Good Morning Gloucester

Hi there,
I hope your summer is going well J I would love to let the community know that Endicott Gloucester is having another Open House on Thursday, August 7^th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. We would love to sit and chat with any folks who are interested in pursuing an education. Classes begin right after Labor Day! Hope to see you at 33 Commercial Street!
Best,
Jodi

Jodi Frithsen
Staff Assistant/Recruiter
Endicott College
33 Commercial St
Gloucester, Ma
(978) 879-4250

The Magic of Peter Pan comes to Annisquam August 5-10, 2014

When Tinker Bell and Peter Pan fly through the Darling children’s window, life suddenly takes a magical turn. Pirates, mermaids, exotic animals, the Lost Boys, Indians, and, of course, Captain Hook, fill Neverland with exciting adventures that include flying! Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie‘s 1904 play Peter Pan, a show that has enjoyed several revivals on Broadway and beyond. Join the Annisquam Village Players for their rendition of this musical classic, and refuse to grow up!

Annisquam Village Players Present

Peter Pan

Tuesday – Sunday, August 5 – 10, 2014

7:30 p.m.

Annisquam Village Hall

36 Leonard Street, Gloucester MA

Ticket Prices: Reserved Seating $32 • General Admission $16

General Admission and Reserved Seating Tickets can be ordered online.

Go to www.annisquamvillageplayers.com and click on “Tickets”.

General Admission tickets also available after July 16th at the following locations:

The Annisquam Exchange

32 Leonard St., Gloucester • 978.281.0358

Common Crow Natural Market, 6 Elm Street, Gloucester • 978.283.1665

Main Street Arts & Antiques, 124 Main St., Gloucester • 978.281.1531

Lula’s Pantry, 5 Dock Square, Rockport • 978.546.0010

Ticket Information: annisquamvillageplayers.com

The Annisquam Village Players have been providing community theatre since 1917. The  mission of the AVP to provide an opportunity for local Cape Ann residents, young and older, to engage and develop their talents for musical theater. For two months every summer, we rehearse scenes, music, songs and dances; create sets, design costumes, prepare lights and sound, hawk tickets, set up chairs and welcome the audience, all in the hope of offering an experience — a brief midsummer night’s dream — that will engage, entertain and enrich our community, and that will provide lasting memories for our friends and children to pass on.

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION invites you to its Gala “A Taste of Art Auction Event 2014”, Sat August 16th, 2014.  Doors Open at 5:30 pm.

A Gala of Great Art, Great Food, Great Wine, Great Fun!

Rosalie Sidoti “Buttercup” 25.5×31.5

The North Shore Arts Association, home to some of our most acclaimed American representational artists, invites you to its Annual Fundraising Auction where in an exciting auction atmosphere you can bid to own some of Cape Ann’s finest representational art.
     Created and generously donated by their artist members, ninety-four juried pieces by these acclaimed artists and sculptors will be auctioned.   “This is our major fundraising event of the year, and it is the artists’ generosity and the support of the Cape Ann community that keeps our ninety-two year old organization afloat and sustains its continued artistic contributions,”  says event Chairwoman, Rosalie Sidoti. 
    This gala celebration will offer a Wine Raffle, a Spirits Tasting, and Tapas Tables.   The Board  of Trustees has donated fifty vintage bottles of wine to be raffled off to the fortunate winner as a complete  Instant Wine Cellar.  There will be a complimentary Spirits Tasting with a variety of liquors donated by Ryan and Woods Distilleries, and complimentary Tapas Tables offered by local restaurants:  Duckworth’s, ‘525’ Restaurant, Latitude 43, Lobsta Land, The Studio and The Rudder.  Local entrepreneur and art collector John Archer will be the presiding Auctioneer.
    Come celebrate this special opportunity to own and add spectacular artwork to your collection!  Major sponsors supporting the event are The Building Center, Bank Gloucester, Art New England Magazine and Serenitee Restaurant Group.
    The North Shore Arts Association’s galleries are open, free to the public, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m. 
    More information on all North Shore Arts Association events is available by visiting  their website at http://www.nsarts.org, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.

KenKnowles, “Schooner Races”12×16”

We are gearing up for Illumination Weekend starting Friday August 8^th.  There will be lanterns going up all over town starting Friday Night.  We have an Art instillation that will also begin Friday night.  On Saturday the 9^th we will start the afternoon with Activities at Firehouse Trust beginning at 12:30.  We will have children’s crafts, face painting and free popcorn given out by the Institute of Savings.  There will be a great phot opportunity.  It will also be your last chance to buy Ken Knowles Raffle tickets for his original painting.  The drawing will be at 6:30 at the bandstand.  If you want to purchase a ticket you can buy them at Katie’s gift shop.  The evening will end with a Fireworks display over Sandy Bay at 9:30.  Like us on FACEBOOK “Rockport Fireworks”. If you are interested in donating you can send a check to Rockport National Bank 37 King Street.  Call Susan at 546-9566 for more information.

HARVEY MAPCASE

Dot Kill Dot

Out 18^th of August 2014

Salem band devotes new album to promoting wildlife rehabilitation center Cape Ann Wildlife. Half of all album sales will go to benefit the Gloucester non-profit.

Album launch-party to double as fundraiser.

Neil Carlill has made a lot of albums with a lot of different people over his twenty-year career, but for the British singer/songwriter/bird fanatic (now a resident of Salem, Mass.), this one is special, as it fulfills a longtime fancy, and serves a beloved cause. Dot Kill Dot is the debut album from Harvey Mapcase, the outfit Carlill formed with drummer Doug Allen in 2011, with former Thee Hydrogen Terrors guitarist Matt White completing the three-piece on bass in 2012. This is Carlill’s first time fronting a fixed ensemble in many years, and, after a decade of joint projects, it marks a return to solo songwriting. This is also the first of his records to be brought out 100% independently, under his King Harvey label. Such unprecedented autonomy led Carlill to muse about how he could meaningfully link the project to his passion for avian creatures, combining his twin obsessions in a way that could benefit the latter, while perhaps making the former a more rewarding endeavor. Meanwhile, even as the album was shaping up to be his most inspired yet, Neil found himself weighed down by concerns about his friend and go-to bird expert, Jodi Swenson. A licensed wildlife rehabilitator, Swenson founded and operates Cape Ann Wildlife (CAW), a rescue, rehab, and release facility in Gloucester, Mass, caring for sick and injured wild birds and small animals. An ailing sparrow Neil found in the road first brought him to CAW in 2009, where he was deeply impressed by Swenson’s dedication. Then, over the years, there was the fledgling chickadee by the rubbish bins, the baby starling in the attic, and countless more instances wherein Swenson’s compassion and expertise were invaluable. “I have the highest admiration for what Jodi does,” Neil says. When financial difficulties threatened to close the non-profit, Neil knew he wanted to do whatever he could to help Jodi.

“It was already turning out to the ‘birdiest’ album I ever wrote,” says Carlill (Songs bear titles like “Bali Starlings,” “Screech Owls,” and “Ravens Pick Locks”—rumor has it, they can.) “So tying it to Cape Ann Wildlife just seemed obvious.” The album has other themes: “aging, the accumulation of time’s ravages, the race against the inevitable fading of the senses. . . . I suppose you could see the birds in the lyrics as wistful representations of youth, vitality, freedom . . . but mostly they just represent birds. Birds are elemental.” Musically, the album is stirringly melodic in the best tradition of Elliott Smith, later Beatles, Big Star (etc.), and as lithe and inventive as an offspring of Beefheart’sTrout Mask Replica and Electric Warrior by T. Rex, that grew up listening to The Fall. Carlill’s most intricate guitar work to date and Allen’s versatile, ingenious drumming form the musical core. Neil and Doug’s arrangements are stripped down to the naked essentials, with White bestowing sweet vocal harmonies. Production on the record, by Berlin-based producer Jayrope, was kept deliberately raw and unobtrusive, leaving room for the trio’s kaleidoscopic cadences and ever-transforming rhythms. Tracks like the flamenco-hued “Hysteria,” and the arresting “It’s a Ritual,” which snakes fluently through the abrupt yet graceful hairpin turns that epitomize Carlill’s song structures, highlight the band’s intelligent interpretation of alternative pop/art-rock.

Carlill first earned esteem in the 1990s as leader of the U.K. band Delicatessen (Big Life/Starfish Records), whose esoteric, sultry, subterranean sound, as compelling as it was anomalous in that Britpop epoch, moved the Melody Maker to praise the Leicester foursome as “the salvation of pop music.” (Earlier this year, Taylor Parks, writing in thequietus.com, singled-out Delicatessen’s 1994 song “C.F. Kane” as a beacon of quality in the long dark night that was British pop in the 90’s. Seehttp://thequietus.com/articles/15092-blur-parklife-anniversary-review.) Later, Carlill swerved into top-40 territory with the London-based pop “supergroup” Lodger (Island Records) before relocating to America and teaming up with guitarist Warren Cuccurullo to form Chicanery for one eponymous album, which appeared in 2010. Other projects include the avant-garde, trans-Atlantic techno outfit Vedette (Stilll records) and atmospheric, post-punk oddity Me Me the Moth (Titicacaman records). In 2011, Carlill contributed to the Three on a Match project, a musical homage to the films of Bette Davis, along with his favorite fellow musician, the amazingly gifted King Toad(a.k.a. Jamal River, of Iowa City). Their plans for further collaboration came to a tragic end when River took his own life at age 35, in July 2013. It is impossible to overstate the influence King Toad’s work has had on Carlill’s own, and Dot Kill Dot is dedicated to River’s memory.

Though the album will be for sale in digital format from iTunes and Bandcamp, Neil hopes people will plump for the beautifully packaged CD, with its cover painting and stunning bird photographs created explicitly for the project by Portland, OR artists Junko Susuki and Shawn Martin, respectively. As for the title, Neil explains, “Dot Kill Dotis, in one sense, a reference to our modern culture of hostility, particularly the way the remote, anonymous nature of internet communication brings out the brutality in people.” But it’s also a bird thing: “I was on a pre-dawn drive and I could hear this birdcall, loud and clear like a whippoorwill’s, but it sounded like ‘dut-keeeel-dut /dut-keeeel-dut.’ This was after I had written the title track for the album. I thought, perfect.”

HARVEY MAPCASE (with Reindeer, Olneyville Sound System and This Day in History), play at the Church of Boston on August 28 to launch the new album, Dot Kill Dot, and raise funds for CAW. For more information, visit CAWinc.org and harveymapcase.com.

Chief Len Campanello Joins Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association in Support of House Version of Gun Bill

Police Chief Leonard Campanello, with the steadfast support of Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk, joins the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association in support of the House of Representatives version of the pending gun legislation.

As an active member of the Chiefs Association, Chief Campanello is following this important bill closely. He is disappointed to learn that the Senate Bill, S#2284 lacks a critical public safety provision found in the House Bill, H#4278. That provision gives police chiefs discretion in issuing rifle and shotgun licenses. Currently, Massachusetts law allows police chiefs absolute discretion in issuing handgun licenses, but no discretion in issuing rifle and shotgun licenses. The House bill would close that dangerous loop hole.

When polled in June by the Princeton Research Associates, the majority of Massachusetts voters were also in favor of police chiefs having discretion in licensing for rifles and shotguns. 

Statement of Chief Campanello:

“The House bill is far superior to the senate version of the bill because it recognizes the importance of police chief discretion in issuing rifle and shotgun licenses. Police chiefs are generally in the best position to know who in their community is a threat to themselves, their partners, families and public safety.

“As the law stands, I may know that my officers have been called to a house 15 times to respond to a dangerously mentally ill person or domestic dispute where no charges were filed, but still have to give this person a rifle or shotgun when they apply for one. It does not make sense. This is why I support police chief discretion, it’s just commonsense in order to keep our community safe.

“Gloucester is fortunate to have a senator on the conference committee for the two guns bills, I just hope our Senator Bruce Tarr will take this opportunity to protect his community rather than cater to National groups like the NRA.

“Mayor Kirk and I stand together in supporting the House version of this bill, and we urge others to do the same.” 

July 18th, 2014. Engaging the residents with movement. The Gloucester COA Singing Seniors at the Harbor Light House in Beverly, directed by “Jayzee.”

To book the COA Singing Seniors, please contact Jayzee (Jorgelina Zeoli) at 978.768.7371 or jayzee.miracles@gmail.com

Hi Joey,

Ken Riehl suggested I contact you regarding our upcoming bike ride to benefit Neurofibromatosis Northeast.  Coast to the Cure NF takes place on Saturday, September 6^th.  The event features both an On Road and Mountain Bike Challenge.  The On Road course consists of three routes (24, 66 and 100) and begins and ends at Stage Fort Park.  Participants from both rides gather at Stage Fort Park for a post ride barbeque.  I’ve attached a press release on the event specifics.  This is the second year the event has emanated from Gloucester.  Up until now our riders consist of NF friends and families.  Ideally we would like to attract more of a Gloucester following.  I was hoping you provide assistance with spreading the word.

I’m grateful for any support you can provide.

Thanks so much,

Sonja

The 4th Annual Coast to the Cure, a bike ride featuring both On-Road and Mountain Bike Courses to benefit Neurofibromatosis Northeast, will take place on Saturday, September 6.  The Road Course begins and ends at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester and offers three routes of varying lengths:  24, 64 and 100 miles.  The route winds through the picturesque North Shore, home to beautiful ocean views and quaint small towns. The Mountain Bike Ride takes place at the Beverly Commons/Greenwood Forest in Beverly Farms (adjacent to Glen Urquhart School) with a course designed to meet requirements of all levels.  Advanced riders will find high speed descent and technical climbs, while intermediate and beginner bikers will have alternative lines through a wooded 6 mile loop.  At the rides conclusion, all participants enjoy a celebratory cookout at Stage Fort Park. 

Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that causes tumors to grow on the nerves anywhere in or on the body at any time and affects three times as many people than muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis combined.  Proceeds from Coast to the Cure will go towards neurofibromatosis research. 

Please call the Neurofibromatosis Northeast Office for more information (781) 272-9936 or visit the Neurofibromatosis Northeast website http://www.nfincne.org.