Rhumb Line Monday Night Jam 18th Anniversary Celebration feat. Russ Lawton and Ray Paczkowski of Trey Anastasio Band

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Every once in a while you just have to step back, take a breath and marvel at the fact that you can go out on a Monday night and see some of the world’s best musicians jam in an intimate venue right down the street from where you live.  And it’ FREE!  Check out this note from Dan King about tonight’s very special Rhumb Line Jam:

Tonight is the 18th Anniversary of The Rhumb Line Monday Night Jam Celebration. The Jam has seen many ups and downs, countless players and attendants and many hosts holding down the fort over the years. Russ Lawton and Ray Paczkowski, two obvious jam masters being in the Trey Anastasio Band, are joining in to help us celebrate. It’s a closed Jam with a schedule of former and current musicians who’ve kept it alive, making for an amazing night of mayhem. Early Start at 8:30pm by Bandit Kings to get it rolling since they’re the current caretakers. Thanks for making my little idea such a big piece of Cape Ann Music.

Here’s an example of the kind of jam that gets going when all these folks get together.

Another reason to be glad you live in Gloucester!

MUSIC AT EDEN ’S EDGE NAMES CELLIST JACQUES LEE WOOD 2013 EMERGING ARTIST AT THE EDGE Gifted Cellist Will Perform in August Program

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

This just in from Ann Seamonds:

Music at Eden ’s Edge (MEE), the North Shore ’s resident chamber music ensemble, has named cellist Jacques Lee Wood its 2013 Emerging Artist at the Edge. Mr. Wood will perform as part of the MEE ensemble in its August concert, Heartily August – Music of Schubert, Martinu and Hilary Tann for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano.

The concerts take place on Friday, August 23, 8:00 pm at the First Universalist Church of Essex and Saturday, August 24, 8:00 pm at the Home of John Archer in Danvers . MEE will also present the program on Tuesday, August 20, 2:00 pm at the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers as part of its free Senior/Family Series.

Mr. Wood is a gifted cellist who is gaining attention as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician of the highest caliber. A versatile artist, Wood’s interest in teaching and research supplements an active performance career that covers a broad range of repertoire and interests from historically informed performance of the Baroque, Classic and Romantic periods to newly composed works.

A top prizewinner at the ARTS Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Mr. Wood most recently performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Seoul National Orchestra, the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Ureuk Symphony at Merkin Hall in New York , and the Haydn C major Cello Concerto with the American Baroque Orchestra. Other recent, noteworthy performances include a Carnegie Hall recital with the Yale Baroque Ensemble, the Asian premiere of American composer Russell Peck’s Voice of the Wood with the Pohang Symphony Orchestra, a Tokyo debut recital at Sonorium Hall, and lecture-recitals at Yale University, Auburn University, and the University of Connecticut that explored issues of historical performance practice in Beethoven’s Cello Sonatas.

Mr. Wood teaches chamber music at the Yale Department of Music and the Yale School of Music and currently serves on the faculty at the Korea Philharmonic Summer Research Institute, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra Summer Academy, Bari International Music Festival, International Musical Arts Institute, and the Manchester-by-the-Sea Summer Chamber Music Festival. He is a principal player with Bachsolisten Seoul, Trinity Baroque Orchestra ( New York ), Grand Harmonie, and the American Baroque Orchestra. He is a frequent guest artist with A Far Cry, Bach Collegium Japan , Firebird Ensemble, and the Sebastian Chamber Players.

Currently a Doctoral Candidate at Yale University , Mr. Wood received his Bachelor of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music and his Master of Music at Yale University under Laurence Lesser and Aldo Parisot, respectively.

MEE established the Emerging Artist at the Edge initiative in 2008, presenting gifted young professionals as they join seasoned MEE performers for a fresh musical viewpoint.

Heartily August Concert Details

Discoveries abound as MEE presents Heartily August – Music of Schubert, Martinu and Hilary Tann for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano. The program showcases cellist Jacques Lee Wood, 2013 Emerging Artist at the Edge. Music of Martinu and Tann compete for your attention with intriguing and unexpected twists and turns, while the great B Flat Trio of Schubert makes a poignant statement.

Bohuslav Martinu                      Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano

Hilary Tann                               Llef for Flute and Cello

Franz Schubert                         Piano Trio in B Flat, Op. 99

Artists are Orlando Cela, Flute; Naoko Sugiyama, Piano; Jacques Lee Wood, Cello – MEE Emerging Artist at the Edge; and Maria Benotti, Violin.

Tuesday, August 20, 2:00 pm
Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church , 323 Locust Street , Danvers
Free Admission (part of Senior/Family Series). Fully accessible to mobility-impaired individuals.  Families with young children are encouraged to attend the Tuesday afternoon Senior/Family Series. For information, or for individual assistance for individuals with disabilities, please call: (978) 270-4463.

Friday, August 23, 8:00 pm
First Universalist Church of Essex, 57 Main Street , Essex
General Admission $20, Seniors $18, Students $15, Family $55
Call (978) 270-4463 or order tickets online at www.edensedge.org

Saturday, August 24, 8:00 pm
Home of John Archer, 10 North Street , Danvers
General Admission $20, Seniors $18, Students $15, Family $55
Call (978) 270-4463 or order tickets online at www.edensedge.org

About Music at Eden ’s Edge

Founded in 1982, MEE (www.edensedge.org) has come to represent the highest standards of musical performance artistry as well as a strong dedication to community outreach. Its annual Concert Series, which runs from June through September, features extraordinary musical artists performing in some of the area’s most beautiful and distinctive settings.  MEE is known for creative programming that ranges from the Baroque period to innovative 21st century compositions, and for concerts that combine rarely performed works with more familiar and traditional pieces in the chamber music repertoire. For more information, contact MEE at (978) 270-4463 or visit www.edensedge.org.

OK- Initial Impressions On the Bike Lanes

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

What are your initial impressions on the Bike Lanes that popped up this week?

Like em or hate em?

Leave a comment in the comment to this post.

Any slamming of politician comments will not be approved.

Civil discussion about what you like or don’t like only please and thank you.

Artist Spotlight- Tara White Studio

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hello,

My name is Tara White and I am a local artist who specializes in polymer clay ornaments and jewelry. I recently started following your blog through WordPress, where I have my own blog. I wanted to find out if you ever write posts that feature local artists. If so, I would be very interested in being featured. I have been investing more and more of my time in promoting myself and I know that you have a very faithful following. I know that it would be beneficial to have even the smallest mention. I hope this is not too forward, but I figured it can’t hurt to ask! I really look forward to your reply.

Best regards,

Tara White

Chickity Check It!-

http://tarawhitestudio.com/

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In case you forgot (or didn’t know) about Tacos Lupita…

Posted on by Matthew Green

Here’s a reminder.
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Truly authentic Mexican tacos, $2 each.  (They also have lots other meat options and Latin American dishes, of course.) I got two tacos the other day, one with chicken and one with cow tongue.

Yes, cow tongue! Try it – it’s really good! I know that the thought of one’s own tongue and teeth chewing up the tongue of a dead cow grosses a lot of people out. But the meat is tender and very flavorful!

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Tacos Lupita is at 63 Washington St. in Gloucester.  Open Monday through Saturday 11AM-9PM.

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– Matthew Green

Updates on Engine 2 Being Built at The Pierce Factory From Fire Chief Eric Smith

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Photo Album for Gloucester, MA Job 26779 August 16, 2013
This week the cab, pump house, body and water tank have all been merged with the chassis. Your apparatus now begins moving through the main assembly line. Next week your apparatus should be at the end of the main assembly line.

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Community Photos 8/19/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Hi Joey,

Here are a couple of photos from the most recent Cape Ann Community Contra Dance.  There’s a shot of the band leaders with a host of enthusiastic sit-in musicians and another of the dancers ready to take off.

Our next dance is Saturday, August 24, 8:00 PM at the First Baptist Church, 38 Gloucester Ave., Gloucester.

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Joey:  I noted the photos on Good Morning Gloucester of Adventure sailing again last week.  Here are a couple I took in 1988 – the first of Adventure returning to Gloucester, and the second of her appearing in the Labor Day schooner race.  Best, Pat Morss

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Another great day (and night) off to relax in Gloucester.

Lisa Freed

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Super Yacht Endless Summer, photos from Anthony Marks

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Lighted Boat Parade Sign Up Forms

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Here’s the link-

http://www.capeannmarina.com/Forms/BoatParadeSignUp.pdf

Can you please pass along to your committee and anyone else that can assist with encouraging boats to enter the Boat Parade?  Above is a link to the registration form, however boats can also show up before sunset at Jones Creek- pick up a number and do the parade.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Thanks for your help,

Tobin

Tobin Dominick

Cape Ann’s Marina Resort

Cape Ann Marine Sales & Service

German fisherman catches world-record 515-pound Atlantic halibut

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

German fisherman catches world-record 515-pound Atlantic halibut

Marco Liebenow thought he hooked a submarine while fishing Norwegian waters; fish was so big it wouldn’t fit into the 19-foot boat

August 16, 2013 by David Strege

For the entire story and more pictures click here

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This story was forwarded to me by no less than 4 people and while by today’s standards it sure is a huge Halibut I remember my dad telling me stories about our Grandfather routinely landing Halibut aboard the Benjamin C that were as big as the forktuck.

So I don’t know if the world record is for something like a rod and reel record but from what my dad used to say those fish “back in the day” were caught all the time.

Maybe some of the old timers like Ron Gilson or our regular fishermen readers like Joe Testaverde can chime in on this.

Public Art and the block party

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Cat Ryan submits-

Olivia and Kamila leaping © Cruz Ferreras

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James Owen Calderwood abstract fish net street mural on Parsons

Right foreground, T.A.G artists from Art Haven painting plein air at the second 2013 Block Party 

Says it all! Great day/night

The Rare Karner Blue Butterfly is Making a Comeback!

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The rare Karner Blue Butterfly has been in the news lately, with a featured article in The Wall Street Journal, no less (thanks to Joey for alerting me, via twitter!). Although this diminutive beauty has become extirpated from Massachusetts, it has been successfully reintroduced to New Hampshire!

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The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says “good weather, coupled with help extending the butterfly’s unique habitat in Concord, have made a difference. A company called Praxair Surface Technology/TAFA created a 10-to-15 acre habitat to attract the brilliant blue butterflies, planting over 600 blue lupine and nectar plants in a matter of hours, the insect’s main source of food. The butterfly has been on the federal Endangered Species list since 1992. That year it also was named New Hampshire’s state butterfly, which has been working to restore their unique, savannah-like habitat, as legislators realized the numbers were dwindling.” (WSJ)

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The following is an excerpt from an article that I wrote nearly ten years ago, about New England native lupines, and briefly describing the plight of the Karner Blue. At the end of the excerpt you can read the entire article after Read More

Blued with Butterflies and Lupines ~ The Rare Karner Blue  and Sundial Lupines

By Kim Smith

Excerpt:

Lupinus perennis is the only larval food of the nearly extinct Karner Blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). The upper surface of the wings of the male of the diminutive Karner Blue, with a wingspan of just an inch, is a brilliant lapis lazuli blue with a thin margin of black, bordered by an outline of white. The female is a nearly similar celestial blue, but with a slightly more brownish, or grayish hue, with dark dots rimmed by orange crescent-shaped spots along the margins of the hindwings. The Karner Blue was identified little more than a hundred years ago in Karner, New York. It is just one of many butterflies that Vladimir Nabokov studied and it is also referred to as Nabokov Blue. Throughout much of its former range, including Massachusetts, the Karner Blue is now extirpated. The near-extinction of the Karner Blue has been widely studied and there are currently several programs underway to encourage its survival in its existing colonies (New York) and reestablish new colonies in its former range (Ohio, for example). To my knowledge, no such program, as of yet, exists in Massachusetts. The reasons for the near extinction of the Karner Blue are many-fold, chiefly: fragmentation and loss of habitat of Lupinus perennis through fire suppression and over-development (the very sites that are ideal growing conditions for L. perennis are also choice locations desirable for housing and industrial developments); the use of pesticides (namely BTK), which kills all instars of the Karner Blue; and the ability of L. perennis to freely cross-pollinate with the west coast Lupinus polyphyllus and its Russell cultivar, which makes the next generation unsuitable host plants for the Karner Blue.  Lupinus polyphyllus and its offspring, now seen growing freely along the coast of Maine, is an unfortunate example of how an ill-conceived introduction of another species, and its cultivars, whether it is from another region of our own country or beyond our borders, has widespread and negative repercussions.

Perhaps in our community we can once again be blued with lupines and Karner Blues. The symbiotic relationship of both blue beauties inspired me to order seeds in bulk to share with friends. I am hoping, with the ability of the Karner blue to travel as far as1600 miles, maybe we can connect to the remnant populations in New York or New Hampshire. Possibly you, too, have a sunny location in your garden, or even more grandly, an entire meadow that could be devoted to Lupinus perennis and compatible native New England wildflowers. If, in time, I cannot report back to you that there have been any sightings of the Karner Blues visiting our garden, Lupinus perennis is also a nectar source for a wide variety of beneficial insects and is a larval host plant for the dwindling Frosted Elfin (Callophyrs irus). The eggs of the Frosted Elfin are laid singly on the lupine buds. Larva bore into developing seedpods and the chrysalids hibernate in the leaf litter beneath the plant. For these reasons, thoughtful maintenance is required when cultivating Lupinus perennis.

All images courtesy Google image search.

Read the full article: Continue reading “The Rare Karner Blue Butterfly is Making a Comeback!” →

Just Six Hours Left To Order Your Sista Felicia Cookbook Through Kickstarter! Also Marth Stewart’s Executive Food Director Lucinda Scala Quinn Back’s Sista Felicia’s Project!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

If you haven’t ordered your Sista Felicia Cookbook through Kickstarter or got your tickets to the Gala Book Launch Party At Cruiseport There’s Just Hours Left To Do So!

Here’s the Link- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95596299/sista-felicias-sicilian-cookbook?ref=category

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Also Check out Martha Stewart’s Executive Food Director Lucinda Scala Quinn who gave Sista Felicia her seal of approval –

August 8, 2013

Kickstarter Projects We’re Loving Right Now

 

Posted by Lucinda Scala Quinn

 

 

Hi Everyone,

I love hearing people’s stories of why food and cooking is important to them- whether it’s how they’re putting it on their own table, getting out there with a message to make the food system better, or teaching someone else your best recipes and tips.

When I began my publishing career, there wasn’t any crowd-sourcing help or a way to get the message out to tons of people to fund books. Truth be told, I self-published my first book before it was picked up and published years later! Luckily,  there are a ton of different ways to get the message out today, and I’ve found these two Kickstarter campaigns that I wanted to spread to all of you Mad Hungry-ers.

Sista Felicia’s Sicilian Cookbook

As a fellow Italian and for those of you that have watched my show, some of my best food memories are of cooking from my family’s Italian heritage. Those recipes are filled with warmth, comfort, history and flavor. Felicia is on an ambitious mission to share her family’s recipes and traditions through a series of 4 cookbooks that will embody her “commitment to ensure the past is not lost but is forever saved for future generations”.  Felicia has just a little more to go on her goal and has 10 days left.

Take a minute to watch their videos, read their blogs and Facebook pages, and if you feel empowered by Felicia, please donate!

Best,
LSQ

Live Blogging From The Gloucester Waterfront Festival!!!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

For more info about the Waterfront festival –

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Look for the GMG tent Under the Huge Red Balloon they have flying-

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Amandacakes submits some of her favorite tents-

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