The News Review:
- Stage is set for St. Johns jazz fest
- Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Spend the Night With Fans in Chicago
- AUG. 7: Electric rock and roll
Stage is set for St. Johns jazz fest
Portland Tribune – Jul 17, 2007
Beeler is still at the helm as the festival celebrates its 27th year but now he has the help of a 10-member board of directors. The free concert is set for Friday through Sunday with 10 acts including saxophonist Plas Johnson (famous for playing the Pink Panther theme) and John Heard featuring Nancy King. There’s also Charlie Musselwhite whose “Delta Hardware” album picked up four trophies at the Blues Music Awards last year. “I book these people intentionally so I can see them” says Beeler 48 who makes his living as an entertainment consultant. In all the production costs about $50000 to put together; he also has a $4000 Metro community enhancement grant and gladly accepts donations. He guesses that about 1000 people attend each day of the festival. The festival first was held in 1981 in honor of a community activist named Howard Galbraith who led the committee that built Cathedral Park.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Spend the Night With Fans in Chicago
CMT.com – Jul 17, 2007
fans stood in line at the House of Blues to buy tickets the proceeds of which benefited the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls of Chicago and the couple’s Neighbor’s Keeper Foundation. Then after the big arena show the music started up all over again at around 12:45 a. And it wasn’t over until the House of Blues management and fire marshals literally kicked McGraw off the stage at 4:30. Because of the loose nature of the show it was hard to keep track of how many songs McGraw and Hill each sang. With help from Chicagoan Jim Belushi star of the sitcom According to Jim on harmonica and background vocals throughout the night McGraw did unreleased tunes from his latest album Let It Go like “Kristofferson” “Whiskey and You” and Eddie Rabbitt’s 1979 No.
AUG. 7: Electric rock and roll
Canada.com – Jul 17, 2007
“It was the Flower Power summer and I remember the radio wars and Boss trouncing [rival station] CFUN” he says today. “We had flowermobiles going to all the beaches. “What he remembers best from the period was the music especially the Beatles landmark recording Sgt. Pepper’s and the first live satellite TV broadcast of the Beatles’ song All You Need is Love. “The whole music of the era was fabulous” says Latremouille now 61. “I thought the music was extremely powerful and still do. We went through a real dull stretch for a couple of decades after that… An ad for lympia Pizza for example would stretch into a seemingly minutes-long performance that sounded like a transmission from outer space. Tanner says one of the most popular “underground” songs from the time was Alice’s Restaurant by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie son of folk music legend Woody Guthrie. The talking blues number was a satirical anti-Vietnam War protest song based on a true incident that occurred on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The song’s running time: 18 minutes and 20 seconds occupied an entire side of Guthrie’s 1967 debut album also called Alice’s Restaurant. There were few stations then willing to play the entire song. But by the time the movie of the same name was released in 1969 many FM stations were switching to the album-rock format to cater to young people who were getting rid of their hi-fi record players and buying stereos. (In the 1950s radios used vacuum tubes and had to be plugged in.