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Wizard’s of Acoustic Guitar Friday, March 19 8:00 pm at Wilbert’s The performers for the evening are: First place winner of the 2008 International Fingerstyle Guitar contest, Tim Thompson from Nashville, Blues and Jazz player Dan Bliss from Kansas City, and the beautiful, amazing sounds of Northeast Ohio’s own virtuoso, Brian Henke. A Wizard’s of Acoustic Guitar performance is an event that will resonate with you long after you’ve left the show. Wilbert’s is located at 812 Huron Road E, Cleveland, (216)902-4663 - $15 cover

A Benefit Concert featuring the music of The Blues Project, and trio Rob Bliss, Dan Hathy, and Joel Marhefka will take place at Geneva High School Auditorium March 30, 2010 Doors Open at 6 p.m. The junior class is responsible for raising the funds to pay for Prom each year. Geneva High School staff and students work very hard to provide the student body with the most opportunities for the least amount of money. The musicians who have agreed to provide music at no

charge for this benefit offers the students a great chance for to achieve their goals. Tickets: $5.00 each or 2 for $8.00 A Bake Sale will be available after the concert.

The March art exhibit at the Ashtabula Arts Center is entitled “Home Grown” Drawings by Jo Ann Blair. The exhibit will be on display March 4 – 30. An art opening reception will be held Friday, March 12 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The exhibit will feature a collection of works by self-taught, local artist, Jo Ann Blair. Jo Ann begins with a graphite drawing and uses cross-hatching to shade and give her drawings texture. Colored pencil is layered over the graphite to finish the work. Most of the drawings are composed to completely cover the page. There are several groups of drawings designed around related subject matter that are meant to be displayed as a series. These include the “Jazz” series and a group titled “Art Gallery.” Gallery hours are Mon. through Thurs. 9 - 8 and Fri. and Sat. 9 – 4. The gallery is also open before all theater performances and during intermission.

Admission to the gallery is free. The Ashtabula Art center is located at 2928 West 13 th St., Ashtabula (440) 964-3396

You are invited to attendÊGreening the Community : Green economy, organic environments, and healthy people. April 9- 10 at CWRU This event is Beyond Pesticides’ 28th National Forum co- convened by Beyond Pesticides Ohio and CWRU Medical School’s Swetland Center for Environmental Health. This fabulous Forum includes a free tour of the Cleveland Botanical Garden, two evening receptions, breakfast and lunch catered by the Mustard Seed and a tour de force of national speakers with local speakers, too. Topics include cutting edge health science, lawn pesticide bans, protecting pollinators, thinking beyond your plate, organic gardening and farming. All of this for the new $25.00 “recession rate.” For a full list of speakers, panels, schedule and registration visit www.beyondpesticides.org/ forum .


For over a thousand years the Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday. In 1903 St. Patrick’s Day became a public holiday in Ireland and is celebrated on March 17, the Saint’s religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. It has long been recounted that during his mission in Ireland St. Patrick once stood on a hilltop (which is now called Croagh Patrick) and, with only a wooden staff by his side, banished all the snakes

from Ireland. In fact, the island nation was never bothered with an abundance of snakes. The “banishing of the snakes” was really a metaphor for the eradication of pagan ideology from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity. Within two hundred years of Patrick’s arrival, Ireland was completely Christianized.

On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during

the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feast on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. Though cabbage has long been an Irish food, corned

beef only began to be associated with St. Patrick’s Day at the turn of the century. Irish immigrants living on New York City’s Lower East Side substituted corned beef for their traditional dish of Irish bacon to save money. They learned about the cheaper alternative from their Jewish neighbors.

The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in the United States, not in Ireland.

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Day. In 1959, Walt Disney released a film called Darby O’Gill & the Little People, which introduced America to a very different sort of leprechaun than the cantankerous little man of Irish folklore. This cheerful, friendly leprechaun is a purely American invention, but has quickly evolved into an easily recognizable symbol of both St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland in general.

Belief in leprechauns probably stems from the Celtic belief in fairies, tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies. Although only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery which they often used to protect their much-fabled treasure.

The Music The Celts had an oral culture, where

religion, legend, and history were passed from one generation to the next by way of stories and songs. Irish Music is often associated with St. Patrick’s Day—and Irish culture in general. From ancient days of the Celts, music has always been an important part of Irish life. After being conquered by the English, and forbidden to speak their own language, the Irish, like other oppressed peoples, turned to music to help them

Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers to reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as fellow Irishmen serving in the English army.

Over the next thirty-five years, Irish patriotism among American immigrants flourished, prompting the rise of so-called “Irish Aid” societies, like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. Each group would hold annual parades featuring bagpipes (which actually first became popular in the Scottish and British armies) and drums. In 1848, several New York Irish aid societies decided to unite their parades to form one New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Today, that parade is the world’s oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States, with over 150,000 participants.

Luck of the Irish? The phrase “luck of the Irish” has been

used for decades to indicate good luck. But if one knows any of the turmoil and strife throughout Irish history then how in the world could be thought of as good luck? The eighteenth century was marked by complete political, cultural and religious oppression. By 1845 a disease, or blight, destroyed the potato crop that was the staple of the native Irish diet resulting in famine. While the Irish people starved, a conservative death toll of around one million, cargo loads of grain and livestock were shipped to England for profit. About one and a half million people who could somehow emigrate, to escape starvation, did so. Many arrived in American ports and, although unwelcomed, went on to make lives here. Ireland has been tormented from within by the civil war between territories causing distress for much of the 1900’s with much unrest continuing today. So when we toast, “may the Luck of the Irish be with you,” I’m not so sure we’re wishing our friends well.

Why Shamrocks? The shamrock, which was also called

the “seamroy” by the Celts, was a sacred plant in ancient Ireland because it symbolized the rebirth of spring. It is said that St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three- leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish. By the seventeenth century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism. As the English began to seize Irish land and make laws against the use of the Irish language and the practice of Catholicism, many Irish began to wear the shamrock as a symbol of their pride in their heritage and their displeasure with English rule.

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remember important events and hold on to their heritage and history. As it often stirred emotion and helped to galvanize people, music was outlawed by the English. During her reign, Queen Elizabeth I even decreed that artists and pipers were to be arrested and hanged on the spot.

Today, traditional Irish bands like The Chieftains, the Clancy Brothers, and Tommy Makem are gaining worldwide popularity. Their music is produced with instruments that have been used for centuries, including the fiddle, the uilleann pipes (a sort of elaborate bagpipe), the tin whistle (a sort of flute that is actually made of nickel-silver, brass, or aluminum), and the bodhran (an ancient type of framedrum that was traditionally used in warfare rather than music).

Nontraditional Celtic bands have created a hard rock variation using some of the traditional instruments and sound for the foundation while changing the tempo and emphasizing hard core vocals. The Celtic rock bands such as Flogging Molly, Gaelic Storm, and Cleveland’s own Boys from the County Hell have gained popularity in recent years and enjoy success year round.

Regardless of how, or if, you and yours celebrate St. Patrick’s day, one thing is for sure, it gives America another reason to party!

*Historic notes compiled from historychannel.com and Barnes & Noble edition of Ireland – Past and Present.

Irish Toasts May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

I wish you health, I wish you well, and happiness galore. I wish you luck for you and friends; what could I wish you more? May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as its foam. And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam. May the most you wish for Be the least you get.

May the winds of fortune sail you, May you sail a gentle sea. May it always be the other guy who says, “this drink’s on me.”

Here’s to the women that I’ve loved and all the ones I’ve kissed. As for regrets, I just have one; that’s all the ones I’ve missed. Oh, womens’ faults are many, us men have only two: Every single thing we say, and everything we do.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

Walls for the wind, and a roof for the rain, and drinks beside the fire. Laughter to cheer you and those you love near you, and all that your heart may desire!


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Most grapes grown here in the ‘Napa Valley of the East’ are categorized as ‘cool climate varietals. Wines produced in northern California are classified as ‘moderate climate varietals.’ Grapes just do not yield high quality fruit in ‘tropical climates.’ What do the different phrases suggest to a wine lover? While the words seem obviously self descriptive, as with much in the lexicon of wine, their full definitions are a bit convoluted.

Soil types, rainfall and other geographic variables do provide subtle nuances in wines grown in the Finger Lakes vs. the Lake Erie region vs. Washington State. However there are very significant ‘family’ similarities between flavor profiles in grapes

from the two major climate zones. And those general characteristics

dominate the flavors we expect in our finished wines.

To get a sense of the difference between the regions, reviewing other fruit crops generally grown in each region is helpful. Apples, pears, cranberries and red cherries thrive in cool regions. In the world of grapes, Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer

and Pinot Noir will do under similar conditions.

In ‘hot’ or ‘tropical’ climates,

farmers produce mangos, bananas, figs and

raisins.Very few wine grapes are grown in central America – it is just too sweltering. And there are no banana trees found on the banks of the Grand River.

In ‘moderate’ climates, growers produce oranges, lemons, peaches, apricots, kiwi, raspberries and blue berries. Under similar settings, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and other classics thrive. In Ohio, given certain microclimates (like in the Grand River Valley or along Conneaut Creek), while we cannot grow apricots, we DO grow peaches and raspberries in most seasons. These explains why local winemakers can produce some great Chardonnays, but expect that one or two years out of ten they may NOT have enough of a season to create either a world class example of that variety or a big, complex Cabernet.

In contrast, unless our farmers face truly unusual weather circumstances, our Rieslings yield great fruit nearly every year. And MOST of the wine grape fruit consistently produced along the shores of Lake Erie come from that cool climate family of grapes.

Across the world, in cool climate regions, (Germany, northern Ohio) there is less direct sunlight and fewer than average sunny days since most are at higher latitudes. In some locations, lots of cloud over and/or fog conditions exist. Grapes there develop natural acidity to produce a crisp and tangy wine. Rather than a heavy, complex ‘body’ consistent with ‘moderate climate’ grapes, cool climate wines are lighter and more refreshing. Their fruit style is described as rather ‘lean but luscious’ with aromas that are ‘fresh and bright.’ These wines are perfect ‘entry wines’ for newbees and sophisticated enough for even the most honed palate.

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C hris D’Itri of D’Itri Productions is proud to announce the debut of the Broadway hit musical Rent , March 26-28 and April 1-4 at the Andrus Banquet Center in Ashtabula, Ohio.

This smash hit musical is based on a group of young artists living in New York’s East Village during the 1990’s. Rent is a story of friendship and love, challenges, and tough social subjects like AIDS, poverty, prejudice, and drug addiction. Rent is about being young, learning to survive, falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Rent has made a lasting mark on Broadway with songs that rock and a story that really resonates through time.With a Rock ‘n Roll feel, Rent is a contemporary take on the opera La boheme , which was written in 1896 by Giacomo Puccini.

Rent was the eighth-longest running show on Broadway. Its success has been recognized multiple times, having received Tony Awards for Best Music, Best Score and Best Book, in addition to a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996. The production features talent from Geneva, Ashtabula, Painesville, and the Cleveland and Akron areas. Rob Covert, formerly of Geneva and now living in Highland Heights, takes on the character of Roger Davis and Mark Cohen is played by Michael S. Riffe of Geneva. Supporting cast

members include Joshua Twining also a Geneva resident as Tom Collins , and Rob Miller of Ashtabula brings to life the character of Angel Dumott Schunard . Rantea Thompson of Akron is playing Joanne Jefferson , Alison Arko, also of Highland Hts. portrays the role of Mimi Marquez , while the role of Benjamin Coffin III is played by Joey Cayabayab of Maple Hts, and Painesville resident Stacy Steele takes on the role as Maureen Johnson . The exceptionally talented ensemble, under the direction of Katherin Kneisley, bring a voice of unity as they deliver the well known songs such as Season’s of Love, La Vie Boheme , and Rent .

Although Rent gained the more popularity through the release of the film, nothing compares to seeing it live on stage! The stage performance allows the audience to feel the heart and soul of this musical as creator Jonathon Larson intended.

The Andrus Banquet Center is located at 2259 West Avenue in Ashtabula. Reservations begin March 1 st by calling D’Itri Productions at 440-536-4852 (Visa/ MasterCard only). Tickets are $25 and $35 for preferred seating. Show tickets include dinner before the show (your choice of Swiss steak or vegetable lasagna). Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for cash bar cocktails, dinner begins at 7:00 p.m. followed by an 8:00 p.m. show time.

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Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been presented every spring for over three decades. Originating from 60 countries and our own region, Ohio’s premier film event features over 240 films. Visiting filmmakers, panel discussions, and student screenings are all CIFF highlights

The Mission Statement The Cleveland International Film

festival promotes artistically and culturally significant film arts through education and exhibition to enrich the life of the community.

In pursuing its mission, the CIFF has set forth some guiding principles in which it follows and shares. Some of these principles are: Set high standards for quality film education and exhibition, placing artistic and cultural merit above commercial appeal; foster understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures and values; work collaboratively to broaden access to quality film arts; cultivate an innovative and forward-thinking organization while ensuring the organization’s financial stability and increase its financial self-sufficiency.

They also strive to promote, among board, staff, and volunteers, a work environment based on integrity, professionalism, teamwork, trust, and respect.

TheVision The Cleveland International Film Festival is a leader in helping the world discover the power of the film arts to educate, entertain, and celebrate the human experience.

Over 150 features and 150 short subjects from more than 80 countries will be shown. Films will run from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm and Midnight movies on both Friday and Saturday evenings. There are over 300 films to view over the course of the ten day event.

The North Coast Voice is proud to be a

media sponsor for the 34 th Cleveland International Film Festival and to sponsor and review the film For the Love of Movies , a 2008 USA film giving an insider’s view of a movie critic’s career.

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through a movie critic timeline. The changes are many and perhaps

from a not often thought about perspective. There is no diploma or credentials needed to take the position or title of Film Critic, just writing skills and a voice that readers

either admire, respect, or despise. Film and movie critics from Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and USA Today are among those interviewed throughout For the Love of Movie . With the popularity of the online community, blogging and the demise of daily papers a rather “digital rebellion” against those that use to set the precedence is what current movie critics are up against today.

For the Love of Movies is insightful and interesting and we would recommend putting it on your viewing list while visiting the festival.

We at the North Coast Voice have also had the opportunity to preview and comment on other films that are showing during the festival this year.

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Switzerland USA 2009 86 minutes This fascinating documentary chronicles

the musical career and adventures of jazz bassist and innovator Charlie Haden for over 50 years. Influencing generations of jazz musicians whose music today continues to break ground, Haden is one of the genres living legends.

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Window of Opportunity H ey, I heard that we will be turning the clocks ahead pretty soon. Well, if that doesn’t convince you that spring is almost here, nothing will. It won’t be long now, before we trade in the snow shovels for the lawn mowers. Yet there is still a little time before the yard work consumes your evenings, as well as your energy. Before your spare time is filled with fun summer activities, like weed pulling and raking the gravel from the lawn back into the drive, (again), there is a window of opportunity here, of which we must take advantage. Picture this, you come home from work, the driveway doesn’t need shoveled, there’s no need to cut firewood, the grass isn’t growing yet, ... might as well go out! Right?... Absolutely! You’ve been cooped up for months trying to juggle utility bills and property taxes and credit card statements. It’s time to shake off those wintertime blahs and treat yourselves to a night of fine dining and entertainment. I’m always impressed by the amount of choices we have here along the North Coast, when it comes to live entertainment and high quality dining. We are also fortunate to have

entrepreneurs who still believe that the two, go hand in hand. And it does not have to be a weekend to enjoy this opportunity, many establishments offer live music several nights of the week as well. So, while you are making up your springtime to-do list, don’t forget to leave a little space in the “just for the fun of it” column, to get out and enjoy some of the wonderful wine, food and music that is readily available around town. There are many talented artists who would happily invite you to enjoy their creations, both on stage and in the kitchen. If your weekends are too hectic, try a Thursday evening at the Light Bistro, where you can enjoy live jazz, every Thursday evening. Located at 2801 Bridge Ave. in Cleveland, the Light Bistro offers progressive American cuisine and wines from all around the world. Some of the most familiar names from the Cleveland jazz scene appear on the monthly schedule, as well as an occasional group, with whom I am unfamiliar, such as the Blue Gate Band who will be featured on March 25th at 7 pm. Though the word “blue” is in their name, their list of influences is made up of several jazz greats, and I hope to catch their act soon. Visit www.lightbistro.com to learn more about wine tastings and other upcoming events. Another of Cleveland’s favorite jazz venues, both for the artists and the guests, is Jazz 28, situated on the corner of W.28th and Clinton, just 2 blocks south of Detroit. Jazz 28 offers a classy intimate setting in which to enjoy a first class meal along with some of Cleveland’s best jazz performers. On Saturday, March 13th, enjoy the soft and sassy style of Debbie Gifford and John Trczinski. The doors open by 6 and the music begins at 8 pm. Be sure to visit www.jazz28.com to secure your reservation. Seating is limited, but the pleasure most

certainly is not. As always, Nighttown, Cleveland’s most celebrated jazz showplace, offers an unforgettable live music and dining experience 7 nights a week. While Nighttown does mainly feature jazz musicians from across the country as well as our area, they often provide you with the opportunity to experience enlightening music, from all around the world. For a unique dining and concert experience in their newly renovated music room contact Nighttown at www.nighttowncleveland.com . The highly skilled staff will show you why this club has been a Cleveland favorite since 1965. On Friday, March 19th, Hot Club of Detroit will take the stage to introduce Clevelanders to their “broadminded approach” to jazz. I know, I know, you’ve got all these things to be done around the house, but it seems to me there is a famous quote by a very wise person that goes something like this. “Why not put off until tomorrow, those things that could be done today, if there’s jazz playin’ tonight”. Well, it may not go EXACTLY like that ... but it should!

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these Irish jokes. Two Irishmen, Patrick Murphy and Shawn O’Brian grew up together and were lifelong friends. But alas, Patrick developed cancer, and was dying. While on his deathbed, Patrick called to his buddy, Shawn, “O’Brian, come ‘ere. I ‘ave a request for ye.” Shawn walked to his friend’s bedside and kneels. “Shawny ole boy, we’ve been friends all our lives, and now I’m leaving ‘ere. I ‘ave one last request fir ye to do.” O’Brian burst into tears, “Anything Patrick, anything ye wish. It’s done.” “Well, under me bed is a box containing a bottle of the finest whiskey in all of Ireland. Bottled the year I was born it was. After I die, and they plant me in the ground, I want you to pour that fine whiskey over me grave so it might soak into me bones and I’ll be able to enjoy it for all eternity.” O’Brian was overcome by the beauty and in the true Irish spirit of his friend’s request, he asked, “Aye, tis a fine thing you ask of me, and I will pour the whiskey. But, might I strain it through me kidneys first?”

Two Irishmen, Patrick & Michael, were adrift in a lifeboat following a dramatic escape from a burning freighter. While rummaging through the boat’s provisions, Patrick stumbled across an old lamp. Secretly hoping that a genie would appear, he rubbed the lamp vigorously to the amazement of Patrick, a genie came forth. This particular genie, however, stated that he could only deliver one wish, not the standard three. Without giving much thought to the matter, Patrick blurted out, “Make the entire ocean into Guinness Beer!” The genie clapped his hands with a deafening crash, and immediately the entire sea turned into the finest brew ever sampled by mortals. Simultaneously, the genie vanished. Only the gentle lapping of Guinness on the hull broke the stillness as the two men considered their circumstances. Michael looked disgustedly at Patrick whose wish had been granted. After a long, tension-filled moment, he spoke: “Nice going Patrick! Now we’re going to have to pee in the boat!

His wife had been killed in an accident and the police were questioning Finnegan.”Did she say anything before she died?” asked the sergeant.”She spoke without interruption for about forty years,” said the Irishman.

A young gentleman sitting at a bar with his pet pig asks for a couple of drinks. The confused bartender said no animals were allowed at the bar. The man proceeded to say

“Ah, but this is a very special pig. Just last week there was a fire in the house and that pig came charging out

of his pen into the house and woke us all up .Then a few days later my son fell into the pool and that pig was grazing out on the lawn, and he came running and jumped into the pool and saved my son. “”Well” said the bartender “I guess this pig is very special so I’ll get him a drink. By the way I noticed that he is missing one leg, what happened? “ “Well “said the young man,

“when you got a pig this good you don’t eat him all at once !!!”

The Doctor was puzzled “I’m very sorry but I can’t diagnose your trouble, Mahoney. I think it must be drink. “ “Don’t worry about it Dr. Kelley, I’ll come back when you’re sober.”

Murphy told Quinn that his wife was driving him to drink. Quinn thinks he’s very lucky because his own wife makes him walk!!

Mike lay dying on his bed when his wife Brigid came in to him and asked if there was anything he wanted. Mike said “Brigid, what is that delicious smell coming from the kitchen?” And Brigid replied “Oh Mike that is a ham I am baking.” Mike thought, and said “Brigid, as my dying wish I would love to have some of that ham you’re cooking.”Then Brigid said “Oh Mike, I’m saving that for the wake!!”

“Did you hear that Flanagan invented an invisible deodorant?” “No, what good is it?””Well if you use it, you vanish and no one knows where the smell is coming from!”


By Cat Lilly

Blue Lunch ”Sideswiped” Sideswiped is the latest and most

eclectic release yet from Blue Lunch, the long-standing Cleveland-based band. The fifteen tracks include seven original compositions and all the varied styles of blues Blue Lunch is known for. The disc opens with

the title tune, an instrumental in the Freddie King-meets-Quentin Tarantino mold. Next is “Which Way to Go,” written by Bob Frank - a series of six short stories about indecision. Third up is “Always Pickin’ on Me,” a New Orleans R&B gem. Next, the ballad “All Things Come,” the most requested original Blue Lunch song ever. “36-22-36” is the Bobby Bland classic, and it’s not about someone’s locker combination! This gem is followed by “The Best I Can,” another Frank original in a hard-core blues style. “Monkey Hips and Rice” is a doo-wop classic, with a saxophone solo from special guest, Gordon Beadle, perhaps the best blues saxophonist today. Ever feel ripped off and abused? Then the next track, “Chinese Knock-off,” yet another original, will be something you can identify with. The instrumental “Doggin’ with Doggett” follows, and it’s a neat bit of pre-bop swing. “Don’t Point that Thing at Me” is an original piece in the Sonny Boy Williamson style, and even features guitarist Bob Frank playing harmonica! “Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday” finds the boys interpreting this R&B classic in four part harmony and with a great sax solo from Keith McKelley. The next track is “Isabella,” the Roy Gaines rocker complete with the little spoken word sketch at the beginning. Then there’s the New Orleans R&B classic, “Mother-n Law,” with some Pete London surprise shtick at the end. The penultimate tune is “My Baby Knows Lovin’,” an original in the Muddy Waters vein, complete

with great slide guitar from Bob Frank. Finally, a classic in the jump blues style the band is known for, “Too Much Boogie” featuring an amazing sax solo from guest player “Sax Gordon Beadle.” Jump blues, Chicago blues, New Orleans R&B, classic soul, doo-wop, jazz and rock and roll – this disc has everything, all performed in the

inimitable style of Blue Lunch. S ideswiped is the band’s

fifth cd from Wilbert’s Records, and was recorded at the Lava Room studio, located in the same buiding as the Agora, at 55 th and Euclid. It was mastered at Acoustik Music in Oberlin. Buy the cd or download individual tracks from iTunes, Amazon mp3, Rhapsody, Napster, iLike, Best Buy digital, emusic, and other download services.

Blue Lunch just returned from Memphis, where they

participated in the Blues Challenge. There were

111 bands competing, from all over the world. The bands

were given two chances to play a 25-monute set, once on Thursday and again on Friday. There were about fifteen venues hosting the event and one band from each event moved on to the finals, which were held on Saturday. Blue Lunch competed at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street, the largest of the venues, so the competition was pretty stiff. Unfortunately, they didn’t win, but they made some new friends and fans, saw some great bands, and ate a lot of great barbecue.

Blue Lunch will appear at Fat Fish Blue on Saturday, March 13 th , and at Harpersfield Winery (6387 State Route 307, Geneva, phone 440-466-4739) on Saturday, March 20 th . Check out the new disc at www.bluelunch.com

Blues Foundation Hall of

Fame Inductees The Blues Foundation has

announced the artists that it will be inducting into its Hall of Fame this year, and they’ve really done a great job with their choices..Chaired by publisher Jim O’Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine, the Hall of Fame committee is comprised of blues scholars, historians, record producers, and radio programmers.

The Blues Hall of Fame committee has chosen six worthy blues artists, two non- performing supporters of the genre, and a handful of recordings for induction into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010. The induction ceremony will be held at the organization’s annual dinner the night before the 2010 Blues Music Awards ceremony on Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis.

The Blues Foundation’s 2010 Blues Hall of Fame inductees include Chicago blues guitar great Lonnie Brooks, harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite, and popular blues-rock singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt among its contemporary artists. Lonnie Brooks has forged a distinctive style that is often described as “voodoo blues,” mixing elements of R&B, Chicago blues, Memphis soul, and Cajun music into an intoxicating brew. A master showman and charismatic performer, Brooks has often branched out beyond records to take advantage of other mediums. The guitarist appeared in the movie

Blues Brothers 2000 as well as various television shows, and co- wrote the book Blues for Dummies with his son Wayne Baker Brooks, and roots-rocker Cub Koda.

Harp blaster Charles Musselwhite rose out of the Chicago blues scene of the 1960s and, along with Paul Butterfield, helped bring blues music to a young white audience. His move to Northern California late in the decade brought his blues to the children of flower-power and, in the decades since, the artist has been an effective ambassador for blues music. More than anything, however, Musselwhite has helped expand the stylistic barriers of the blues, bringing elements of jazz, Tex-Mex, and even world music into his traditional mix of Delta and Chicago blues styles.

Bonnie Raitt is, perhaps, the best-known of this year’s Blues Hall of Fame inductees, a popular blues- rock performer with a string of hits to her credit.

Although best-selling, chart- topping albums like Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw and multiple Grammy™ Award wins often overshadow Raitt’s blues roots, as a guitarist she is respected enough to perform alongside legends like John Lee Hooker and

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Early Era Blues Inductees

It’s surprising, perhaps, that it’s taken this long, but W.C. Handy, “The Father of the Blues,” will be inducted this year, along with jug band pioneer Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, and boogie-woogie blues piano great Amos Wilburn. W.C. Handy, for whom The Blues Foundation originally named its Blues Music Awards (pre-2001), was better- known as a music publisher than as a musician and performer. Adapting the blues tunes that he heard on his travels through the South, Handy would go on to compose such blues music standards as “St. Louis Blues” and “Memphis Blues.” Handy would go on to pen a best-selling autobiography, titled Father of the Blues, and a statue of the influential songwriter stands quietly in his honor on Beale Street in Memphis.

Memphis blues legend Gus Cannon originally recorded as “Banjo Joe” during the late-1920s, but it was his recordings for the Victor label circa 1928-30 with his band Cannon’s Jug Stompers, that would create his legacy. So popular and influential were the Cannon Jug Stompers’ recordings that rockers like the Grateful Dead and the Lovin’ Spoonful would later cover the band’s songs. Cannon would record a final album for the Stax label during the 1960s, passing away in Memphis in 1979.

Pianist Amos Milburn was one of the lucky artists that would make the transition from straight blues to R&B, Milburn’s

combination of rollicking piano blues and soulful ballads

would score the singer a string of hits during the

1940s and ‘50s, including songs like “Chicken Shack Boogie,” “Bewildered,”

and “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer.” Sadly, the hard-living bluesman would be sidelined by a stroke in 1970

and had virtually disappeared from the

music scene before his death in 1980. Non-Performing Inductees The Blues Foundation also recognizes

excellence in other creative areas that surround the blues, and in the “Non- Performers” category this year they’ll be honoring noted music writer Peter Guralnick. The author of definitive biographies on artists like Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, as well as books like Sweet Soul Music , Lost Highway and SearchingfFor Robert Johnson , Guralnick is one of music’s hardest-working historians, his work offering insight into, and documenting blues, early rock, and roots music.

Radio personality Sonny Payne, the long-time host of the King Biscuit Time program on WFFA radio in Helena, Arkansas, will also be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Payne started working at the station as an errand boy upon its inception in 1941, witnessing early live, on- air performances by Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Jr. Lockwood. After serving in the military and playing in various bands, Payne would come back to the station in 1951, eventually taking over the hosting of King Biscuit Time.

Each year, the Blues Hall of Fame also acknowledges the excellence and achievement of individual blues singles and

album tracks, as well as full-length blues albums, and even works of literature. This year’s choices in these areas include:

· Otis Rush - “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” (1958 single) · Little Willie John - “Fever” (1956 single) · Big Bill Broonzy - “Key To The Highway” (1941 single) · Blind Lemon Jefferson - “Match Box Blues” (1927 single) · Howlin’ Wolf - “Spoonful” (1960 single) · Robert Cray - Strong Persuader (1986 LP) · Lowell Fulson - Hung Down Head (1970 LP)

· Fenton Robinson - I Hear Some Blues Downstairs (1977 LP)

In the “Literature” category, blues historian Sam Charters’ 1967 book The Bluesmen will also be honored by the Blues Hall of Fame. Documenting the lives some of the earliest artists in the blues, Charters’ ground-breaking tome included chapters on bluesmen like Charley Patton, Skip James, Robert Johnson, and Son House, among others.


I n March of this year, The Hollies will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ceremonies will be held in New York City. The Hollies were part of the British Invasion tidal wave that swept America during the 60s with their contemporaries, The Beatles leading the charge. The Hollies have many hits in their catalog that include Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window, Carrie Anne, On A Carousel, Stop Stop Stop, He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother, The Air That I Breathe, Pay You Back With Interest and Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) among many more. Tony Hicks, original member of The Hollies and still active with the group to this day shares his thoughts about being inducted this year, “Being inducted never really concerned me. It was one of those things that finally got there. I am pleased that it’s there but I haven’t spent a lot of time worrying about it. It is a top honor.” The Hollies have kept active as a group for over 40 years and even though the lineup has changed over time, they are able to still deliver what the fans want to hear. “Bobby

Elliott (drummer) and myself are still with the band. We are still the original members,” explains Tony. “Graham Nash had left after he spent time in America. We had been on tour with The Hollies and Graham liked what he saw; he liked the life style in America. He wanted a clean break and that’s when he left The Hollies and joined up with David Crosby and Stephen Stills. He had great success with them but has always been a staunch supporter of The Hollies. I think Graham was very much behind this award being given to us. Alan Clarke was with us until about ten years ago. Very sadly through wear and tear, I suppose, his voice just deteriorated so much that he couldn’t go on. The members that we do have now are long standing with us.” Tony continues, “We had not set out in life to be professional musicians. We started out very slowly, auditioning at Abbey Road Studios. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We didn’t burn ourselves out like a lot of bands did. It wasn’t in our nature to do all of that. We always wanted to give the fans a strong, live performance and I would like to think it’s one of the main reasons that we are

still around today. We are more than happy to keep playing the hits we are noted for and fans like to hear.” In regards to song writing, inspiration and putting the melodies together, Tony said, “I’m not a deep thinker to put lyrics down. What we would see around at the time could influence a song. That is what it was like with Alan Clarke and Graham Nash. When we toured America on a Greyhound bus, we would be strumming away and many of our songs came out of that period. Our song, Stop Stop Stop was a song that was influenced by our first tour to New York City. We went to a Turkish style nightclub so I played Turkish style on the banjo, which I still do to this day. We like to write our own songs but if a song is written by someone else and it fits us, then we will record them too. This was the case for He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother, Bus Stop and The Air That I Breathe which to a large extent that is why we are still here today.” He continues, “We do work on new material and use some of that in our performance as well as the original hits that people want to hear. Some of the songs are played exactly like the original recording and some of them are changed just a little to keep things exciting for ourselves. The audiences seem to like it. We get an unbelievably wide range of people at our shows. We do see young kids. They may or may not come back and that’s fine. They might feel the younger bands are more to their liking.”

When asked about programs today such as American Idol, Tony said, “I am glad not to be starting out in music now. I don’t like programs that manufacture music. We started out in small clubs and built our way up. That is the way it should go but you don’t see any of that with these types of programs. The person may have only one hit and they’re trying to fill stadiums. You can’t do that. It’s all merchandised and packaged a certain way.” Tony does like some bands of today, “I do like Snow Patrol and Coldplay. They have songs that are strong that I like.” Spending some time to look back, Tony said, “I remember going through Greenwich Village in New York City and stopping at a club that probably didn’t have any more than 100 people in it and seeing the Lovin’ Spoonful on stage before they became famous. They were singing Do You Believe In Magic and What a Day for a Day Dream before they were hits. We also saw The Byrds when David Crosby was still with them. In Los Angeles, I remember going to the Whiskey A Go Go and The Troubadour. It was great fun in those days. I also remember a young Bruce Springsteen who wasn’t yet famous and coming to our show. He took us around to other places. Those sorts of things don’t happen these days. It was very exciting. You have to understand that we became famous by doing what was really our hobby.”

For more information about The Hollies: www.hollies.co.uk

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My Life on a String – Tom Todd – 172 pages

By James Alexander

I t’s not very often when a staff writer for a publication compiles the essays he has written over the years and has a book published out of them. That’s exactly what our own Tom Todd has done with his works from The North Coast Voice Magazine. After years of typing out the column – On the Road Again – his witty and whimsical bits of fun and wisdom from a musician’s satirical perspective; they are now available in a collection from his first book, My Life on a String. Someone once said if you can make people laugh and keep their attention without swearing, then you are proving you have genuine talent. This book is humorous and uplifting. So cheer up! If you’re in one of those moods that might not be favorable to anyone’s company, you now have some lighthearted elevating passages (without the swear words of course) to give your spirits that that ever elusive quiet laughter it desperately seeks. When asked what inspired him to write Todd explains: “I like writing. I had lots of crazy experiences running around in my head, so I try to put them down in a humorous article. Almost all the ideas come from the actual gigs. And some chapters (when I talk about my kids, taxes, etc) are just from life in general.” My Life on a String opens with a series of puns with expressions musicians might use if they were taking a wrong ‘term;’ Bass notes : when the low notes shake the walls; or Treble : what you have plenty of when you find out the girl you have been flirting with all evening has a BIIIIGG, and rather

annoyed boyfriend. Many of Tom’s editorials will shed light on how he relates to the sometimes eventual ugly challenges every musician faces at one time or another such as in GIGS FROM HELL (from My Worst Gigs Ever ), and the always, never to cease, WEIRD PEOPLE. What musician has never had at least one time when some imbibed fool who can plainly see you’re busy trying to play a song, is standing there hollering something at you over and over (possibly “ Heeeeyy … Play (spit) Proud (spit) Marrrryyyy ”) and all you can do is smile and nod your head? Does this person actually know you’re in a trapped position unable to defend yourself because if you do, you might look like a mean person in front of the audience? In the So You Wanna be a Rock ‘n Roll Star segments, our mentor lends details of all the essential equipment needed to get started once you have decided you found your calling. The most important, a guitar, presuming that is the instrument of choice. Oh don’t forget, you’ll need

money too…you know….to buy amps, mics, and array of other pertinent items. So you better get working ...uh…on Mom and Dad. Throughout the book, Todd shares his comical adventures in his career. With

seventy-six pieces of writing it’s difficult to discuss them all, but one of my personal favorites is Wine Tour (chapter 65). As the tour progresses to more wineries, it appears obvious the wine(s) are digesting and it becomes more difficult to speak and walk; “Shomeone better fix thish shtupid ground!” Everyone who knows Tom Todd knows he is an outstanding multi talented musician. When you see him out performing he’ll have with him: guitars (acoustic and electric), saxophones (tenor, alto, soprano), flute, banjo (4 and 5 string styles), harmonica, keyboard, trumpet, trombone and recorder (song flute). “I played music since I was about 10 years old. I was in school band, and majored in music in college. But playing out at gigs was always my first

love,” he tells us. His first instruments were the baritone horn in school band and the guitar at

home. If you like Tom’s column in The North Coast Voice, then you’ll love My Life on a String . You can relive those misadventures or silly insightful thoughtsÊand if you missed any features, here’s a chance to catch up. You feel great! My Life on a String is available at www.tomtoddmusic.com

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SCIENTISTS, LANA LANE, and his own solo albums over the

years. This versatile

keyboardist recorded with an astounding array of

classic analog synthesizers,

Hammond organ, and a Steinway grand piano at Cleveland’s Magnetic North Studio with engineer, Chris Keffer (SYZYGY), and executive

producer Dena Henry, on board. Joining them was bassist, MARK MATTHEWS and drummer, NICK LEPAR - along with a cadre of stellar, guest guitarists including JOHN PAYNE (ASIA), MITCH PERRY (ASIA FEATURING JOHN PAYNE, MSG), and leading Ohio artists FREDDY DEMARCO and RON REDFIELD.

In honor of this special release, Norlander, Matthews, Lepar, and DeMarco will play a double bill with the well-known, regional Pink Floyd Tribute band “PINK DROYD” as special guests. The overall theme this night will be SPACE... both inner and outer. The two bands will explore this space with the help of The Solar Fire Lightshow’s extremely psychedelic video projections used in combination with effect projectors, strobes, oil wheels, and black lights... with a great laser lighting display provided by Patrick Tane of Laser Show Parties!

The GALACTIC COLLECTIVE will kick off the night with a 90-minute set featuring material from the new CD/DVD release. After a short break to reset the stage, PINK DROYD will finish the evening’s festivities with a two-hour showcase of some classic Floyd tunes - featuring some of their earlier material; i.e. “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”... “Echoes”... and “One of These Days”.

Chian Productions is actively attempting to offer a true alternative to today’s boring “march-in-lockstep” bar scene... providing another choice other than expensive, high-end corporate music events.

You know the shows... the ones where you have to buy nose-bleed seating at the back of the hall for $100 in addition to paying their outrageous service fees for each ticket. And as if this isn’t enough to get your blood

By Sy Borg A s faceless corporate entities, we’ll call

them Master Ticket and Vibe Nation, blatantly rip people off in cahoots with fake formulaic venues, people are becoming increasingly unhappy with the entertainment choices now presented to them. They are looking elsewhere to get more bang for their hard- earned, entertainment buck and are beginning to realize that there just HAS to be something better than this!

Stepping in to help fill this vacuum is Chian Productions and The Solar Fire Lightshow - both of whom will be presenting a reasonably-priced, “70’s style”, full-blown concert experience inside The Shore Cultural

Community Centre Theater located at 291 E.222nd near Babbitt Rd. in Euclid, Ohio, on Saturday, March 27th. Showtime is 8:00 p.m.

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boiling, they have the audacity to charge you $6 for a small plastic cup of cheap beer (after first frisking you like a common criminal)!

“The consolidation of the music business into just a few big players hasn’t been very good for people who enjoy going out to see live shows”, says Dena Henry of Chian Productions. “The corporations have really been dehumanizing the whole concert- going experience. They have become sterile and unfriendly, treating you more and more like a commodity (or even a liability) instead of a person looking to have some fun. So when I recently saw The Shore Centre Theater once again, it really took me back to when I attended school there. I was blown away by this beautiful, old hall - recalling many memories and seeing endless possibilities. I just knew we had to do some shows here, and try to conjure up that lost feeling”.

With that thought in mind, she teamed up with Jim Lascko of The Solar Fire Lightshow to present a series of shows at The Shore Centre Theater with the sole purpose of recreating the warmer vibes of the more laid back, easy- going concert days of the 70’s. “Working with Laura Kidder (the do-it-all manager of The Shore Centre), has been a real pleasure”, Dena states. “The Centre and its directors were very helpful in facilitating and advertising these shows; in addition to offering their usual wide variety of events and services to the people of Euclid, Ohio. Who better to patronize and support - an organization that gives back to the community”.

“That’s exactly right”, says Lascko. “You have to support those that support you! Even this paper you’re reading is independently owned and operated, and offers a very important, alternate choice to the consumer. Quality and diversity always suffer when you have no choice in matters - whether it’s journalism, venues, or music”.

“Keeping this diversity in mind our upcoming show will feature some of Erik Norlander’s newer progressive music along with the earlier experimental music of Pink Floyd in an attempt to recreate a bit of the ‘Spirit of the ‘70’s’, that so many of us have experienced. We’re looking to put on a great show, but without the incredibly fascist corporate feel and mentality that is so pervasive everywhere you go today!”.

Times did seem much simpler back then - when a lot of really great music such as Pink Floyd’s was being created. It was all so new and fresh - just a wonderful time in the world of music. It would be great to be able to just get into a big WABAC Machine (like the one built by Mr. Peabody for his pet boy Sherman) in order to enjoy a bit of that feeling once again.

“Our Way Back Machine will be the theater itself”, explains Lascko. “The musicians on stage will help fire up the engines; and every single one of them will be powered by the tremendous energy of the THE SPIRIT - we will all pull it together in order to use it as a positive vibrational force for lift off. Only then will the Way Back Machine rise and point its nose towards inner and outer space for a trip back through time, with The Solar Fire Lightshow lighting the

way”. The Solar Fire Lightshow is a local,

lighting outfit based in Cleveland, Ohio, which definitely has the previous experience to make it all work together. In addition to promoting the Strange Daze Festivals in the late 90’s (which helped to re-introduce to America the still-relevant spacerock genre), they have also worked and toured with such heavy-hitting psyche bands as Hawkwind, Gong, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Farflung, Pressurehed, Chrome, Daevid

Allen, Nik

Turner, Harvey Bainbridge, and other trancey/spacey bands.

During the last 15 years, they have done in excess of 300 lightshows across the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, East and West Germany, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. There was never much money to be made, but the experience proved to be invaluable.

For those of you who have camped at

Nelson Ledges Quarry Park the last few summers, you may be familiar with some of the over-the-top lightshows which the SFL have produced during the summer-festival season. While there, they worked alongside Crazy Legs Productions - another outfit that does a great job in bringing you the shows presented at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park. They will be providing the great sound system (and some of the lighting effects) for this Shore Centre gig. They have years of experience setting up multiple stages, and do a fantastic job.

Says Lascko: “NLQP features some of the area’s best swimming and camping in a totally-relaxed atmosphere. It is a true, independent-music venue that does more than just pay lip service to the term ‘alternative’ festival site. It’s a great place to just hang out with your friends to enjoy a warm summer’s day - swimming and having a barbeque - while listening to a wide variety of musical acts at their themed festivals. They DO have the original Flower Power vibe.”

“I think it’s about freedom of choice”, states Lascko. “No one wants to be forced into doing something they really don’t want to do. Many of these venues are only concerned with selling you high-priced drinks, and protecting their turf. Some are actually hostile to other events and shows in an attempt to pressure you to come only to their places. In the long run this is self- defeating and acts more to squelch the independent music scene in the area than anything else”.

“I have worked with many local acts that are doing some great things. Folks like James Onysko and his percussion ensemble, DRUMPLAY, for instance. Not only have they toured Europe (four times), but have also performed and recorded with Benoit


Moerlen (Gong + Mike Oldfield Band) at Festival International de Musique Universitaire in Belfort, France, as well as at other venues throughout Europe. They also actively recruit other local acts for this prestigious event. You can sometimes catch their unique world/jazz music at the Sandy Chanty Seafood Restaurant in Geneva-on- the-Lake, where they often play during the summer months.

“And there are other local bands like prog-music award winners SYZYGY; roots- reggae artist, Carlos Jones; world/funk meisters, Mifune; as well as Byron Nemeth Group, Gravity, DeMarco Brothers, Rick Ray Band, and many others - all making their mark on the local music landscape, and helping to put Northeast Ohio on the map in a positive way.

“We all need to work together in order to bring back what was good. We should constantly be supporting the local, independently-owned music venues that are trying to do something a bit differently. Everyone supporting each other will only make a better scene for all of us,”continues Lascko.

“I’m looking forward to working with PINK DROYD. We wanted to present Floyd’s music in a different light for this event, and will attempt to do more of an experimental presentation. It will have more in common with the earlier Pink Floyd shows that focused on cosmic psychedelia and visual content - rather than just shining a lot of bright, blinding light directly into the audience’s eyes with high tech fixtures”.

Pink Droyd features the talents of Kevin Quandt on kead vocals and guitar... Daniel Fisher playing synthesizers ... Mike Lennon on lead guitar... Bob Mondok on drums... and Kenton Snyder on bass; with Steve Lunn playing saxophone and providing additional

guitar work. All join in on vocals and various instrumentation as needed.

Some of these players are veterans of other very successful Floyd tribute acts, such as Boston’s PINK VOYD and EARTHBOUND MISFITS from Fort Wayne, Indiana. “They have done many memorable shows; we are truly lucky to have them onboard for this event”, concludes Lascko.

So there you have it, folks... get aboard the “The Way Back Machine” on Saturday, March 27th at The Shore Cultural Community Centre Theater in Euclid, Ohio. Passengers will begin boarding at 7:30 pm; and blast off is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. Our journey through Space & Time should last until Midnight or so - give or take a few years!

Those that come dressed in groovy, far out “70’s style” outfits (or buy early online tickets), will be entered into drawings with (10) chances to win prizes, ranging from classic Pink Floyd CDs and Erik Norlander’s new release to $50 gift certificates from Mentor’s Record Den.

So dig out those bell bottoms, paisley shirts, halter tops, Nehru jackets, head bands, hoop earrings, groovy peace signs, tie dyes, hip huggers, hot pants, Beatle boots, Earth shoes, macrame belts, granny glasses - even your brother’s old army jacket! Come see Erik Norlander’s GALACTIC COLLECTIVE and PINK DROYD in a beautiful theater setting with The Solar Fire Lightshow and a great Laser Display.

Don’t be left behind... boarding passes are only $17 online, or $20 day of show; and seating is LIMITED. Quality entertainment, cheap drinks, and plenty of safe onsite parking will make for a terrific evening at a price you can afford! What more can you ask?

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A t WMMS we worked hard, played hard, and we also knew how to throw a party. And when it came to St. Patrick’s

Day, we went all out to be the most visible and most partying radio station in Cleveland . It was 1983. I had just gotten back after a week in Jamaica with Jeff and Flash (“We’re going to Ja-mai-ca!”) and a plane full of listeners-gone-wild. We were planning our 15 th Anniversary with a series of free concerts and events. With digital frequency radios becoming commonplace we were officially re-identifying ourselves by our true frequency- 100.7 frequency.

On St. Patrick’s Day, the Buzzard was 100.7-proof Irish. We opened the top of every hour with an Irish-oriented song. Among them, “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” by Wings; “Come on Eileen“ and “Celtic Soul Brothers” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, “Luck of the Irish” by John Lennon, Van Morrison’s “Tura Lura Lura” from the Last Waltz , “Wasn’t that a Party” by the (Irish) Rovers, and, of course, lots of U2. Their breakthrough album, War , had become one of the top-selling albums in Cleveland – and there was a lot of anticipation for their upcoming sold-out concert at Music Hall a few days after St. Patty’s Day.

Even our Len “Boom” Goldberg-voiced top of the hour IDs and sweeps were re- recorded by local Epic Records promoter Joe Carroll, an Irish native, who delivered them with a thick brogue.(Joe would later become famous in Buzzard history for his “F-you personally” call regarding the lip-synching WGCL Slade concert two years later.)

St. Patty’s Day was on a Thursday that year – and considering the way Cleveland partied on March 17 – we considered it an early kick-off to the weekend.

It probably started when I pulled out a bottle of Jameson’s Irish whiskey from the bottom draw of my desk that morning and passed it around to others to get into spirit, so to speak. We had our Buzzard Van in the St. Patty’s Day parade and a number of us would be either be riding or walking along side of it. or some of us, Boom included, it was their first time in the St. Patty’s Day parade.

From there is gets a bit hazy. I recall

that we almost got thrown out of the parade – en route – when Boom, who had a few shots of Jameson’s before the parade began,

started inviting listeners to join us in the van. ÊThough we weren’t supposed to, a couple hundred Buzzard bumper stickers were passed out along the way. Some of them ended up on traffic light poles and the sides of buildings.

When we got back to the station at the Statler Office Tower on Euclid and East 12 th , the

partying continued. By 4 PM, we had two casualties from the Irish holy water: Boom, following an impromptu strip tease, passed out in the sales department and our production director, a hardy Irishman, Tom O’Brien, was sound asleep on the floor of the production studio with a bottle of Jameson cradled in his arm. There was more, much more, actually – but I promised never to tell.

Let me put it this way. Not only did we play “Wasn’t that a Party” - we lived its lyrics that St. Patty’s Day, 1983.

By John Gorman ST. PATRICK’S DAY, BUZZARD-STYLE, 1983

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By Luthier Patrick Podpadec I t’s hard to believe that so many crazy things can happen in just a short couple of weeks. I feel like I’ve been on a roller coaster ride. One day I get on Facebook, the next few days later my computer crashes. I can’t get my email. I can’t get on line to order parts for my guitar. Aahhgg! What the ?<#%&$%$ is going on? I don’t remember things being this difficult when all we had was a telephone and a Sears catalog. Don’t get me wrong, I think technology is a great thing, but it’s only good when it’s working. So anyway, I got my computer fixed and now I can get back to some sort of normalcy (is that a word?) Not that the computer feels the least bit normal to me, but I feel I’m becoming a bit depended on it on occasion. Since I have been building this guitar lately, I’ve found that I have been in contact with quite a few people (via email) about this thing or that and have got a accustomed to the idea of sharing the info I have and also receiving the invaluable information from all of the people I’ve been in contact with. I’ve had the good fortune to have found someone that is kind enough to help me with my “paper work”. The kind of stuff that has to be

done but I never have the time to do it, (or the desire.) It has taken a heavy load from my shoulders. It gives me the time to focus on more important things like finishing this guitar that is going to Florida with me in about 6 wks. Last week I talked about “How long does it take to build a guitar?” Well, I’m really sure I don’t know now! I just hope it doesn’t take longer than 6 wks. Really it has been a very exciting adventure. As each procedure of the building process gets accomplished the more exciting it becomes. I just finished putting the sound box together and am going head strong on building the neck now. I decided that I would laminate the neck by using a

combination of woods. It’s a 5 pc. Lam with a pc of 3/4” mahogany, a 3/32cd strip of rosewood, then a 3/4” pc of birdseye maple, another 3/32cd strip of rosewood and then

another 3/ 4’pc of mahogany. I have to say that it is very appealing! I have routed out the center to receive the two way adjustable truss rod and will be laying out the ebony fingerboard for the

25.625” scale length. This is just a tad bit longer than most acoustic guitar scale lengths, but it gives the fingerstyle guitarist the extra “bottom end” when they experiment with some of the alternative tunings that are out there. It especially sounds good in dropped D tuning. I was always a firm believer in that when

you attempt to build a guitar or anything for that matter, that it very important to have laid out a specific plan to your project so that there is no surprises half way into it. For some reason I forgot to do that this time. I’m just running down the road holding the seat of my pants on this one. So far I’ve been lucky (knock on computer keys). I have not run into any major snags. I’m still trying to figure out what type of inlays I will do or what the bridge will look like or if I’m going to have a pick guard or just a plain, clear piece of Mylar or something to protect the top. I have settled on a oval sound hole (just cause I dig em!) And will outline it with a thin band of ebony. I did this years ago on an octave mandolin that I built and thought it looked great. The headstock will bear the name of “Liam” which is my son’s name and the name of my new line of guitars. This will be the second guitar that has that name on it but it will be the 9th instrument I’ve built. My goal is to build at least 4 more this year along with all of my daily repairs. Speaking of repairs, I have been doing quite a few refrets on instruments lately and for all that I’ve done, I’m surprisingly not sick of them yet. Other than all of the prep work that is involved it is actually (to me) quite satisfying. And also to the customer too! It seems there is a never ending supply of repairable instruments out there and I encourage anyone out there that has one, regardless of the shape, to please contact me @ 474-2141. No repair is too small or too large. Things have been steadily picking up in the shop and again I want to thank all of the North Coast Voice readers for their continuing support and for those of you who have spread the kind words about my repairs. I’ve been lucky to have started this new endeavor into the repair business and hope that I can serve my customers with the utmost satisfaction and professionalism. I really like the building of instruments,but I can’t help but feeling that by me repairing many new and widely different problems that I am learning more and better ways to build and or what not to build. It’s kind of exciting for me to take on repairs that no one else will try, or to go the extra mile to fix something that would otherwise be tossed in the trash.What I don’t gain in finances I gain in knowledge. It’s a win, win for me. So, a good friend of mine use to say, “Keep Smiling” and we’ll see you on the “flip” side.

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folk and country, Charlie soon found his calling into jazz. After hearing his first jazz album and then seeing Charlie Parker with Billie Holiday and later meeting, Stan Levey and Don Bagley of The Stan Kenton Orchestra, Haden never looked back. He left Iowa for Los Angeles to study jazz at Westlake College.

An extraordinary acoustic bassist, Haden’s talents as a musician has been in constant demand by his fellow artists. As a result, he has collaborated with a genuinely stunning array of jazz giants including Hank Jones, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Kenny Barron, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny.

Haden, who was invited to establish the jazz studies program at California Institute of the Arts in 1982, has earned countless honors from around the globe, including and the Los Angeles Jazz Society prize for Jazz Educator of the Year.

If you enjoy documentary style films that delve into music history, Charlie Haden: Ramblin Boy is a must see.

First Voice Ohio

USA 2009 71 minutes Kevin Richards, head of Cleveland

Heights’ Fairmount School of Music, launched Roots of American Music (ROAM) in 1999. It’s a program that draws on the

talents of his many musician friends to introduce area school kids to America’s history and culture through its roots music.

Kevin directs this film in which sixteen Ohio roots musicians are interviewed as First Voice Ohio documents who they are, where they came from and what they play. Each artist talks about their roots and gives a short live performance to demonstrate their style. Some familiar Northeast Ohio players are featured such as; jazz pianist George Foley, blues singer-guitarist Austin ‘Walkin Cane’ Charanghat, mandolinist Bill Lestok, and blues singer Kristine Jackson.

First Voice Ohio is educational, entertaining and paints a musical portrait for those exploring diversity and derivation.

What’s On Your Plate

USA 2009 73 minutes Two young girls’s, Sadie and Safiyah,

from New York City set out on a quest with cameras rolling to find out where the food we eat comes from. They realize the importance of paying attention to what we eat and how it gets to us. Consuming food from local sources such as green markets and farmer’s markets are a main focus of this film.

What’s On Your Plate is educational and thought provoking for both children and adults.

For a complete program guide and ticket information visit clevelandfilm.org and we’ll see you at the movies!

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T he screamingly funny 1936 anti- marijuana screed REEFER MADNESS and the 1975 sci-fi favorite A BOY AND HIS DOG are two of seven movies that will screen during the first Cleveland Cult Film Festival, taking place March 19, 20, 26, and 27 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.

Other classics in the festival include the 1934 Betty Boop cartoon BETTY IN BLUNDERLAND (showing before REEFER MADNESS) and 1958’s color campfest WILD WOMEN OF WONGO, which The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film calls “the most obscure (and the funniest) entry in the wonderful subgenre of scantily-clad-prehistoric-women movies.”

But perhaps the highlight of the fest is the Cleveland premiere of a new 35mm color print of the jaw-dropping and unclassifiable 1977 Japanese teen comedy/ ghost story/horror film HOUSE (HAUSU). Unknown in the West until it wowed audiences at film festivals last year, HOUSE finally opened commercially in the U.S. in January. The New York Times made it a “Critics Pick,” calling it “delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to HOUSE.”

There are also two recent movies in the Cinematheque series -- cult films in the making. BRONSON, an intoxicating 2009 portrait of one of Britain’s most notorious and belligerent criminals (who has adopted the name of action movie star Charles Bronson), has been called “a CLOCKWORK ORANGE for the 21st

century.” The 2008 animated feature SITA SINGS THE BLUES is a delightful and unprecedented mix of Betty Boop and Bollywood, in which the ancient Indian legend of the Ramayana (about a wife abandoned by her husband) is wedded to a retro animation style and original recordings of 1920’s jazz/pop standards.

Admission to each program is $8, or $14 for two programs on the same day, $20 for all three of each day’s programs. Cinematheque members pay $6 per program. All tickets will be sold at the door, cash only. All movies will show from 35mm film in the Aitken Auditorium of the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Boulevard in University Circle, telephone (216) 421-7450, www.cia.edu/cinematheque. Free parking for moviegoers is available in the adjacent Cleveland Institute ofArt lot. Complete details are below.

Cleveland Cult Film Festival Schedule

March 19-27 (7 films)

Friday, March 19, at 7:00 pm & Saturday, March 20, at 8:40 pm New 35mm Color Print! WILD WOMEN OF WONGO USA, 1958, James Wolcott The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film calls this color curiosity “the most obscure (and the funniest) entry in the wonderful subgenre of scantily-clad-prehistoric-women movies.” The beautiful cavewomen who share the island of Wongo with hairy, ugly Neanderthal men can’t help but look

longingly at the tribe of handsome, muscular, clean-shaven men who live on the nearby island of Goona. But will they ever get together? “Leopard-skin kitsch…Will prove deeply offensive to women, ugly people, and stuffed alligators everywhere.” – Time Out Film Guide . 71 min.

Friday, March 19, at 8:30 pm & Saturday, March 20, at 10:10 pm New 35mm Color & Scope Print! A BOY AND HIS DOG USA, 1975, L.Q. Jones This darkly funny sci-fi film, set in 2024 and based on a Harlan Ellison story, tells of a man (Don Johnson) who communicates telepathically with his dog. While searching for food, shelter, and sex in a post- apocalyptic wasteland, the two of them stumble upon a strange subterranean civilization that resembles 20th-century American suburbia. With Jason Robards. Digitally remastered 35mm scope print! Adults only! 90 min.

Friday, March 19, at 10:15 pm & Saturday, March 20, at 6:45 pm Back by Popular Demand! BRONSON Britain, 2008, Nicolas Winding Refn No wonder this movie has been hailed by some critics as “a Clockwork Orange for the 21 st century!” Like Kubrick’s rude masterpiece, it recounts the criminal career of a charismatic British reprobate in words, performances, images, and music that really sing and soar. Here the “protagonist” is real- life convict Michael Peterson (a sensational Tom Hardy), who has spent 30 years of his

34-year prison sentence in solitary confinement and loves to fight so much that he has adopted the moniker Charles Bronson (after the Death Wish star). This is stylish and intoxicating filmmaking of the first rank ( The Village Voice called it “sociopathic vaudeville”) from the Danish director of The Pusher Trilogy . Music by Verdi, Wagner, the Pet Shop Boys, et al. The audience loved this film when we first showed it in December, so we’re excited to bring it back and help build its cult following. Adults only! 35mm. 92 min. www.magnetreleasing.com/bronson/

Friday, March 26, at 7:00 pm & Saturday, March 27, at 10:15 pm Back by Popular Demand! SITA SINGS THE BLUES USA, 2008, Nina Paley Betty Boop meets Bollywood in this this witty, delightful, independently-produced animated musical that moviegoers loved when we premiered it locally in May of 2009. Since then it has opened commercially in New York City and elsewhere, earning a 100% “fresh” rating (unanimous favorable reviews) on RottenTomatoes.com! Animator Nina Paley takes the ancient Indian legend of the Ramayana, in which a woman is abandoned by her husband, and weds it to the true story of her own marital break-up and to 1920s jazz/pop standards sung by Annette Hanshaw (1901-1985). A one-of-a-kind future classic! 35mm. 82 min. www.gkids.tv/ sita/

Friday, March 26, at 8:45 pm & Saturday, March 27, at 7:00 pm New 35mm Color Print! HOUSE (HAUSU) Japan, 1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi This crazy, unclassifiable 1977 Japanese horror comedy, which one wag has described as “an episode of Scooby Doo directed by Dario Argento,” finally receives a U.S. theatrical release in 35mm after some stupendously successful festival/museum screenings from video during 2009. A teen schoolgirl travels with six of her buds to her aunt’s creaky country house. There they encounter evil spirits, a bloodthirsty piano, and a demonic housecat, among other unpleasant surprises. Director Obayashi employed all the tricks in his 1970s analog arsenal to create the crude and cheesy special effects that turn this bizarre and hilarious ghost story into a singular psychedelic head trip. “Critics’ Pick… Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone—no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House . “ – The NY Times (1/15/10). Subtitles. 87 min. www.janusfilms.com

Friday, March 26, at 10:30 pm & Saturday, March 27, at 8:45 pm REEFER MADNESS TELL YOUR CHILDREN USA, 1936, Louis J. Gasnier The granddaddy of anti-marijuana films is an unintentionally hilarious camp classic. It’s a cautionary tale in which evil drug dealers lure an upstanding high school student into a sordid life of weed, women, and (shudder!) jazz —to say nothing of dementia, rape, manslaughter, and suicide! Preceded at showtime by Dave Fleischer’s great Betty Boop cartoon Betty in Blunderland (USA, 1934). 35mm. Total 73 min.

Cinematheque presents first Cleveland Cult Film Festival


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Y ou may remember the name Cowboy Junkies from the frequently aired remake of Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Sweet Jane, or U2s One. Their top 20 recording of Common Disaster in 1996 gave them an edgy reputation for reality lyrics in a no nonsense eclectic music style. Something clean and wonderful happens when a band blends complementary music genres together with a twist of their own take. The Junkies original music is a progressively alternative country, mixing a bit of blues, classic early country influences and a hint of beatnik flavor seeping in once and a while. Hardcore country music buffs may have a hard time grasping the Junkies as heir apparent in a subtype of country, but their influences are a faithfully based conglomeration of some of their major influences, historical music legends of blues, country and hippie rock. It’s hard to believe lead singer and front- woman, Margo Timmins, “never wanted to be a musician”. Her melodic harmonious and quite gifted vocal aptitude make the Toronto based Cowboy Junkies a most flavorful alternative country dynamic. In

their third decade of music making, they arrive at the Playhouse Square Ohio Theatre for a very special one- night show on Saturday, March 27 th .

The Making of the Cowboy Junkie : The band was formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family from Toronto in 1985 when Michael Timmins (guitar), Peter Timmins (drums) and bassist Alan Anton, one of Michael’s oldest friends, began jamming in a garage. Michael and Alan had tried their luck with a couple of other bands, Hunger Project and Germinal, and had recently returned to Toronto after several years in New York and London. The next step was to find a singer. “I never wanted to be a musician,” Margo Timmins confides, “but one day Mike asked me to sing. I said yes, but only if I didn’t have to do it in front of the other guys. So I sang with Mike for a couple of days, and then he asked, ‘Um, do you think it’d be okay if we brought the other guys in now?’ I said, ‘Well, okay. I guess so, I mean, if we have to.’” Where did they get that catchy name? Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt’s song “Cowboy Junkies Lament” as the source of the band’s name, but that song was written for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.) The band released its debut, Whites Off Earth Now!! , in 1986 on their own Latent Recordings label. It revealed Michael’s preoccupation with the late great Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins and other birthright blues artists. The band toured the Southern and Southwestern US in support of the record, enveloping music of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers along the way, inspiring their second album, The Trinity Session , self-released in 1988. Recorded with a single microphone in Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity in one 14-hour session – at a cost of $250 – T he Trinity Session featured spare, lilting originals alongside Jennings, Williams and Patsy Cline covers and “Sweet Jane.” With “Sweet Jane” getting considerable airplay on college and commercial radio and reviewers lauding the band’s fresh sound, word soon began to spread. Reed reportedly liked the Junkies’ version of the song better than his own, and began performing their version in concert. The Junkies had signed to RCA Records, which reissued The Trinity Session to a wider audience and platinum sales. Their subsequent albums – The Caution Horses (1990), Black Eyed Man (1992), Pale Sun , Crescent Moon (1993), Lay It Down (1996) (which featured the Top 20 Modern Rock hit “A Common Disaster” and earned

Cowboy Junkies a gold record), Miles From Our Home (1998), Open (2001) and One Soul Now (2004) – chronicle the band’s evolution, a process Michael describes as gradual and organic. “It’s become much easier to communicate musically over the years as we’ve all grown as musicians and of course, we have twenty years of shows behind us now. We’re able to bring greater dynamics and infinite variety to the music as a result.” None of the band’s subsequent albums have been hits outside of their homeland Canada although the band has maintained a dedicated following and have continued to have chart hits in Canada. Following their 1998 album Miles from Our Home, Cowboy Junkies were dropped from their major label contract. They continued to release albums on their own independent label, Latent Records. In 2005, Cowboy Junkies released Early 21 st Century Blues , an album of covers which Rolling Stone proclaimed “closely revisits the career-making Trinity , - hushed electric guitars, brushed drums and Margo Timmins’ unmistakable vocals. It all adds up to a concept album about war that screams with a whisper.” The band’s most recent studio effort, At The End of Paths Taken (2007) was hailed by Paste Magazine as an album of “an alluring, gently haunting quality; inspired by reflections on family and world dynamics and mortality.” Cowboy Junkies returned to Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity for a day in November 2006, joined by Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant and Vic Chesnutt to revisit The Trinity Session in celebration of the original recording’s 20 th anniversary. Captured by filmmakers, Pierre and Francois Lamoureux, the resulting documentary, Trinity Session Revisited , was released as a DVD/CD in January 2008 to an amazing and overwhelming critical response. The band is currently in the studio readying a 2010 release. Visit www.cowboyjunkies.com for more information. Tickets to Cowboy Junkies are on sale now and available at the PlayhouseSquare ticket office, via phone at 216-241-6000 or online at www.playhousesquare.org. Ticket prices range from $10.00 to $35.00.

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Oscar post mortem The Oscars will be over when we go to press but here’s my picks as of today. It seems each year the offerings are weaker and weaker. Maybe I’m just the old curmudgeon griping that things were better “in my day” but with an inexplicably long list of nominees there’s certainly a lot of chaff and not much wheat. Anyway, I think AVATAR will win but THE HURT LOCKER has been gaining on it and may overtake the pack by Sunday. I’m guessing whichever one loses best pic will get best director. James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow. Jeff Bridges should repeat his Golden Globe win and I think the sympathy nod goes to Sandra Bullock for her slightly above average performance in the slightly below average THE BLIND SIDE. Oddly the best performance of all is Christoph Waltz in INGLORIOUS BASTARDS and he will take best supporting actor. No chance to cheat guys. You can laugh at me or throw roses when you are reading your North Coast Voice. And this way you can avoid the temptation to bet your house on my picks. WSS

Alice In Wonderland Walt Disney • PG • 108 min So I apologize in advance for my blaspheming. I think Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are two of the most overrated guys in show business. Now that doesn’t mean I think either sucks but time after time I think that style gets in

the way of substance. You can bet that Depp will turn in a quirky performance wearing a whole lot of makeup and Burton will roll out the state of the art spectacular but creepy set design. Both of those hallmarks appear here in spades. Well, maybe hearts. Unfortunately a good story needs more than that. Aside from many of the familiar characters and sequences the film doesn’t have a whole lot to do with either of the Carroll books, Through The Looking Glass or Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Perhaps there should be the disclaimer “suggested by actual events” or something like that. It is actually a surreal action film in which Alice winds up in a suit of armor and slays the Jabberwock thereby defeating the Queen of Hearts and her evil empire. It’s a little like Superfriends on LSD. Depp’s manic performance is more charismatic than his Willie Wonka but far less than his Captain Jack Sparrow. Someday I’d like to see the guy do something that didn’t rely so heavily on the makeup artist. There’s also a silly plot mechanism that has Alice about to become engaged to a to a pompous young man and some folderol about her father and his legacy before she drops down the rabbit hole. Then (lifted right from THE WIZARD OF OZ) all the fantasy creatures she meets in Wonderland are oddly similar to real people from the real world.

Still you can’t take anything away from Burton’s visuals, which are

as fantastic as usual. But when the wonder wears off I had trouble relating to the characters, and that’s the downside. It’s lavish but mediocre and all in all I expected better from Disney.

C

An Education BBC • PG13 • 95 min Another film with no chance of winning best picture (unfortunately) is one of my surprise favorites of the season. I had to visit the good folks at the Solon Cinema to catch this BBC production. It’s an early sixties coming of age film about Jenny (Carey


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The Hurt Locker Summit Ent. • R • 128 min The last few years have been a new era for war movies. From WW2 heroism where the Americans whip up on the bad guys to the “war is crazy” series of Viet Nam flicks to the depressing desert films of the Iraq era where it always seems the Americans are the bad guys. Directed by James Cameron’s ex wife Kathryn Bigelow, THE HURT LOCKER is an admitted anti war film but also a study of an adrenaline junkie. Sgt Will James (Jeremy Renner), doesn’t seem to be able to relate to normal human feelings, only the thrill of the near death experience that’s part and parcel of his assignment as a warhead and explosives neutralizer.The suspense as he de activates a deadly bomb is pretty strong and well filmed. Unfortunately that hook gets repeated beyond its suspense value. Bigelow admits to have been hooked on violent films as a youngster viewing Sam Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH, and it shows right down to the slow mo explosions and gunfire. But that’s when the overly pensive mood takes over and slows the film down far too much. I understand that war is likely futile, violent and seemingly pointless. I understand that Sgt. James is a damaged human being, either by his own nature or by the pressures

of war. Almost like a lifelong prison inmate this soldier just can’t cope in the mundane real world. I personally found this one to be overly depressing and slow, but apparently I’m in a minority. I think the anti war message is the main reason this one wound up on the best picture list. See for yourselves.

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Fox Studio Spring is in the air and things are

starting to pick up for 107.5 FM The Fox, myself and the Fox Girls!! Actually, it has been one of the busier winters for me since coming on board here on the Fox, which by the way, it will be 5 yrs, April 1st.

WOW, where has the time gone?!! Be sure to catch up with the ‘screamin yellow Fox van’ this month at Scooter’s By The Lake, on Rt. 85 in Andover for our ’Get

Lucky With The Fox Girls’ Party on Friday, March 12th from 9pm-11pm.

Then on St. Patty’s Day Wednesday, March 17 th , it’s the 2010 ‘Shamrockin Music Fes’t at Jewel’s Dance Hall on Rt. 307 in Austinburg. There will be 3 bands, St. Patty’s Day food & drink, a mini cornhole

tournament and more. Cost is just $5 and doors open

at 6pm with music starting at 6:30pm.

Coming up in April it’s the 2010 Bikers’ Ball back at Mt. Carmel Community Center in Ashtabula. For more info on all these events log onto

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Take care, Hunter email: [email protected]

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Star So what the heck is with

social networking? Some people say they never want to keep in touch with anybody, let alone their past, but sites like “Facebook” have taken the world by storm. We here at Star 97.1 have taken full advantage of “Facebook” and would love to be your friend. If you log onto www.star97.com there is a link to our “Facebook” page. And we want you to be our friends. Mark and Jeremy are always on and looking forward to chatting with our listeners and hooking them up with cool prizes right on “Facebook”

It is always cool to see who is listening and see what your thoughts are. And you get to know us just a little better. We have almost 1,000 friends now and are looking tons more. We will not reject you if you want to be our friend. But we do ask one thing. Please only post comments to our page and not those crazy surveys or grits and what not, it just clutters up the page for others. Are you wondering if the sire is controlled by Mark Allen, YES, it really is! See you soon “facebook” friends. Log on right now to see new pics and videos posted daily!

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The country concert season is upon us. We are currently looking at partying with Clay Walker and Lee Brice at the House of Blues in Cleveland on the 18 th . Then Justin Moore and David Nail will be at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania on the 21 st . Plus we have a ton of other shows

this summer such as

Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Randy Houser, and the list goes on. Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to attend all of those shows this year? But who has that kind of money to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of concert tickets in this economy?

That is where 98.3 The BULL comes to the rescue with the Country Concert Blow Out contest. We’ll give one lucky listener a package of tickets that will deliver them into the majority of country concerts this summer! Make sure to listen on April 1 st at 7am when Scony and I will break it down on how you could win all those tickets. Remember to program us into your radio and tell your friends to do the same. If they win they may take you to the concerts as well.

One last thing, we have started a new weekend show for all you true blue country fans who were country when country wasn’t cool. Starting at 8 on Sunday nights you can tune in for More Classic Country Sunday Night featuring all the country classics from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Tell your friends, we’re hookin’ you up with More Country Guaranteed! 98.3 The BULL.

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DeBlarney DeStone!

X Since this issue will fall around St. Patrick’s Day I thought I’d attempt to demystify this whole Blarney Stone thing.

What the hell is it, and why do people go about kissing the damn thing?

I’ve always thought it was some odd looking blue stone found stuck in the sole of your boot while walking through a patch of four leaf clovers, on the third Tuesday of spring, following the first full moon!

In fact that was the story I was told by an Irish fella I met at a pub in California once! He said if he was down on his luck, all he would have to do is pull it out of his pocket, give it a kiss, then walk into any pub and someone would buy him a pint.

Of course I wanted to see it but he wasn’t going to show it to me because… “No one else can touch it or it will lose its power, besides it has to be kept in the dark while recharging for its next use”.

So we sit there talking about his adventure of finding this stone while sipping on our beers, and all the while I’m watching out of the corner of my eye as he keeps sticking his hand in his pocket to “see if it’s ready yet”.

Curiosity is getting the best of me, and then all of a sudden he slams down the rest of his beer, quickly reaches into his pocket, brings his hand up to his mouth and kisses it, then just as quickly puts his hand back into his pocket, then gathers up his things as if to leave.

“Hey wait!” I said, while motioning the bartender to give us each another beer, “Come on, just let me see it!” I pleaded, “I won’t touch it, I promise!” I needed to know more!

“Well me boy” he says with a grin and sits back down, “As I told you it has to be kept in the dark while recharging, but if your quick enough you’ll be able to get a glimpse of it the next time I use it.”

Well I’d like to say I didn’t believe him, and I told him so, but all he had to do was motion with a nod of his head toward his new pint of beer that I just bought him to prove that it worked! 3 times!

That was a long time ago and I was young and stupid, now I’m older and stupid but still want to know where to get one… times are tough!

So I did some research and to my dismay, it turns out this Blarney Stone is a block of bluestone built into the top battlements of Blarney Castle in Ireland, like in the 1400’s.

That’s a pretty old stone and too big to put in your pocket! In order to kiss it you have to be grasped by the ankles and dangled over a ledge, upside down and backwards to reach it!

That’s just wrong!

Yeah as it turns out every year millions of people, including world statesmen, literary giants and legends of the silver screen flock to the Blarney Castle to kiss the stone!

According to legend, kissing the Blarney Stone endows the kisser with great articulate eloquence or skill at flattery, in other words the gift of gab. In plain English… lying!

That would explain a lot about the state of the economy. I’d like to see a list of all the “stone kissers” that turn out to be senators, congressmen, presidents, and ex-girlfriends!

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