks candidly — and with wisdom beyond her years — about the songwriting process and music business.  Here’s a taste of what you can expect:
“I’m on a tightrope, balancing myself so I don’t choke on fear.” Â You can tell she’s going places if she’s already writing lyrics like that. Â You might as well catch this rising star while you can close to home. Â It won’t be long before she’s playing big venues far away for a steep ticket price.
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Returning for an encore performance at Shalin Liu, Ann Hampton Callaway is a national multimedia superstar, having performed as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, and an actress in theatre and film. Considered an icon of the American songbook and known for a Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! (she even wrote the theme song for the TV show The Nanny), Callaway’s records are platinum selling. She has performed for President Clinton, shared the stage with superstars like Liza Minelli and Wynton Marsalis, and is a frequent guest performer for renowned symphonies, including The Boston Pops. Her passionate and spontaneous performances delight audiences around the country.
This just in from Ina Hahn & Lisa Hahn, Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport:
Due to the rain we are adding a performance TODAY at 11AM and we will still have the 5:30 performance. Â We hope to see everyone today!
“Quarry Dance 1”…performed by the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre at Halibut Point State Park in Rockport, Mass. during the summer of 2012 was so successful that Windhover Performing Arts Center (located in Rockport, Mass)  has invited choreographer, Dušan Týnek and his New York based modern dance company to develop a second installment , “Quarry Dance 2.”
Group photo of the dance company performing
This site-specific dance will be performed at privately owned Valley Pit Quarry, located at 7 Leverett Street in Lanesville (Gloucester) on Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 5:30p.m. and is open to the public free of charge. Contributions are welcome. Parking is available at the Lanesville Congregational Church at 1120 Washington Street across from Leverett Street on both days. Parking is also available at the Lanesville Community Center at 8 Vulcan Street on Friday, July 26thonly. Street parking is allowed on Emerald Street, as well as on one side of Washington Street. The performance will last about one hour.
Valley Pit Quarry has a unique history because its former owner, Sylvester Ahola, a Lanesville native, was one of the most talented and famous musicians of the 1920’s and 30’s, playing lead trumpet with over a dozen big bands and making over 2,000 records. After retirement in 1940’s, he hosted many sailing parties at the quarry as a way of celebrating these man-made wonders.
Today, almost 100 years later, Dušan Týnek takes on the challenge by creating a new dance that will reflect upon this special place and generate a new and fresh narrative. The dance will move naturally through the environment using perspective and the unique architecture created by the granite ledges, overhangs, cracks, cliffs and terraces. And the dancers will also be in contact with the water, using its sounds as an additional dimension to the dance. The entire quarry and its surroundings will become a stage.
The Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre is a dynamic, contemporary dance company based in Brooklyn, NY. Recently named one of the top 5 New York City dance companies of the year by the New York Times, they have toured throughout the U.S, Europe and Russia and have recently completed a series of successful performances at Baruch College in New York City. In September, they are scheduled to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in celebration of the company’s 10th anniversary. “ Terrific…striking…a high level of invention… Mr. Týnek is an undoubted talent.” NYTimes
Chairs will be provided for the audience, but people are welcome to bring their own chairs too, and people are encouraged to bring their own water and/or soft drinks.
Windhover is grateful to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation for their support and the funding which has made this event possible. We also wish to thank the Rockport and Gloucester Cultural Councils and The Donor Advised Fund of the Boston Foundation for their important contributions, as well as our many friends and supporters. We could not have achieved this without all of you.
Ina Hahn & Lisa Hahn, Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, Mass. 01966
978-546-3611Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â www.windhover.org
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Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Kaki King is a true iconoclast, a visionary musician/artist whose singular work rightly stands out amongst the easily formatted.  Over her decade-long career thus far, the Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer has recorded five extraordinarily diverse and distinctive LPs, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks (spanning Golden Globe-nominated work on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild to scoring – and appearing in as guitar-playing hand double – the acclaimed 2007 drama, August Rush), and played to ever-growing audiences on innumerable world tours.  Each twist and veer marked the turning of a page, another step forward on a truly exceptional musical path.  Beginning with 2002’s Everybody Loves You – to date, her only fully acoustic guitar recording.  Best known for her percussive, virtuosic take on string instruments, Brooklyn-based guitarist-composer Kaki King has expanded and reconceived the role of the solo instrumental artist, constantly kicking at the boundaries of what is expected. For her solo performance, she brings a collection of several rare instruments, including a harp guitar, a dojo, a hybrid between a guitar and koto that King made herself, and, of course, her custom Ovation Adamas guitar.
“Her command of the guitar creates a unique listening experience that explores every raw emotion.” -Paste Magazine
“Guitarist Kaki King’s rightful place is among kings of the strings.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Kaki King has never been just a guitarist. While her immaculately picked guitar remains the centerpiece, she creates immersive, organic and cinematic compositions.”
–Relix
The Choir of St. Mary’s Church from Maldon, in the County of Essex, in the United Kingdom, will sing a concert program of British classics including music of Britten, Stanford and William Byrd on Monday, July 29, at 7 p.m. at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 48 Middle St Gloucester. There is free parking at 33 Washington St. The public is welcome, there will be a free will offering. 978.283.1708
The Choir of St Mary’s, Maldon, is a mixed choir of adults and children which leads the worship Sunday by Sunday. The ethos of the choir is rooted in the rich tradition of Anglican Choral music but also draws heavily on continental experience, singing music from the sixteenth century to the present day. Formed, in its present guise, in January 2008, the choir has gained an enviable reputation both in the UK and around the world. They are now recognised as one of the best choirs in the Diocese of Chelmsford and receive frequent invitations to sing at special services and concerts in Chelmsford Cathedral and in parishes throughout Essex.
The choir’s first CD, A Maldon Christmas, was issued in 2009 and a second is currently in preparation. The choir gives an annual liturgical performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday, accompanied by professional original instrument ensemble, Spiritato. This moving event, complete with homily by the Bishop of Chelmsford, sees the church packed to capacity, with standing room only.
Touring is an important part of the choir’s schedule. Besides touring in the UK, they have sung in Germany and several times in Italy. This is the choir’s first trip across the Atlantic and they are delighted to be visiting their sister town of Malden, Mass., to which, along with the Parish of St Paul, they are extremely grateful for the kind hospitality they have received.
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Visiting Gloucester? Â Have friends in from out of town? Â You’re probably complaining to yourself that the weather isn’t cooperating, right? Â Not to worry! Â There’s lots to do in Gloucester and Cape Ann when the weather is lousy. Â Just be glad you’re not on Cape Cod, where there really isn’t much to do except go to the beach.
Just to see what he’d say I asked a friend, who grew up in Gloucester and now lives in NYC (owns a bar and writes for a New York Time Blog)Â why would New Yorkers come here instead of Cape Cod. Â Here’s the mini rant he wrote back:
Gloucester is a place for culture now, just like it was in the 1800s and 1900s. Contemporary culture is actually at its best here, maybe more so than any Mass city other than Boston and Cambridge. Where else can you buy fresh caught fish, see a great play, hear Henri Smith play a bar or watch the Met opera in 3D, attend a reading by a national author, eat lobster in the rough or a 3-star style meal, hike, jump quarries, dive off rocks into the ocean (there are no rocks on Cape Cod), mountain bike, drink a $2 beer in barroom full of fisherman, see the most beautiful boats in the world, go to a world class museum, etc etc.Â
You nailed it Ray! Â Below the video, we’ve listed another 15 things you can do on a rainy day. Â Just be glad you don’t live in England, where you wouldn’t expect the sun. Â As John Lennon put it in the Beatles classic, “I Am the Walrus”:
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
SEE 15 RAINY DAY IDEAS BELOW VIDEO:
Glazed – Paint Your Own Pottery & Glass Fusing 184 Washington St Gloucester MA 01930 Phone   978-283-5751
Cape Ann Lanes 53 Gloucester Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930-2256
(978) 283-9753
Next Monday 7/29, we’re filming two Local Music Seen with Allen Estes shows for Cape Ann TV at their studio at 38 Blackburn Center (see map).  Filming will begin around 2:30pm.  Allen’s guests will be Joe Thomas & Memory Lane of Giuseppe’s, who hosted the very popular Noise Magazine Singer Songwriter Shuffle.  There will be a break after filming Joe & Memory and then we’ll begin filming a show with very talented, young singer/songwriter Alexandra Valenti as Allen’s Guest.  Here’s Alexandra at the Singer Songwriter Shuffle.
People are welcome to attend as guests. Â If you’d like to attend, please be there by 2:30pm. And please be patient as we have to test sound and lights and often we have to move stuff around and mess with various gadgets to get things just right.
If you’d like to be notified, by email, of all future Local Music Seen with Allen Estes tapings (along with other concert info before the public knows) you can join our gimmeLIVE Concert Club here.
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Over the past few years, we’ve profiled a number of rising stars from Cape Ann. Â Here’s our latest pick for whom to watch: Alexandra Valenti. Her insightful songs and endearing spirit captivate audiences and keep you listening, wanting more.
Good Morning Gloucester 