So what are YOU doing Fourth of July weekend? You don’t have a golden ticket to the Chicago festivities. You know you need to stay as far away from the insanity at the beach and the theme parks as possible. The annual PBS broadcast is a non-starter. There’s really only one sensible place to be:…
The Red Lion Pub in Winter Park has been in the Ryan family for almost 25 years (expect a party in September – probably on a Tuesday night!). That would be Christian Ryan’s family. Christian’s talent and tenacity are known throughout the south. Let’s talk about two numbers: 250, and 20. 250 is the number…
YOU HAVE 8 EVENTS TODAY! Facebook users/devotees/junkies are familiar with this message, telling you that you have an event scheduled for that day. It was trying to tell me what was on tap. Actually, Dear Facebook, I only have one event I will be attending. Seriously, there were eight excellent musical offerings on Saturday, and…
The 8th annual Purple Hatter’s Ball was winding down to its Sunday conclusion at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. Fae Nageon de Lestang and Grant McLeod, members of Flat Land, were about to head back home to Gainesville. They had performed second at Thursday’s pre-party and again on Friday at the River Stage. Here…
Gov-Fest 2015 at the Maddox Ranch was a magical time for a lot of reasons, but chief among those were the stunning performance of Flat Land, a quartet out of Gainesville, and the remarkable interplay between Fae Nageon de Lestang of Flat Land on violin and her musical twin Dani Jaye of Come Back Alice….
Perhaps elsewhere Friday the 13th was unlucky, but at Gov-Fest good fortune and wonderful music surrounded us all day long (OK, it was a little chilly for the Floridians). It was a remarkable day, with the two side-by-side stages keeping the party going continuously from 11 AM to 3:30 AM, at which point festivities shifted…