March 25, 2014

  • A Musical Weekend

    I'd say I had a sensational weekend of music, except that Barbara had a 50% more sensational weekend than I did, given that I had to work Saturday night, and she didn't.  So I guess that makes me a piker.

    Anyway, just to recap.  Thursday we drove to Stuart to hear Doc Grober and the Mudcats.  Old-fashioned dixieland, one of my faves.  Saturday, Barbara went a similar distance in the opposite direction, north to Cocoa Beach, to hear Sybil Gage and she's always awesome.  Then Jazz Week started in Fort Pierce, just a few miles south of our home, and Sunday afternoon we took in both shows there.  The first group were some reasonably talented local musicians, but the second group, wow.  The players and singers were individually all different from the ones named here yesterday, save for the Fodera brothers.  I had never heard of Otis Cadillac (Joe Fodera) before Sunday.  But he's the real deal, and 85-year-old wonder who makes a career out of turning himself into Bo Diddley and The Big Bopper and Bill Haley all rolled into one.

    He bills his group -- Otis Cadillac and the El Dorados with the Seville Sisters -- as one that offers "Old School, Real Cool Rock & Roll."  And man did the joint rock.  For two and a half hours without much of a break.  Three encores after the "closing number."  The Seville Sisters -- Tish and Kat Riggins Seville -- in particular were different from whom you see when you go to YouTube and look them up.

    That seems to be the norm around here.  Whether it's Doc Grober, or whether it's Otis Cadillac, or whoever, the individual players are whoever they can get to come up on the stage and wail.  Lots of talent in South Florida to choose from.  And the bands we heard Thursday and Saturday.  Just wow.  Tish Seville hit some notes when she was out front that I didn't even know existed.  And Kat Riggins Seville reminded me of a young Marilyn McCoo.  She's that beautiful.  And a big voice.

    What I posted yesterday is not an overstatement.

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