Hi gang!
Last week’s CMC Sunday jam was really rockin’ with fabulous guest hosts: Becky Boyd, Michael Bay and Kevin Fancher! The great music continued throughout the evening with the night’s jam participants playing everything from blues to jazz and rock to country. Thanks to all our jammers including: Autumn of Aeons (Steve, James, Hiede, and Ashley), The Pepper Monkeys (Fred Esposito, Chris Podracky, Anthony Esposito and Scott), Gerald Hurd, Bob Laeng, Joe Zelinski, Chase Ockuly, John Hamley, David Crowe, Bob Laverty, Dougie Lixx Manross, John Powell, Gene Klaus, TJ Plechaty, Blake Kniola, Sammy Free, Greg Boehnlein, George Shumway, Pat Reiter, Katyana Speckman, Aimee Bellinger, and Mike Frate. Thanks also to our sponsor for the night, Dirty Town Guitar and Amps (Congrats to winners Pat, Mike and Chase), to everyone else who came out to listen to some music, eat a little, drink a little and have a lot of fun including: Lisa, Phil, Kathy, Renee and George. Colossal thanks to Emily and Vern who did a fantastic job keeping the crowd fed and watered all night.
Tuesday’s edition of the CMC Musicians’ Jam Night at Doc and Louie’s was another fun-filled evening with guest hosts Joe Brunetti and Eroc Sosinski. Thanks to Jay Smith, Mike Frate, Ben Carr, Jeffrey Beam, Dan Pfeifer, Louis Johnson, Bob Laeng, John Kerver, Gerald Hurd, Luke Pernici, Dave Poirier, TJ Plechaty, David Lewicki, Jim Luchesse, Bill Sanders, Greg Kern, Katyana Speckman, Saam Cabot, Dan Hearns, Honeycomb and Dennis Raymond for filling our night with music. Props also to Lisa, Ron, Barb, Dave K., Pat, John B., Vern, Amanda, Jason, Jimmy, the Dancing Marilyns and the rest of Doc’s music loving patrons for your continued support of all things music! Finally, thanks to Doc and his crew for making sure we never run out of food and beverages.
Wednesday’s CMC gig at the Fairview Tavern with ‘Furious’ George Hartwig and Kevin ‘Hollywood’ Fancher was a lot of fun! It was great to see Jen, Diane, Jan, Gerald, Lenna and new friends Nora, Gary and Traci out to party with us on a Wednesday evening!
Coming up this week…
Tonight’s CMC Sunday Jam at 42 Eighty Food and Drink (4280 Shenandoah Pkwy., Brunswick, 7pm – 11pm) features guest hosts ‘Furious’ George Hartwig and Tim Hamman, Emily behind the bar and Vern manning the kitchen. The food is awesome (40 cent wings and the most awesome homemade kettle chips w/ dip!), the beer is cold ($4 pitchers of domestic beer and happy hour prices until 9pm!) and full backline (two guitar amps, bass amp, Sonor drums, Alesis QS 6 keyboard and PA) is provided, so bring your favorite axe or sticks and come jam with us!
On Tuesday, join us at Doc and Louie’s (24280 Lorain Rd., North Olmsted, 7pm – 11pm) for the weekly CMC Musicians’ Jam Night. Guest hosts this week are ‘Furious’ George Hartwig and Gary ‘G Rock’ Stulak. As always, Doc’s amazing burgers are $4.95 (w/fries) all night and margaritas are $3 until 9pm. There’s plenty of parking in Doc’s front and back lots, O’Reilly’s back lot and their front lot after they close at 9pm. Full backline (two guitar amps, bass amp, Sonor drums, Alesis QS6 keyboard and PA) is provided, so bring your favorite axe, sticks or just your party attitude and dancing shoes and come join the fun!
This Friday, Shady Drive returns to The Upper Deck (375 W. Bagley Rd., Berea, 9pm – 1am) to party the night away. Playing ‘the Deck’ is always fun with their regular gang and great food and drinks. It’s a great room and there’s plenty of parking, so come join us!
Then on Saturday, Cleveland Music Club will appear at 42 Eighty Food and Drink (4280 Shenandoah Pkwy, Brunswick, 8:30 – 12:30) Come join Erin Rossi, Tony Koussa Jr., Chad May, Kevin Fancher and me as we play your favorite tunes from the 60’s through today! It’s party time!
That’s all for this week! We’ll talk soon…
Mike :c)