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The 2011 Space Coast Music Festival Hosted by the City of Cape Canaveral, this September 24th event will feature live stage performances from some of the area’s favorite musicians. Held in Manatee Sanctuary Park in conjunction with National Public Lands Day, the family-friendly Festival will also help raise funds to purchase instruments for Cape View Elementary’s music program. Main stage acts include Danny Morris, Mo Geetz, Overload, the Bone Dogs, the Gilroys, the MCs, the Queen Bees,... [Read more...]
Mud Rooster Taking their name from the tail of mud that arcs up behind bikes and fourwheelers, this popular, Ocoee-based blues trio enjoys a strong beachside following. Comprised of Dave DeQuasie (guitar and vocals), Jim Young (bass and vocals), and drummer Jorge Villar, Mud Rooster are known for their stylishly funky takes on blues standards. With influences ranging from Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to Deep Purple and the Allman Brothers, all three members also moonlight as instructors... [Read more...]
Justin Murphy Justin Murphy has been playing Irish traditional music for over twenty years. Having immigrated to the U.S. as a boy in 1978, he discovered the music of his roots while attending Tulane University in 1989. Under the tutelage of Dublin native Richie Stafford, a player of both Irish traditional flute and fiddle, Murphy began a 15-year stint as one of the house musicians at O’Flaherty’s Irish Channel Pub in New Orleans. Initially mastering tin whistle, flute and bodhran (traditional... [Read more...]
Hymn For Her Multi-instrumentalists Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing are Hymn For Her, a rock duo that hails from anywhere they can park their 16-foot, vintage ’61 Bambi Airstream. Describing their music as “stomp-grass punk folk with a hint of Americana,” Hymn For Her recorded their latest release, Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream, in this same trailer with the help of Jim Diamond (producer of the first two White Stripes albums). Lucy plays a three-stringed, broom handle/cigar... [Read more...]
M. A. Rivera
Article Category: Events, Local Amp
Strings of the South: A Celebration of Americana Music By M. A. Rivera You say this economy has you down and out, stuck slumped in front of your TV, wishing you could get out? Never fear! If you have $10 — or even just $5 — here’s a night out you won’t soon forget. On Friday, September 9, in downtown Cocoa Village, Built on Strength Productions will present a block party and an evening of the finest Americana music Central Florida has to offer. Presently, folk and Americana... [Read more...]
Reunion with Damion Suomi and The Cook Trio On Sunday, August 28 at 4:30 p.m., Paddy Cassidy’s Irish Pub will be hosting a Reunion gathering, beer tasting, fundraiser, and live music extravaganza. Terrapin Brewery’s Reunion Cask Ale will serve as the event’s “Beer for Hope,” in their efforts to gather funds to support cancer research. Also on hand will be potluck dinner comprised of patrons’ favorite dishes and the chance to reconnect with friends both old and... [Read more...]
Georg Schroeter & Marc Breitfelder The participation of German blues musicians in the world’s largest blues competition on American ground itself is extremely unusual, but Georg Schroeter (piano, vocals) and Marc Breitfelder (harp) winning the 27th International Blues Challenge 2011 in Memphis, TN, cannot be overestimated. Fact is that the two musicians from Kiel (Northern Germany) are the first European musicians in the IBC’s 27-years history to run away with this prestigious award... [Read more...]
Lone Hymnal Cocoa Beach-based band Lone Hymnal started out in the late 1990s as Gottesfeld, a name many residents remember fondly. Drummer Josh Maynard, bassist Tim Allen, and guitarist/vocalist Chad King performed a streak of fiery local shows under that moniker before going their separate ways… for ten long years. In 2009 they began writing songs again and are now back as Lone Hymnal with a new guitarist, John Shade Vick, who fills out their “sad, country, surf rock” sound. With... [Read more...]
