Upcoming WMNF Events

WMNF's 4th Annual AmericanaFest

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Florida's music scene is hot in 2009. Here's your chance to see the best in Florida roots rock and alt-country and one of the pioneering bands of alt-country, Blue Mountain.
**The Schedule:** **Nine Volts (Cape Canaveral) 3:00-3:30** **Matt Butcher (Orlando) 3:45-4:15** **Roppongi's Ace (Tampa) 4:30-5:00** **Mike Dunn & the Kings of New England (Winter Park) 5:15-5:45** **Black Finger (Lake Worth) 6:00-6:30** **Nervous Turkey (Tampa) 6:45-7:15** **Thomas Wynn & the Believers (Orlando) 7:30-8:00** **Have Gun Will Travel (Bradenton) 8:15-8:45** **Will Quinlan & the Diviners (Tampa) 9:00-9:30** **Ted Lukas & the Misled (Tampa) 9:45-10:15** **Blue Mountain (Oxford, MS) 10:30-midnight**

**Tickets are $12 Adv/ $15 Door** DOORS & WILL-CALL open at 2pm **THE BANDS:**

Movie: Outrage

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OUTRAGE is our next film to be shown at the Tampa Pitcher Show on Wednesday, July 15th, 7PM. **Ticket prices will be $8 in advance and $10 day of show. This will be a first “first run” film!** For those who have not yet heard of Outrage, it's a documentary by Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated) about closeted Republican hypocrites and the way their hypocrisy damages lives — not only their personal lives but the millions of gays and lesbians their homophobic policymaking affects. It's a well-packaged effort covering the Reagan years and the birth of the religious right to the present, wrapping up the stories of Idaho Senator Larry Craig, Virginia Rep. Ed Schrock, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign manager Ed Mehlman, former GOP National Field Director Dan Gurley, former Arizona congressman Jim Kolbe, former Louisiana congressman Jim McCrery, and current congressman David Dreier, into a tightly wound exposé of closeted D.C. It's the first major piece of media which has painted such a comprehensive, unflinching look at the GOP's closet. The film shines an especially unflattering spotlight on Florida Governor Charlie Crist, devoting much of its time to the stories that have already been told (by alternative press) about the governor, and his various relationships with women which have fallen conveniently during campaign periods. It also asks why mainstream media has refused to cover them. The filmmakers attempted to talk to Kelly Heyniger, Crist's last girlfriend before marrying wife Carole Rome in the run-up to McCain's VP pick. His relationship with Heyniger ended in 2007. The filmmakers wanted to ask her about his sexuality. Heyniger told them: "I think I'll just keep my mouth shut...call me in 10 years and I'll tell you a story." The early efforts of Michelangelo Signorile in outing politicians, and the crusades of blogger Mike Rogers (blogactive) are also highlighted. Dick's deft layering of audio tapes, interviews, and sexual confessions against the anti-gay votes these politicians have made reveals how journalists and the mainstream media, which the film ultimately damns for its refusal to expose hypocrisy, have been complicit in keeping public figures in the closet. And the tragic and horrific effect the closet has had on LGBT rights and public policy is made all the more clear. The film features interviews with Jim McGreevey, Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff (who tells the story of how he met FOX News anchor Shepard Smith in a gay bar), Idaho statesman reporter Dan Popkey, former Luxembourg ambassador Jim Hormel, David Phillips, the D.C. IT technologist who tells his story about sleeping with Larry Craig in graphic detail, DC City Council member David Catania, former HRC director Elizabeth Birch, BlogActive blogger Mike Rogers, Gurley, Andrew Sullivan, congressman Barney Frank, Michelangelo Signorile, Hilary Rosen, former LCR exec. director Rich Tafel, Tammy Baldwin, Tony Kushner, and many more. (text from Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies)

The Avett Brothers plus Matt Butcher

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**$17 advance, $20 door** The Avetts Brothers show that was scheduled for October, was postponed because of the birth of Scott Avett's daughter. It was then going to be May 2nd & cancelled due to the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND TOUR, but is NOW rescheduled to be July 18th at the Cuban Club! **If you have tickets for the previous date**, *those tickets will be honored!!* They are working on their debut album for American Recording, produced by Rick Rubin. Don't miss this chance to see one of the hottest live bands in the country.

Cracker, plus Gringo Star

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**Tickets will be available at OUTLET soon...you may reserve here or by phone & pick up at will-call ~ we have no hard tickets yet ~ $15 Adv/ $20 Door** The creative genius behind the bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery is back with edgy, innovative and original rock songs with the new Cracker release, "Sunrise In The Land Of Milk and Honey".

A brief rundown of Cracker’s history: Lowery, in the mid-80s, in Santa Cruz, California, formed Camper Van Beethoven, and their “Take the Skinheads Bowling” became an instant college radio staple. When CVB disbanded on tour in Sweden, following their second major label release, Lowery formed Cracker with his longtime friend Johnny Hickman. (The pair had met on the local music scene as teenagers in Redlands, CA.) Cracker’s emergent sound had less in common with Camper’s exotic excursions and was more in synch with the Kinks and Southern roots music. They released their self-titled debut on Virgin, and following the #1 Modern Rock hit “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now),” the band became a minor commercial sensation (complete with then-significant MTV exposure). The platinum-selling Kerosene Hat contained the enormous, era-defining hit single “Low,” as well as “Get Off This,” and “Eurotrash Girl.” When the dust settled, Cracker found themselves with an ever-growing, devoted following both in the U.S. (where fans refer to themselves as Crumbs) and throughout Europe. Today the band stays well connected to yet another generation of fans via internet, many of whom were kids when these alt-rock godfathers were first ruling rock radio. Here's the video for their new single, "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out With Me" - it's already a WMNF smash [hit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyxIrfjla88)

Film: Woodstock: The Director's Cut"

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On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival and WMNF's Woodstock "re-creation", we present:
"Woodstock: The Director's Cut," a documentary about the 1969 three-day concert held in Bethel, NY, on a 600 acre dairy farm. The original documentary was released in 1970 and became the film that best described the sixties in its positive manifestation of peace and love; it was tremendously influential in sending the "hippie message" to every corner of the country. If you missed the Sixties and want to know what it was all about, here is where you start. "The Director's Cut" contains an extra 44 minutes of footage and the sound is now in Dolby Digital.

STORY: "Nearly 40 years after its theatrical release, Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock remains the titan of rock documentaries. Few docus, rock or otherwise, can approach its ability to immerse audiences in a particular place and time... Held over three days in August, 1969, just outside the rolling farmlands of Bethel, N.Y., the Woodstock music festival showcased some of the best rock and folk of that decade, including the Who; Jimi Hendrix; Janis Joplin; Sly and the Family Stone; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Joe Cocker; Santana; Creedence Clearwater Revival; the Grateful Dead; Joan Baez; Arlo Guthrie; Country Joe & the Fish and many others."

"But the event transcended that of rock 'n' roll spectacle. It drew an estimated 400,000 people -- far eclipsing what its organizers had anticipated -- to become an iconic touchstone in an era of unparalleled social upheaval. The young people across the country who attended endured rain, mud, food shortages and poor sanitation, but the tradeoff was worth the countercultural bliss. In many respects, Woodstock proved to be the final hurrah for a generation that believed it could change the world."

"For historical purposes alone, Woodstock would be worthwhile viewing. But director Michael Wadleigh possessed the ambition, vision and skill to do it right. Armed with a gaggle of hungry young moviemakers (including a then-unknown Martin Scorsese), Wadleigh employed 16 cameras to record more than 100 miles of celluloid. The result, an overwhelming mass of sights and sounds, proved ideal for generous use of split screens. The effect brilliantly conveys the full-blown Woodstock experience -- the music, traffic jams, drugs, mud, skinny-dipping and, of course, the bad brown acid that prompted a warning from the stage. Used in Woodstock several years before split screens would become a cliché of Seventies cinema, the multiple images give Wadleigh leeway to make ironic visual juxtapositions and sly observations."

REVIEW: "The music is great, and the performances are enhanced by unusually intimate camerawork. While modern-day rockumentaries typically trade in quick edits and stylistic gimmickry, Wadleigh prefers long, uninterrupted shots. Richie Havens' two numbers that are showcased, 'Handsome Johnny' and 'Freedom / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,' are nearly hypnotic in their intensity. The Who, Joe Cocker, Sly and the Family Stone and Ten Years After are equally riveting, while Hendrix's guitar assault on 'The Star-Spangled Banner' remains one of rock 'n' roll's singular milestones. Even the lesser performances are fascinating. A clearly stoned John Sebastian provides some laughably hippie-dippy chatter before launching into 'Younger Generation,' which at least gave the filmmakers an opportunity to do a montage of Woodstock babies and toddlers."

"Still, what makes the Oscar-winning film resonate 40 years later is the time that the cameras spend away from the stage. The Sixties' youth movement is captured for posterity, in all its irony-free, tiedyed, psychedelic, hair-flapping, glassy-eyed idealism. Many of the young people interviewed are inadvertently hilarious. One conspiracy-minded young man blames the rain on governmental cloud-seeding. A yoga instructor promises her pupils, 'If you do it right, you'll be flashing momentarily.' The outpouring of naiveté and enthusiasm, even if pot-addled, is curiously endearing."

"The 228-minute director's cut adds about 45 minutes to an already-lengthy movie. Woodstock aficionados won't mind the additional couch time. Included in the extended version are performances by Canned Heat (great), Joplin (not one of her best showings) and Jefferson Airplane (so-so), as well as Hendrix tearing through 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).'" - Written by Phil Bacharach on DVDtalk.com

Woodstock : The 40th Anniversary Re-Creation

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**Tickets the same price of the original Woodstock Festival: $18 advance, $24 at the gate**

**Tickets will be available at OUTLET soon...you may reserve here or by phone & pick up at will-call ~ we have no hard tickets yet** The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, probably the most famous and important music and cultural event of the 20th century, began on August 15, 1969. 40 years later WMNF re-creates the festival with more than 20 of the best Tampa Bay bands each playing the highlights of the set of one of the Woodstock bands. Bands will play in the same order they played back in 1969... **Acho Brother**, as Richie Havens
**Ted Lukas and the Misled**, as Arlo Guthrie
**Liz Hollister**, as Joan Baez
**Ronny Elliott**, as Country Joe MacDonald
**Rob Aptheker**, as John Sebastian
**Point 6**, as Santana
**Captain Obvious**, as Mountain
**Jessica Atkinson**, as Janis Joplin
**Uncle John's Band**, as The Grateful Dead
**Talk To Mark**, as Creedence Clearwater Revival
**Four Star Riot**, as Sly and the Family Stone
**The Beauvilles**, as The Who
**Big Wiggler**, as Jefferson Airplane
**Scott Elliott**, as Joe Cocker, with **Talk To Mark** as The Grease Band
**Johnny G. Lyon Band**, as Ten Years After
**Thomas Wynn and the Believers**, as The Band
**Blue Dice**, as Blood Sweat and Tears
**Sarasota Slim**, as Johnny Winter
**The Ditchflowers**, as Crosby Stills Nash and Young
**Juke Joint Kings**, as Paul Butterfield Blues Band
**Vodkanauts**, as ShaNaNa
**Soul2Earth**, as Jimi Hendrix

Ist Annual WMNF GrooveFest

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We've started our planning, and have lined up 4 bands so far - Earth Bombs Mars, Middle Rythm Session, Burnin Smyrnans and Cope. We've been calling it GrooveFest,

WMNF 30th Birthday Party: The Big 3-0

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We are celebrating thirty years of community radio with a fabulous party on three stages at the newly renovated Ritz Ybor. **PAUL THORN** - WMNF favorite Paul Thorn, with his great soulful roots rock and tales of southern working class life and loves. **SAMANTHA CRAIN AND THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS** -the 22 year old Choctaw Indian with spell- binding folk rock is one of the most acclaimed new artists in music. **LEGENDARY JC'S** - The energy of James Brown, the soul of Otis Redding, the chops of Little Richard: sweaty, horn-fueled, old-school R&B. **BARELY PINK** - the REUNION of Tampa's great power pop band of 1995-2003 **NERVOUS TURKEY** raucous blues rock by one of Tampa Bay's favorite live bands

**AMANDA SHIRES** - talented Texas fiddler and singer-songwriter

**TRIBAL STYLE** - the finest roots reggae
**KNOCK DOWN DRAG OUT** - the new band fronted by Rocket 88's Michael Bales. The good news for Rocket 88 fans is that the raucous sound of Knock Down Drag Out is much in the Rocket 88 turbocharged rockabilly mode.
**HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL** One of the most played bands on WMNF in the last year, they play infectious, lyrical folk-rock with great hooks.
**RAY OLAN AND THE JAZZ OLE BAND** Salsa pop reggae

**Tickets will be on sale as the show nears...**

Here Comes the Sun: The WMNF Tribute to Abbey Road and The Beatles

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With September 26 as the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles "Abbey Road", WMNF celebrates that amazing record and the Beatles. This mega-event will include an acoustic re-creation of Abbey Road at 6pm and an electric re-creation at 11pm. The rest of the day will feature the best bands of Tampa Bay playing Beatles's songs. **Tickets will be on sale as the show nears...**

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, plus The Eilen Jewell Band

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Two of the outstanding acts at the 2009 Tropical Heatwave come back for a powerful double bill or roots rock. The picture shows Sarah Borges at Heatwave; here's how a Creative Loafing blogger described it:

8:08 p.m.: Here's an awesome thing that just happened.

Sarah Borges was wrapping up her set in the Bandshell. It was drizzling, but her audience had slowly built back up during the course of her rip-roaring blues-rock set. And in the middle of her final song, she decided the audience wasn't quite as into it as she felt they ought to be.

So Borges hopped offstage (sans mic), ran through the crowd, grabbed a vinyl chair and climbed on. She implored the audience to join her in a rain-soaked, unplugged call-and-response.

"Turn your lights down low!" Borges called.

"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"

. "Open up your back door!"

"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!"

She pulled a fan's fuzzy purple hat off his head and did it all again.

"Turn your lights down low!"

"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"

"Open up your back door!"

"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!

Then she ran back onstage and finished her set. Great stuff. This is the kind of moment that you hear about whenever people reminisce fondly of Heatwave.

**Tickets will be on sale as the show nears...**