Sunday, October 23, 2011

Gloria Loves Music (Oct 23, 2011)

GLORIA ON FACEBOOK: I’ve recently been trying to figure out the ins & outs of facebook. You can find me here:

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The 1st main purpose of this msg is to remind you about the Mean Mary South Tampa House Concert next Wednesday, Oct 26. There’s space for a few more folks for this one.

The 2nd main purpose of this msg is to remind you of the Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert, Sunday November 6. ( I have an intriguing idea about this one. A Traveling Mini-Fest? See below. )
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CHIT CHAT: Thanks so much to those of you who came out for the Joe Craven & Jon Shain Concert at the UU Dome this past Friday night. What an amazing concert. One for the record books. Joe mentioned that he is planning to bring his trio to Tampa in the Spring. Don’t know exactly when/where that concert will take place – but - if it does happen, I highly recommend it. ALSO – Jon Shain ,who simply wowed everybody at the Dome Friday night, will be returning to Tampa in December. We have a South Tampa House Concert planned for Thur Dec 29.

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1. Mean Mary South Tampa House Concert (Wed Oct 26)

2. Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert (Sun Nov 6)

3. CONCERT CALENDAR (South Tampa House Concerts & Concerts in the UU Dome )

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1. Mean Mary South Tampa House Concert (Wed Oct 26)

http://meanmary.com/

7:30 Doors. 8:00 Concert. $15-$20 suggested donation for Mary. Send me your RSVP & I’ll provide the address, etc.

Mary green grass

MEAN MARY IS COMING TO TOWN! (Truth is she’s not all that mean)

Extraordinarily talented Nashville recording artist, vocalist, guitarist, fiddler, and what she does with a banjo borders on impossible. She is an endorsing artist for Deering Banjos!

When she is not laboring on her Nashville TV show, producing music for herself and other artists, producing shows and videos, or co-writing a novel trilogy about the music world, she is constantly touring . She has recorded 12 CDs, her latest being WALK A LITTLE WAYS WITH ME.

Check her out on YOUTUBE.

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2. Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert (Sun Nov 6) www.phillee1.com

A personal plug from yours truly – me. I’m a HUGE Phil Lee fan. He’s at the top of my favorite musicians list. If you come out to see him, I think you’ll understand why.

While I was in Nashville recently, I picked up the Oct 13-19, 2011, edition of the Nashville Scene where I found a writeup by Jim Ridley in the Critics Pick section about a concert with the Twenty-Eights (a Chuck Berry tribute band) & the opener PHIL LEE: “..... The Twenty-Eights live show is one of the most fun you’ll see all year – something we could say just as easily of their opening act, Phil Lee, whose You Should Have Known Me Then remains our favorite singer-songwriter album of the Aughts. To have them together – it’s as if Christmas arrived two months early. “

Phil in fine form at The Mad Hatter’s Iced Tea Party

“ The Don Rickles of disenfranchised nashtwang...”

http://www.youtube.com/mightykingoflove

Phil Lee – one man, one guitar and a bag of great songs about love and death, misplaced faith, discarded spaceships, hard times - and the funny side of all that. Guaranteed to please!

Sun Nov 6. 5:00 Doors. 5:30 Concert. $15-$20 suggested donation for Phil. Send me your RSVP & I’ll provide the address, etc.

“... stylistically versed, lyrically learned and immensely quick-witted...” Per Walter Tunis/The Musical Box Blog
"Combines social conscience of Woody Guthrie with the twisted fury of Jerry Lee Lewis" Per Associated Press Music Critic
"The Don Rickles of disenfranchised nashtwang strikes again...Lee presents himself as a lovable, if formerly dangerous, rapscallion. Skirting genre boundaries between rock, soul and country with his music and writing lyrics that knock right through walls of taste, decency and political correctness without ever landing him in a punk-rockish, spittin' for show camp." Per Peter Cooper, Nashville Tenessean, reviewing Phil’s Mighty King of Love .

Hows about a traveling mini-fest? Doors for the Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert is set for 5:00 with concert at 5:30. The reason for the strange timing is that Rod MacDonald will be in an early afternoon concert at the Jan Platt Library – which is about 8 minutes from the house . Rod’s concert begins at 2 & should be over by 4:30ish.

http://host7.evanced.info/hillsborough/evanced/eventcalendar.asp

If one were to so choose, one could attend Rod’s concert at the library & then drive down to the house and attend Phil’s concert. A great double whammy. Sounds like a swell idea to me! Perhaps Rod will stop by the house too (altho I’m not sure about that).

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3. CONCERT CALENDAR

UU DOME: CONCERTS IN THE UU DOME, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF TAMPA (UU DOME), 11400 MORRIS BRIDGE RD, TAMPA, FL 33637, INFO: 813-988-8188. www.uutampa.org click on concerts. Tickets can be purchased on line in advance at the church website.

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STHC: SOUTH TAMPA HOUSE CONCERTS (WESTSHORE/GANDY AREA) . RSVP'S NECESSARY.

TO RSVP, EMAIL ME or call (813-837-6572)

2011

STHC: Wed Oct 26, 2011. 8pm. Mean Mary; http://meanmary.com

STHC: Sun Nov 6, 2011. 6pm. Phil Lee; http://www.phillee1.com/

STHC: Tue Nov 8, 2011. 8pm. Ken Perlman & Alan Jabbour; www.kenperlman.com/ensembles.htm

STHC: Wed Nov 9, 2011. 8pm. Small Potatoes; www.smallpotatoesmusic.com

STHC: Tues Nov 15, 2011. 8pm. Butch Hancock; http://www.butchhancock.net

(Butch is part of The Flatlanders – But he will be solo at the house)

UUDOME: Thurs Nov 17, 2011. 8pm. Maddie MacNeil; http://www.madelinemacneil.com/home/

STHC: Wed Dec 7, 2011. 8pm. Laurie McClain & Karen Mal;

www.lauriemcclain.com www.karenmal.com

UUDOME: Tentative. Sun Dec 11, 2011. 5pm. Beth McKee Trio

STHC: Thur Dec 29, 2011. 8pm. Jon Shain

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2012 (best laid plans – things could change between now & then so confirm b4 attending)

STHC: Wed Jan 12, 2012. 8pm. Moonshine Holler

STHC: Thur Jan 19, 2012. 8pm. Jeni & Billy

UUDOME: Thurs Feb 2, 2012. 8pm. Richard Smith & Julie Adams

STHC: Tues Feb 14, 2012. 8pm. Audrey Auld (Happy Valentines Day )

UUDOME: Sun Feb 19, 2012. 3pm. Ronny Cox (with Karen Mal & Radoslav Lorkovic)

STHC: Wed Feb 29, 2012. 8pm. Castlebay

STHC: Wed Mar 7, 2012. 8pm. Paul Geremia

UUDOME: Sun Mar 18, 2012. 3pm. Arvel Bird

STHC: Thur Apr 5, 2012. 8pm. Darden Smith

STHC: Oct ? 2012. 8pm. Claude Bourbon (date tba)

STHC: Tues Oct 16, 2012. 8pm. Doug Adamz

THE END.

1 comment:

Peanut Road said...

Mean Mary is the best! And I don't say that just because she's my niece and I've watched her skills and talents grow since she was a baby. :)