November 8, 2009
This Year’s LEHIGH VALLEY MUSIC AWARDS December 1st at Allentown Symphony Hall. The Voting is over now you must be at the show to find out the winners, over 4000 of the Lehigh Valley music lovers voted. And if you are a Band Or a local Venue, or Business that would like to reach 1200 of the Lehigh Valley’s Music Community you still have a chance to Advertise or Sponsor the Lehigh Valley Music Awards. Go to www.lehighvalleymusicawards.org. If you need tickets for the show (Dec.1st at the Allentown Symphony Hall, $10 Advance - $15 at the door) See one of the local bands, many of them have tickets and we are offering a reward for whoever sells the most {$100}, or you can see me or any board member. Check out the Morning Call article at the bottom of the page.
(There is
going to be Silent Auction so check the LVMA site for more information)
The local Clubs are doing their best to offer you enjoyable venues to
come out and hear LIVE music. These are
great LIVE performances, not the same reconstituted recordings that you listen
to each day on your player or radio, but LIVE presentations just for you.
Many of you have asked me to put your band on the artist list. I have updated some so if your band is not
listed please let me know or if it is the wrong link let me know that also.
Below is a list of just some of the entertainers and venues that are
offering you the chance to listen to great Live Music. If it’s not LIVE music, it’s dead.
11/08/2009 This week, you have permission to skip the LVBN’s Blues Jam as far as I am concerned. You ask why that is because their Representatives for the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tenn. January 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, are having a benefit to help defray some of the cost of hauling the whole band and their equipment from the Lehigh Valley to Tenn. This year’s Representatives will be The James Supra Blues Band and Bluzin. The event will be held at the Emmaus Fire Company #1 (yes the old home of the LVBN) from 1-9 PM with a great line up of friends and their band helping out Jim and Bev and their band members support the Lehigh Valley Blues community. For more information check out http://www.jamessuprabluesband.com/jamessuprabluesband_IBC.htm or http://www.bluzin.com/fr_index.cfm. For all the information on the IBC go to http://www.blues.org/#.
The Lehigh Valley Blues Network’s Sunday Jam, hosted by Doc Z and Bob Hall, Will be back in the fallowing weeks, it is located at the Salisbury Fire Company Social Hall, 1226 Marlow Street, Allentown, Pa. They invite everyone to come Sundays at 7 PM for Live Music and Friends. Check The Lehigh Valley Blues Network’s site to make sure of the jam schedule. Phil Stahl is at the Candlewyck Lounge with an open Mic. Rob & Marty are at the Blue Mountain Vineyards and Steve Brosky & Jimmy Meyer are at The Tap and Table Gastropub. Blackwater is at Brave Heart. Jake Kaligis is at the Bear Creek Ski Area.
11/09/2009 The Wildflower Café has
an open Mic.
Scott McKenna is at the Funhouse.
11/10/2009 Phil
Stahl’s open Mic is at Center
Valley Tavern, The
Leather Corner Post Bar & Grill Jam with Glenn
Wasserman & Friends. The Wildflower Café has
and open Mic. The Dynamic Duo is at Magnolia Vineyards and Leechboy is at the Lehigh Pub.
11/11/2009 Todd Wolfe & Friends Jam at Pearly Bakers Ale House,
The Ravens Nest their Jam hosted by Don Mayer.
Open Mic at Magnolia
Vineyards with Jeff Roberts.
There is an Open Mic at the Sterling
Hotel and Open Mic at the Bally Inn (More of an Acoustic thing) hosted by
Steve Walker. Jazz (JAZZ Music) is at Starfish Brasserie
(Patrick Poladian). 2 Joe’s are at The Blue Monkey and Craig Thatcher is Solo at the
Spinnerstown Hotel. Steve McDaniel is at the
Broadway Pub and Bluzin is at The
Club at Morgan Hill.
11/12/2009 Matt Roman Host the open
Jam at Grumpy’s. Eddie
Bluestone has a Jam at The
Leather Corner Post Bar & Grill. Spencer Reed or Jesse
Green Host the Jam at The
Deer Head Inn. The
Rising Sun Blues Jam is hosted by Rollin the Dice.
Open Mic with Phil Stahl at The Pub On
Main and there is an open Mic at Porters Pub. Open Mic at the Hard Bean Café. Open
Mic With Thom Palmer at Hawkeye
Country Tavern. Alex Radus is at Pearly Bakers Ale House
and Steve McDaniel is at
PJ Whelihans. The Dynamic Duo are
at the Fogelsville Hotel and Ricky Bell &
Ian Frey are at the Mezza Luna. Four Play is at
Platz’s and Blackwater is at St. James Gate.
11/13/2009 The Aardvarks are at the American Club (Coplay Open to All 7-10) and Sarah Ayers Band is at the Cactus Grill. One Cat Left is at the Mezza Luna and Billy Bauer is at St. James Gate. Leechboy is at the Hawthorn House and Lou Franco Project is at Rascals. The Hillbilly Souls are at Magnolia Vineyards and Mickey Jr & the Stone Cold Blues. are at Riegelsville Inn. Plan B is at the Sam Adams Pub and the Cherry Bombs are at Lupo’s. The Bryant Brothers are at the Weaversville Hotel (6pm for a Blues Buffet) and On Fire is at the Top Diner and The Philadelphia Funk Authority is at the Wagon Wheel. Family Circus Trio is at Pearly Bakers Ale House and Tomorrow is Gone is at Grumpy’s. Signal 7 is at the Leather Corner Post and Bottleshot is at the Funhouse. BC is at Louie’s and Mary Hawkins is at McCoole's Red Lion Inn. Scott McKenna is at the Blue House Grill and Toga Party is at the Score Card. Economy Studs are at the Center Valley Tavern. Connie & Ian are at the Garfield Hotel. At the Sellersville Theater is Blues & Brews, who could ask for more..
11/14/2009 Smokin Joe Kubak & Bnois King will be
presenting a special BLUES Show at 2nd Story Blues. Sarah Ayers Band is at Glacier and Billy Bauer is at Pearly Bakers Ale House. Lou Franco Project
is at the Mezza and The
Hillbilly Souls are at Platz’s. Livewyre
is at The Blue Monkey and James Supra Blues Band is at the
Garfield Hotel. Steve Brosky & Jimmy Meyer are at the Terrace Restaurant and Prugal is at Jack Callaghan's Ale House. On Fire
is at the Top Diner and George Kirby is at The Riegelsville Inn. Brotha From
Anotha is at the Pocono Pub and Ricky
Bell is at the Keystone Pub. Dan DeChellis Trio is at the
Lazy Dog Café and The Donovan
Roberts Duo is at Stefano’s
Sicilian Grill. Leechboy is
at the Seemsville Hotel and She
Said Sunday is at the Pig Pen. Acoustic Project is at the Center Valley Tavern and the Carol
Broughton Trio is at Starfish
Brasserie. The luster Kings
are at Grumpy’s.
If you are looking to see and hear great music, that is not necessarily
with an established band. Just music
that comes from the heart and preformed, by players who want to do their best
to please you, and a place you might find a future Star. One of our local jams might be your answer.
Here are a Few.
Sunday:
LVBN has their Jam, at the
Salisbury Fire Company and the open Mic at Godfrey Daniels. Phil Stahl Open Mic at Candlewyck Lounge,
Mountain Jam at Blue Mountain Summit, Sebastiano's 2-7 (RT57, NJ), John &
Peters .
Monday: The Funhouse Open Jam every other week, The Wildflower Café hosted by "Garfield" William Medei.
Tuesday: The Leather Corner Post, Mezza Luna, Fossils Last Stand (1st & 3rd), Havana’s, Ship Inn (Milford NJ), Washington House the 4th Tuesday of the month.
Wednesday: Ravens
Nest, Todd Wolfe & Friends’ Jam at Pearly Baker’s Alehouse, Open Mike at
Magnolia Vineyards, Open Mike at the Sterling Hotel and Open Mic at the Pa.
Roadhouse, Open Mic with Phil Stahl
at the Buckeye Tavern, Leechboy is at the Leather Corner Post, Puck Live, Open
Mic at the Bally Inn and Pub, Open Jam night at Crocodile Rock Cafe from 8-12
With Tom Kat, Godfrey Daniels the last Wednesday of the month.
Thursday: Grumpy’s, The Deer Head Inn, Porters Pub, Stanhope House, Eddie Bluestone has a Jam at The Leather Corner Post Bar & Grill. Phil Stahl has an open Mic at the Pub on Main. Open Mic at the Hard Bean Café. Open Mike at Hawkeyes Country Tavern, Hosted by Thom Palmer.
Saturday: Jam at the Hard Bean Cafe
As they say at the Rum Boogie Café; “Eat, Drink, Boogie, Repeat”.
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Sunday November 8th,There will be an IBC Fundraiser for the James Supra Blues Band and Bluzin, which are this year’s Lehigh
Valley entrants in the IBC
Memphis event in January. The event
will be Sunday November the 8th at the Emmaus Fire Company #1. Tickets will be $10 in advance and $15 at the
Door. There will be
Live Music From 1 – 9.
Check out the Music Line up at http://www.jamessuprabluesband.com/jamessuprabluesband_IBC.htm
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The
Lehigh Valley Music Awards #11, will be held this year at the Allentown Symphony Hall on December 1st. The LVMA http://www.lehighvalleymusicawards.org/
Tickets for the show will be available through the Board Members, or on the LVMA web site and many of your favorite bands will have them available. Tickets are $10.oo in advance and they will be $15.oo at the door the night of the Show. Just let me know if you need them and how many.
The LVMA is a Non Profit organization and in order to put this show on again this year as in the past 10 years, we look for sponsorship from all the local bands, Clubs & Venues, Business and Industry, and most important you the fans of Lehigh Valley Music.. For more Sponsor information, please contact any of the LVMA board members or check out the information on the LVMA web site http://www.lehighvalleymusicawards.org/.
Feel free to cut and paste this announcement on your web site, or send it to your favorite area band or venue.
The Music is there for you, all you have to do is go and enjoy it.
If you want to see some of the fun from the past area, jams check out: JB’s Jamerama. Always check http://www.hayblue.com & News and Notes for updates. If you are across the New Jersey Border and looking for something send an e-mail here Jim JAMO Flynn jamo@att.net and he has the NJ list.
Looking for some other things to do in the Lehigh Valley area? Check out; Real Rock for Rockabilly in the area http://realrock.5u.com/, The Blues Collaborative http://www.bluescollaborative.com/bc_schedule.html, The off the Couch Gang http://www.offthecouchgang.com, another location to check out is www.somethingeye8.com.
Great American Brew Fest November 21st, 22nd 2009 http://www.splitrockresort.com/gba.php
Wow, I am running out of fest for
the rest of the year do you know of any?
I am also preparing next year’s list?
In addition, I am starting my
list of who is playing for our New Year’s enjoyment. So if you or your band are
playing in the Lehigh Valley Area, and if it is available to us let me
know. Please make sure that there is a
web site or some way that our friends can obtain tickets if needed.
The Lehigh Valley Arts Council has
many other things of interest to do. http://www.lvartsboxoffice.org
Nearly 4,000 people cast votes for
musicians competing in the 11th edition of the Lehigh Valley Music Awards -- a
record number.
Voting was Oct. 5-25 in 24 business categories -- such as best music store and
best open mic -- and 33 fan categories -- such as best male vocalist and best
teenage band.
The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. Dec. 1 at Allentown Symphony Hall. Fourteen acts, will perform. They
include Bank Street Band (Easton School of Rock), Frederick Douglas, Vose, Dina
Hall, Scott Marshall's Highway, No Heroes, Tim Harakal, Lane Conklin, Sheki
& Red, James Supra Blues Band,
Fusion Jazz Trio,
Billy Bauer Band, New Amsterdam and Ian Holmes and The
Holmes Family
Emcee will be LVMA board member Barry Hay. Presenters include Tom Ring; Kim
Plyler; Mark Gutman; Audie Cohen, Sharon McCarthy and Allison DelRe of WDIY; DJ
Cap Cee, Ken Matthews, Matt Metal, Alfonso Todd the 3rd and more.
The Founder's Award will be presented to Pete Davis, owner of Signal Sound.
''Twenty Years Ago Today'' honorees are Lenny Long, Alexxis Steele, Poker Face,
Maureen ''Moe'' Jerant and Jimmy Meyer.
Sponsors include Brown Daub Kia, Blue Mountain Winery, Banko/Yuengling, Bastian
Carpet One, WDIY, Metromix, Women in Art in PA, Martin Guitar, Signal Sound,
Dave Phillips Music & Sound, Kremmer's Cafe, Back Door Bake Shop, Luis
Silva Jewelers, De Voe's Music, ArtsQuest, Westwires Recording USA, Women's Blues
Alliance, Lehigh Valley Blues Network, Oshradio.com, West End Music, Wegmans,
We Rock Foundation, Billy Weber, The Tinder Box, Banners & Signs, Lehigh
Valley Music Conference, Montgomery Bucks Music Awards and Jake Kaligis.
Tickets are $10, advance; $15, at the door. Get tickets from bands and at http://www.lehighvalleymusicawards.org .
-- Jodi Duckett