A 18
Three Chords
and the Truth
By Ronnie Narmour
[email protected]
Review: Todd Dorn
Island Moon
February 28, 2013
WELCOME WINTER TEX ANS
Mike Williams
Every 1st & 3rd Friday
And Every Monday (5-7)
Free Beer Band
Every Thursday
(7:00 pm)
321 N Alister * (361) 749-2337
Carol Elliott
Every 2nd & 4th Friday
(5-7)
Open Jam with Uel
Jackson Every Sunday
(7- 11)
Ruben V (San Antonio, TX). And in April, keep
you eye out for some real surprises like Moon
Light Social and Della Mae.
Gimme that Old Time Religion…
Todd Dorn played Shorty’s
last Saturday night.
Well, Shorty’s finally came around with a
live music performance last week and it was a
goodern! Island fave, Todd Dorn (San Antonio,
TX) hit town with our favorite bass player in
tow, Jay Springer. These two guys have a
natural chemistry about them and when you
add Shorty’s laid back ambience to that mix,
it only gets stronger. Dorn lived and worked
in Port A for many moons and moved back to
San Antonio a few years ago where he’s been in
the process of recording a new CD with Radio
Dog recording engineer, Jerry Clayton. While
he did live here, Dorn polished his easy going
“island” sound that I like to say, goes down as
smooth as a mango margarita. Listen to him
sing A Million Miles Away and you can easily
envision our beach and our town. If I had to
pigeon hole his music, I’d say it was country
two-stepping with a heavy dose of salt and
sand. Todd usually plays SandFest every year
so we should be seeing him around the end of
April… and that’s a good thing. This show at
Shorty’s really hit the spot. Everything about it
was perfect.
DO NOT MISS LIST
South By South West Music Conference
f(x) will be one of the showcase bands at
this year’s SXSW.
The 27th South by South West (SXSW) Music
and Media Conference will be held in Austin
on March 8- 17. Thi s conference has the
reputation of being the biggest and most
anticipated convergence of all things musical.
By day, thousands of conference registrants
will network the halls of the Austin Convention
Center while doing business at the SXSW Trade
Show, sit in on informative panel discussions
featuring some of the industry’s key players,
listen to the insight of legendary keynote
speakers while they plan out their night time
party schedules of hundreds upon hundreds of
musical acts from around the globe on over one
hundred stages in downtown Austin.
According to their website, “The music event
Green Day will play the SXSW Music
Conference in March.
has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to
over 16,000 registrants. As Austin has grown
and diversified, film companies and hightech companies have played a major role in
the Austin and the Texas economies. In 1994,
SXSW added a film and interactive component
to accommodate these growth industries. SXSW
Film and SXSW Interactive events together
attract approximately 32,000 registrants to
Austin every March. SXSW’s original goal was
to create an event that would act as a tool for
creative people and the companies they work
with to develop their careers, to bring together
people from a wide area to meet and share
ideas.”
You do the math…
The cost of a SXSW Music Badge goes from
$625 to $795 depending on how early you
register. To buy a Platinum Badge, which is an
all access pass, prices begins at $1150 and go
to $1595 depending on how early you register.
It’s sure grown from when I used to attend it
throughout the 90’s and it only cost a few
hundred dollars to attend. We thought that was
high even back then. Multiply 16,000 people
times $1595 and, well, I’d say this has turned
out to be a worth while endeavor. I know the
city of Austin is pretty happy about it. In all the
times I attended SXSW as either a talent buyer,
a venue operator, a booking agent or a music
writer, I was never convinced that I actually
profited that greatly from the experience. The
return on investment was debatable although
the parties were world class.
The Back Porch re-opens in one week…
Cruise Control will play the Back Porch
on March 15th.
Here we go everybody… hold on tight! Exactly
one week from today, on Thursday, March 8th,
the Back Porch Bar in Port A will re-open for the
2013 season. This noteworthy event is followed
closely by Spring Break and St. Patty’s Day.
The Coast ClubClub
Coast
Martini Sports Bar
C Plus
Samantha
Aiken
F I N E A RT
Every Friday
C Plus
Spring Break
March 15-16
Stevie Start
Every Saturday
Thur, Fri, Sat
No Cover Charge
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Smoking on Patio
WINDOW
Port Aransas
(361) 749-JOES
TINT
(361) 749-2388
Smoking on Patio Only
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Specials
Cody Angel with play with Matt Wayne
and Company on March 14th.
Our old friend, Davin James (Houston, TX),
has the honors of being the first band to play
the Porch for the season (Friday, March 9th).
Davin has played there many, many times and
his down home style of country music is always
a treat. And on Saturday, the 10th, another old
friend, Mike Blakely y los Yahoos (Marble
Falls, TX) will perform. Blakely is a celebrated
author and musician who helps define the real
Texas Country Music sound. On the following
weekend, Matt Wayne and Company (Ft.
Worth, TX) will play (Thursday, March 14th).
This will be the official Spring Break kick-off
and our favorite son, Cody Angel, just happens
to be the featured lead guitarist for this band.
This show should be nuts! Then on Friday, the
15th, the big ten piece horn fueled party band,
Cruise Control (Corpus Christi, TX) will bring
us some funky, funky dance tunes. This is one
of the Porch’s favorite bands who will play
throughout the season. And finally on Saturday,
March 16th, the upwardly mobile Six Market
Boulevard (Stephenville, TX) brings there
own version of Americana meets Soul to the
house. This is a great line-up to put the Porch
in motion. On the remaining two weekends in
March, look for local songbird, Melissa Brooke
(Port Aransas, TX), Scarecrow People (Corpus
Christi, TX), Kevin Higgins & Barbara
Malteze (of the Dust Devils) and guitar wizard,
Steve Goldstein and Crawford Brown will
play the sunrise service this Easter.
I am in the process of helping my friend,
Father James Derkits, of the Trinity by the
Sea Episcopal Church in Port A, to assemble
a sunrise musical performance on Easter
Sunday at Robert’s Point Park. James’ idea is to
combine some morning church type musicians
that already play regularly at his church with
some night time string band type musicians to
perform old timey gospel hymns together like
“I’ll Fly Away” for the service. I have enlisted
the excellent capabilities of Steve Goldstein
(acoustic guitar, mandolin and vocals) and
Crawford Brown (stand-up bass and vocals)
from the Get Off the Lawn band and the
beautiful voice of Dennis Sullivan. Stay tuned.
I think this could turn into something very cool.
Email me if you are a musician who would
like to get involved in this project. A fiddle and
dobro player would be great.
And that’s the truth!
Live Music
Tonight
Thursday, Feb. 28
Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House
John Eric @ Island Italian
Antone & the All Stars @
Vampires
Dr. Rockits
Hilda Lamas CD Release
Mon-Sat
@ House of Rock
10am- 2am
Brandon Rhyder, 6 Market
Sun
Blvd. @ Brewster Street
Noon2am
Ice House
Uel Jackson (4-7) @ Sugar Ray T & the
Shack- Rockport
City Crew
Rich Lockhart @
Scuttlebutt’s
Every Friday
Friday, March 1
Mike Williams (5-7) @
Tarpon Ice House
Ray T & the City Crew @
Flats Lounge
Samantha Aiken @ Coast
Club
Uel Jackson @ Grogg
(Rockport)
Another Level @
Executive Surf Club
Full Body Puppets @
South Texas Ice House
Medicare Band @
Sharkey’s
Gary Moeller @ Coffee
Waves
ArtWalk w/ 90 Proof @
House of Rock
Spazmatics @ Brewster
Street Ice House
Monday, March 4
Mike Williams @ Tarpon Ice House
Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Doctor Rockits
Welcome
Wednesday, March 6
PA Rockers @ Bernie’s
Beach House
Naia Kete, Clarissa Serna
@ House of Rock
Re-opens March 7
Davin James
March 8
Mike Blakely
y los Yahoos
March 9
Matt Wayne Band
March 14
Cruise Control
March 15
Six Market Blvd
March 16
132 W. Cotter, Port Aransas,TX
AshVill Construction LLC
Residential, Multi-Family
Saturday, March 2
Uel Jackson @ Tarpon Ice & Commercial
New Construction
House
& Remodels
Stevie Start @ Coast Club
Mike Williams @
Ashley R. Villarreal
Hemingways Rockport
(210) 387-2993
Hardside, Afflictive
Aaron Murray
Nature, Ivy League, Bare
(361) 332- 9884
Knuckles, Lazy Eye,
Breaking Even @ House
[email protected]
of Rock
90 Proof @ Executive Surf
Club
Josh Ward @ South Texas
Ice House
Granger Smith, Earl
Dibbles, Jr. @ Brewster
Street Ice House
South Texas Honor Band
Orchestra @ UTAMCC
Performing Arts Center
Stuart Burns @ Coffee
Waves
Hardside, Breaking Even,
Lazy Eye, Bare Knuckles,
Ivy League, Afflictive
Nature @ House of Rock
Sunday, March 3
Open Jam w/ Uel Jackson
@ Tarpon Ice House
Tumble Dry Low @
Bernie’s Beach House
Ballabajoomba Poetry
Slam @ House of Rock
John Eric Open Jam @
South Texas Ice House
Open Jam @ Neptune’s
Ricky Nelson
Remembered Orchestra @
UTAMCC Performing Arts
Center
Tuesday, March 5
Open Mic @ House of
Rock
As I Lay Dying, Devil
Wears Prada, For Today,
Color Morale @ Concrete
Street Amphitheater
Keepers
Horace Caldwell Pier
(361) 749 - 5333
Fishing, Pole Rentals, Beer,
Burgers, Wings
The
Gaff
Beer ● Pizza ● Belt Sander Races (361) 749-5970
Thursday, March 7
The Back Porch Grand
Re-Openening
Antone & the All Stars @
Dr. Rockits
Free Beer Band @ Tarpon
Ice House
Bart Crow Band, Rob
Baird @ Brewster Street
Ice House
John Eric @ Island Italian
Uel Jackson (4-7) @
Sugar Shack- Rockport
CC in Motion Film
Contest @ House of Rock
Friday, March 8
Blind Owls @ Tango Tea
Room
Carol Elliott (5-7) @
Tarpon Ice House
Davin James Unplugged
@ Back Porch
Ray T & the City Crew @
Flats Lounge
Samantha Aiken @ Coast
Club
Hamilton Loomis @
Executive Surf Club
David & Barbara Brown
@ Coffee Waves
The Heroine, Cruz @
House of Rock
Saturday, March 9
Mike Blakely y los
Yahoos @ Back Porch
Stevie Start @ Coast
Club
Mike Williams @
Hemingways Rockport
2nd Saturday Sing-Along
Piano Show @ Brewster
Street Ice House
Max Stalling @
Executive Surf Club
Ken Barnett @ Coffee
Waves
Mod Sun, Cisco Adler,
Tayyib Ali, Pat Brown,
Choo Jackson @ House
of Rock
Sunday, March 10
Natural Vibrations, Bad
Chords @ Executive Surf
Club
AWOLNATION w/
Blondfire, Mother Mother
@ Brewster Street Ice
House
Thousand Foot Krutch,
Love & Death, The
Wedding, Letter Black @
House of Rock