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Newport City Limits Radio w/ Gary Gramolini
November 02, 2011 08:13 AM PDT
You may know of Gary Gramolini as the lead guitarist for John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band ,of 'Eddie and the Cruisers' Movie soundtrack fame (with the top-ten singles 'On the Dark Side' and 'Tender Years', and over three million units in record sales).Gary was raised in the Boston area and started playing the guitar at age 5, lessons from age 6-17, playing in a working band from age 14-18; lots of fun, good job, good friends, good money, popular band, the die was cast. Attended URI to study Marine Biology, met lots of musicians, started jamming, made a few bands and quit school in 72 to pursue life in a band. Then met up with John Cafferty, Ken Silva, started a band with them and the Beaver Brown Band was born when Pat Lupo and Bob Cotoia joined in. NCL Radio Show with Frank RomanelliSeptember 06, 2011 01:59 PM PDT
Nominated by Motif Magazine 2010 Male Vocalist of the Year
Originally from Providence RI, Frank's career as a solo singer/songwriter has had him playing mostly the northeast and southwest parts of the country. Frank has played several well known Los Angeles venues, including The Joint in West LA and The Rainbow on Sunset in W. Hollywood. When on the west coast, It's not unusual to see me at a Tuesday night open jam at Suzy's in Hermosa Beach, or doing a pub gig at one of the clubs on the Hermosa Beach Pier (his favorite is Fat Face Fenner's Fishack). Frank has also regularly played the Burbank Bar and Grille in Burbank and appeared at Mardi Gras in Toluca Lake. On the east coast, Frank can most often be found around the Newport, RI beaches, playing original and standard favorites at Johnny's Atlantic Beach Club, The 501 Café and Pineapple's on the Bay on Goat Island, or doing an acoustic set at Empire Tea and Coffee. In addition to other east and west coast shows, he has played Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, and Honolulu, and several venues throughout Florida. But no matter where or what Frank has played, this is what he's learned: "My best shows are when I'm having fun with fellow musician friends or just enjoying music with good people. All the rest is over-rated." Check it out. Man on the StreetMay 17, 2011 05:28 AM PDT
Newport Arts Scene Radio has a new format that includes music and other exciting art forms. In addition the show has been cut to 30 minutes and is taped live in and around Newport. NAS Radio hour can be heard at NewportArtsScene.com and NewportCityLimits.com Our guest on this show is "Man on the Street" with Tom Perrotti and Willie Cooley. Enjoy NAS Radio Hour with Kim LamotheMarch 12, 2011 06:16 AM PST
Kim Lamothe with the assistance of Brendan Whipple on upright bass and Eric Hastings on percussion makes The Kim Lamothe Tree-oh. A funky, rhythmic dynamic tree-oh crossing genres of folk, rock and groove. Kim Lamothe is a organic gardener with a integrated ability to match poetic lyrics with progressive guitar. Finger plucked ballads and driving rhythms make her songs dynamic and her shows imploring. Brendan's techniques of bowing and drumming on the bass add to her percussive approach. Add Eric Hastings tight grooves and sensitivity to vocal delivery and the sound becomes exultant.
-Chris Conti, Providence Phoenix NAS Radio Hour with Allysen Callery, Singer SongwriterMarch 05, 2011 08:22 AM PST
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Hopey: "Fragile picking and a haunting delivery reverberate with the ghosts of British folk like the hybrid, conjoined spirit of Sandy Denny and Nick Drake"(Bob Gulla) Hobgoblin's Hat:"Callery's finger-picking acoustic skills are trumped only by her gorgeous voice, and her poetic sophomore release (the follow-up to her '07 debut Hopey) is equal parts entrancing and beautiful. The first three songs ("Tiny Armageddon," "Jack Jumps Back" and the title track) lure the listener in, surefire lullabies to paralyze." (Chris Conti) Both albums have received international critical acclaim by some of the foremost authorities in alternative folk music,
"Allysen Callery might be the Tim Burton of folk music, her dark songs often transporting us to somewhere otherworldly. Highly recommended" - Call It Folk (May 01, 2010) "The only aspect of Allysen Callery's talents more impressive than her nimble, nylon-string finger-picking is her unmistakable voice."
"A fantastic disc that is truly enchanting".
Both Hopey & Hobgoblin's Hat have received steady airplay on various radio shows worldwide including Sideways through Sound 2ser 107.3 FM Sydney, Australia, Boston area based Flyweight on WZBC 90.3 FM,
Allysen has played the legendary Club Passim, both solo & with her band, the Land of Nod, Stone Soup Coffeehouse, The Speakeasy under Local 121, Church, The Middle East, Lizard Lounge,& New York's Knitting Factory. Allysen has been nominated for Best Female Vocals 2009, & 2010 by RI's premier arts magazine, The Providence Phoenix. In early May 2011, Allysen will tour in Germany, Switzerland, & the UK with her first label Woodland Recordings (Berlin) , with whom she is releasing an EP also in 2011. Allysen Callery is an alternative folk artist in the New Folk Movement, also called Freak Folk & New Weird America. Partnered with Myles Baer (Black Hole Infinity)
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February 11, 2011 07:50 AM PST
Ed McGuirl plays blues and roots music performing solo or with long time partner Mike Fischman. He was a member of the well known Greencastle Band for a decade through 1987 playing Celtic music throughout New England. He has since established himself as an award winning songwriter and has songs on several compilation CDs as well as soundtrack contributions. His song “Jesus Doesn’t Kleck No Tax, Wassail” appears on the holiday compilation The Twelve Steps Of Christmas and the lyrics to “Patience” were included in the anthology On The Road compiled by the Association of Songwriters and Lyricists. Both songs can be found on the critically acclaimed Slowly Rollin’ recorded with fellow multi-instrumentalist Mike Fischman as the “Folk Support Group”. Ed’s production of “White Shirts/Hungry Children” is the lead-off cut for the well received compilation The Time Is Now produced and released by the 1 of 52 Artists Hunger Network. All proceeds from this grassroots organization benefit the various soup kitchens and food panties in R.I. Ed’s latest release Ides Of Blue includes a cover of Pete Seeger’s “A Little Of This ‘N’ That” from the 1 of 52 Artists release. Also on the CD is “Will The Whisky Win” that received an award for songs promoting awareness of substance abuse problems and recovery; and in January of 2003, NBC Channel 10 produced the powerful documentary “Hunger Pain” depicting the realities of food shortages in the Rhode Island area and “Elevator Song” from Ides Of Blue was chosen as the soundtrack for the film.He also has done studio session work for numerous RI artists and has appeared as a sideman for award-winning songwriter John Fuzek. He hopes to become a full time philanthropist as soon as someone gives him enormous sums of money. Contact: fsgmusic@cox.net
December 30, 2010 01:36 PM PST
Playwright ~ Poet ~ Screenwriter ~ Professor Franco is a native of New York and currently divides his time between there and his home in Newport, Rhode Island. He has been educated, apprenticed, and worked both in Italy and New York City and is fluent in English and Italian. D'Alessandro has had fourteen international, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, regional and international productions of his work. His 2002 Off-Broadway hit “Roman Nights” explores the artist/muse paradigm, vis-à-vis the tumultuous and dramatic life of stage and screen legend Anna Magnani and her inspirational friendship with the great playwright, Tennessee Williams. This play was a critical and commercial success in New York and in 2004 in London. It opened in Prague in May 2006 where it continues its sold-out tour for its fourth year. The play will go on to be produced in Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Argentina, and Russia in 2010-2011 and there are plans to make “Roman Nights” into a feature film. STRANGER LOVE: 5 Plays by Franco D’Alessandro is available at www.amazon.com and www.finishinglinepress.com Franco's drama “The Shattering” has been work-shopped at The Cherry Lane Theatre with Olympia Dukakis and Christina Zorich and is seeking a 2010 premiere production. This play examines the seemingly irreparable relationship between an immigrant mother and her American born daughter and the unspoken betrayals and sins of omission that have devastated their family. A 2010 Showcase production is planned to premiere Maximum Happiness (featuring two new one act plays "Venice, Again" and "One Hundred Dollars Worth of Change"). "Finding Magdalene" is a haunting and funny new play, which has already won acclaim, and is part of an upcoming trilogy called The Museum Hours which examines the healing and transcendent powers of art, to include "Overlooking David" and "Lifting Antaeus". This had a reading workshop in New York in 2008 with Gregory Abels directing and will have European premieres in 2010. Another new work entitled “White Elephants Dancing The Flamenco” is inspired by the work of Ernest Hemingway and will have a reading in 2009-2010. Franco's future stage and screen projects include "As It Is In Heaven" which chronicles the lives of St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi. Drawing from his proud Jesuit education, D'Alessandro is fashioning this dramatic and inspiring story of sacrifice as both a play and film. Franco has also been hired to adapt the acclaimed 1970 novel Out Of Place by Joseph Papaleo for screen. A dramatic and darkly funny television series entitled “Honor Society” chronicles his experiences as a teacher in the inner-city’s most challenging schools. By 2009 D'Alessandro's plays will have been translated into five languages and performed in six countries. In addition to his work as a writer, D'Alessandro holds a Master's Degree in English Education and teaches drama, theatrical text analysis, and creative writing in New York City schools, several universities, and in Rome during the summers. He is an adjunct professor of theater at Salve Regina University and several other colleges in the U.S. and abroad and at The Actors Center of Roma, and The New York Italian Cultural Centers. His poetry has been published in various literary journals and most recently has been featured three years in a row in Balancing The Tides: Art and Poetry Journal. In September 2009 “Supplications: Immediate Poems of Loss and Love”, a book of poetry, will be published by Finishing Line Press. Franco D’Alessandro is a 2001 & 2002 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, a 1998 & 2000 Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency recipient and 2000-2001 Cherry Lane Theatre Alternative Finalist and 2001 Princess Grace Award Nominee. A 2000-2001 NEA/TCG Playwrights Nominee, a 1999 & 2000 Dorset Theater Colony Residency recipient and 2005 New Frontiers Playwright. Mr. D’Alessandro graduated Summa Cum Laude form Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education (MAT English/Literature specialty) and he is a Member of The Dramatists Guild of America (1996) and The Cherry Lane Playwrights Alternative and Writer's Guild of America. NAS Radio Hour with Tom Perrotti, Executive Director of Common Fence MusicDecember 16, 2010 06:33 PM PST
Common Fence Music grew from seeds strewn about in the heyday of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals. The first grassroots growing under our feet were trampled at the Newport Casino; then at Freebody Park with neighboring workshop sites at St. Michael's School and Touro Park; and then, Festival Field near the Middletown line. So many stories to tell and memories to share. We would love hear yours: see your photos and home movies, and hear your recordings. We can have some fun helping each other bring the recollections back into a sharper focus. I'm sure I've already overlooked some workshop site. Tom Perrotti What is Common Fence Music? Common Fence Music is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization dedicated to presenting concerts and occasional workshops of folk, roots and world music and other underexposed, but culturally relevant styles and performers. Common Fence Music began as an activity of the Common Fence Point Improvement Association in 1993 but became a separate organization soon after. Today we work side by side with our friends in the Association to keep the hall vibrant for all who rent the room for various functions. CFPIA Community Hall is a special place as this neighborhood community gathering spot was built as a country music dance hall and it has great live sound. The atmosphere is congenial with tables fanning out around the stage. And, there is plenty of free parking. And don't forget Common Fence Music's "folk tailgate" tradition at The Picnic Series when the doors open at 7 pm. Bring along your own meal and beverages (no corking fee!). In a relaxed and convivial atmosphere, folks share conversation as they pass around appetizers and entrées before settling in to enjoy the evening's program . . . a memorable night's entertainment that won't break the budget. Common Fence Music Showcases the Best in
December 03, 2010 09:21 AM PST
Red Eye Flight formed in Rhode Island in 2005.
http://www.redeyeflightband.net Interview with Johnny Jones & We Own LandNovember 14, 2010 07:50 AM PST
When the term “Hard Rock” was coined it went without saying that it meant the music was hard, and no one understands that better then local Newport, RI native Johnny Jones. What he learned was the music was hard in sound, and it was hard to be a rocker and a passion that was awe consuming. Jones a 1988 graduate of Rogers High School has always loved music and did everything possible to be on the stage playing his music. “Of course I would have liked to make lots of money playing my music but it didn’t happen,” said Jones. He survived the odds and is looking forward to the next chapter in his life leaving youth, alcohol and the hard life behind and replacing them with “life” and its possibilities, including his newly formed band, We Own Land. When I interviewed him for this show I found him to be a man who had come to terms with himself, his music and his legacy. Joining him is band member Craig Ferris, lead singer and co-writer of many of We Own Land tracks. Listening and watching the two of them was like what I would imagine it would have been like for Brian Epstein interviewing Lennon and McCartney for the first time. They acknowledged each others talents and the importance of each other as musicians, songwriters and friends. I hope you enjoy this radio show because Rocco and I enjoyed having them on. Look forward to a rocking performance with We Own Land at Jimmy’s Saloon on New Years Eve. We are also excited to see what they do as they open the first “Newport City Limits” televisions show set to air in January. Until Next Week Tom NAS Interview With Richard Hatch & Louie StravatoNovember 12, 2010 11:22 AM PST
Richard Hatch still surviving life’s rocky road By Richard Salit Journal Staff Writer Newport’s Richard Hatch, relaxing in a hammock while a contestant on the “Survivor” television show in 2000, continues to battle the Internal Revenue Service and charges that he defrauded the government of taxes owed from winning the TV show. CBS / MONTY BRINTON
After winning the reality show’s $1-million prize and cashing in on his newfound celebrity, the Middletown native was indicted for tax evasion, convicted at a media-sensation of a trial, and sentenced to more than four years in prison. As determined as he was to outlast his fellow contestants on the island of Borneo, Hatch today is just as determined to prove his innocence. He has also revitalized his TV career, capitalizing on his image as one of realitydom’s most infamous and outrageous characters — the openly gay, anti-hero whose cunning, arrogance and naked antics made him a star. Hatch says he will be a contestant on the next season of Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” to air in the spring. While he is mum on details about his “Apprentice” appearance, Hatch invites a reporter to listen to his account of how he has been mistreated by the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. prosecutors and the federal courts. On a weekday morning, he buys a bottle of water and sits at a café on Broadway, just a few miles from the house on Annandale Road that he shares with his sister. Now 49, the once-overweight corporate trainer looks much as he did on “Survivor” and in federal court in 2006 — reasonably fit, and with a thin salt-and-pepper beard. Hatch emphasizes that after all of these years, the IRS has yet to tell him what he owes. He provides copies of a pair of refund checks, each for about $1,000, which he received for subsequent years and says the IRS wouldn’t be returning money to him if he was delinquent. An IRS spokesman, Jim Dupree, said that while that is generally true, he is prohibited by law from discussing Hatch’s case and its unique circumstances. “I think it’s unequivocal proof that I don’t owe anything, nor have I ever owed anything beyond what I paid already when I originally filed in 2000 and 2001,” Hatch says. “There may come a day when the IRS completes its assessment, which it has not yet done in what, eight years now?” In 2006, a Providence jury convicted him of two counts of tax evasion and one count of filing a false tax return. Prosecutors argued that Hatch did not claim income on his “Survivor” winnings, rental income and charitable contributions he allegedly used for personal expenses. Judge Ernest Torres, after concluding that Hatch had lied repeatedly under oath, slapped him with the maximum sentence allowed — 51 months in prison. Hatch served about 3½ years in federal prison in West Virginia and was released to a halfway house and then to home confinement. But he wound up serving the rest of his sentence after giving unauthorized interviews in which he asserted that prosecutors, the judge and jurors were biased against him because he’s gay. Former U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente has denied the accusation. While on home confinement, Hatch was denied permission to move to Argentina, his spouse’s native country (“We’re happily married,” he says). Nor could he even leave the country, preventing him from accepting offers to appear in “Survivor: Samoa” and “Survivor: Heroes and Villains.” His passport is still being withheld. A year into his probation, Hatch is eligible to request early termination of his supervised release. He filed that request on Nov. 4. A motion he made in U.S. District Court seeking exoneration has not been decided in the more than 1½ years since he filed it. Meanwhile, Hatch says he taking legal steps to compel the IRS to complete its assessment of his taxes. He says he appears in a new documentary called “Death or Taxes.” And he’s working on a book about his life. His adopted son, Chris, is a junior at the University of Rhode Island and is participating in a semester-at-sea program. “Nobody will destroy my life,” Hatch says, but “they have stolen part of my life for which I’m interested in holding them accountable.” The U.S. Attorney’s office declined comment for this article. Note: In picture is Tom C. Erb RI Comic Throwdown Host/Promter, Michael Naylor & Louie Stravto, 4th Place Winners of Season 16 of "The Amazing Race" and Richard Hatch winner of Season 1 of "Survivor" NAS Interview James Montgomery 2010November 11, 2010 03:09 PM PST
"As Bring It On Home’s Sonny Boy Williamson–inspired title implies, Montgomery uses the 11 cuts to pay tribute to his mentors, including James Cotton and the late Junior Wells, who taught him the tricks of blowing harp. Cotton duets with Montgomery on the acoustic numbers "Sinkin’ Blues" and "Junior’s Jump," the latter a tune Montgomery wrote using some of his favorite Wells licks. For Montgomery, the disc is a joyous recollection of his earliest days as a musician, when Wells, Cotton, John Lee Hooker, and other artists playing the Hastings Street dives and after-hours clubs of his native Detroit would let him sit in — giving the white teenager an on-the-job education in how to play Delta-derived electric blues. Bring It On Home is also a manifesto of sorts. Montgomery, who lives in Providence, explains, "I found that people in the industry were confused. ‘James Montgomery? Kind of blues, kind of rock, and kind of funk?’ Because in my previous albums I had tried to show the paths that blues had taken. But I’ve always considered them blues records. "So this time I went back to my roots. The producer Marc Copley, who also played guitar, is kind of a cutting-edge guy. So we decided to put together an album that proves I’m a blues musician, but we also wanted it to be textural — to put spooky and dark things in the background. Once we had that concept, we picked songs that referenced artists who meant a lot to me." The blend of gutty blues — buoyed by Montgomery’s direct, gritty singing and his command of a wide spray of electric- and acoustic-harmonica tones — and moody sonics works well. Low, tremolo’d guitar awash with reverb sends chills through "Back on My Knees Again"; subtle shifts in the guitar’s presence and attack (from slide to tremolo to rumbling rhythm) on the Willie Dixon–penned and Williamson-associated title number has the effect of raising the spirits of the music’s past. For the present, Montgomery has a killer version of his band together, featuring drummer Marty Richards, bassist David Hull, and guitarist Matt Woodburn" - The Boston Phoenix |
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