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• WYANDOTTE’S 50TH ANNUAL ART FAIR!!
• BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED: JOHNNY BEE BADANJEK
• JD MALONE & THE EXPERTS: UTTERLY CAPTIVATING!

WYANDOTTE’S 50TH ANNUAL ART FAIR!! Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:01 PM PDT Johnny "Bee" Badanjek Einstein and His Avengers WHAT: SPECIAL DISPLAY AND MEET THE ARTISTS NIGHTS TO COORDINATE WITH DOWNTOWN WYANDOTTE'S 50TH ANNUAL ART FAIR. WHEN: JULY 13TH-16TH 10AM TO 9 PM WHERE: RIVER'S EDGE GALLERY 3024 BIDDLE ST. DOWNTOWN WYANDOTTE CONTACT: JEREMY HANSEN 734-246-9880 riversedgegallery@wyan.org The Wyandotte 50th annual art fair is coming to downtown Wyandotte on July 13th-16th. At the same time River's Edge Gallery in the downtown will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. The gallery has been an institution as part of the Michigan art scene and recently showcased as such on the PBS series Under the Radar. Check out the main website here... Wyandotte Art Fair For this occasion, the three floors of River's Edge Gallery will be filled with works by artists living and dead that have been showcased for the last thirty years with a special presentation on the second floor. Many of these artists will be making appearances to meet their collectors and fans. Six to nine PM each evening of the fair has been set aside for just that. Wine will be served while Ken Browne, one of the artists, will be entertaining with guitar selections on guitars that he hand painted. Tony Miello of Detroit Fan Fare will be demonstrating live comic book drawing on Saturday. A partial list of artists that will be making appearances is available and includes Jeremy E Hansen, Steve Glazier, Ed Lepere, Amy Chenier, Audrey Pongracz, Patricia Izzo, Johnny "Bee" Badanjek (of Detroit Wheels, the Rockets and Howling Diablo fame) , Nancy Pitel, Dennis Jacobs, SLAW, Rudy Salazar III, Brigit Hutterman-Holtz, David Bandlow and ME Croci. The list and days of appearances will be updated at www.artattheedge.com. Special items can be viewed at the gallery that will only be available during the fair such as hand painted, signed sports jerseys by Ed Lepere. Mr. Lapere has been commissioned to do portraits by over 80 athletes including Steve Yzerman, Reggie Jackson, and Pete Rose. He worked as a licensed artists for 5 professional teams as well as for the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. The jerseys are signed by the likes of Barry Sanders, Alan Trammell, Chris Spielman, Calvin Johnson, Adamukong Suh and Steve Yzerman and then their portrait is hand painted by LaPere. There will also be never before offered originals from the Memories of Detroit series by William Moss and special sports signed and sold out prints from this series. Hard to come by new originals by Niagara are also featured. 　 Wyandotte Art Fair July 12-16

BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED: JOHNNY BEE BADANJEK Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:42 AM PDT The new Buddy Holly C.D. is out and getting rave review's! Johnny Bee... This cd features my friends The Detroit Cobras and Johnny Bee Badanjek.... enjoy!!! I love my copy... XXOOK RAVE ON BUDDY HOLLY' DEBUTS IN BILLBOARD TOP 20 FOLLOWING MASSIVE CRITICAL ACCLAIM!!! LISTEN TO ALBUM PRODUCER RANDALL POSTER DISCUSS HOLLY'S "MUSICAL ALCHEMY" ON NPR'S WEEKEND EDITION: The star-studded 'Rave On Buddy Holly' debuted in the Billboard Top 20 this week at #15, an exceedingly rare feat for a tribute compilation. The high-profile debut follows features from Rolling Stone, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, and NPR's Weekend Edition, and favorable reviews from SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, MOJO, the Associated Press, and Fresh Air. Listen to NPR's Weekend Edition to hear 'Rave On' executive producer Randall Poster and contributing artist Jenny O. discuss Holly's legacy and influence on generations of musicians: AOL recently debuted the video for Justin Townes Earle's take on Holly's classic "Maybe Baby." Hi-res album art, press releases, links, etc: For more information, please contact Chris Taillie (ctaillie@shorefire.com) or Matt Hanks (mhanks@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media: (718) 522-7171. For Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group: Joel Amsterdam - 310-385-4206

JD MALONE & THE EXPERTS: UTTERLY CAPTIVATING! Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:05 AM PDT Just got the press release for JD Malone and I LOVE this guy and his band... So unique and the music makes me wanna jump up and dance... Retro for sure but current as well. Cehck these guys out.... xxooK The world who is most oozing with charisma. Great singer, great songs, great players. That's a trifecta to draw to." - Michael Tearson, Sirius XM PHILADELPHIA – Avalon, the debut release by JD MALONE & THE EXPERTS (ItsAboutMusic.com), is a CD/DVD package that delivers extraordinary roots rock which brings to mind the snarl and grit of a young Steve Earle, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp through a sterling band and its honey-voiced leader. Tapped by Goldmine as a 'Download of the Week' and declared "utterly captivating" in a five-star review by Sea of Tranquility, Avalon also features a 37-minute DVD documentary of the band in studio rehearsals for the recording of the album and is accompanied by a 12-page, full-color booklet with all lyrics and personal bios of each member in the band. The CD version includes five bonus tracks not available for download, making the CD a full 79 minutes long. The album was recorded at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, PA with Grammy winning engineer Phil Nicolo (Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Lauryn Hill) and executive producer Dean Sciarra of ItsAboutMusic.com. JD MALONE &THE EXPERTS are not out to invent something with Avalon, but they sure go a long way towards perfecting it, as only experts do. Stylistically, the band's music is the sort that you might hear at a backwoods VFW Hall on a Saturday night, drawing on the radio-friendly catalogues of classic American roots-rockers like Credence Clearwater Revival. Direct Current calls the music on Avalon "a hearty, meat-and-potatoes musical stew [featuring] sturdy rock riffs [which] mingle with a dusty twang while the rhythm section rumbles like a well-tuned hemi on a flat, open stretch." But JD MALONE &THE EXPERTS is no lame cover band butchering "Proud Mary." They are a rock-solid unit with a dynamic leader "oozing with charisma" (Sirius XM) in singer-songwriter in JD Malone (imagine, say, Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band if they played modified country music). And their songs, as instantly recognizable as they may seem, are all Malone originals (with the exception of excellent covers of Fogerty's "Fortunate Son" on the CD and Tom Petty's "I Should Have Known It" on the bonus live in-studio DVD). While Malone is clearly in charge, much of Avalon's appeal comes from the remarkable chemistry of the band, including Malone (vocals, acoustic guitar), Avery Coffee (electric guitars, bg vocals), Tom Hampton (pedal and lap steel, 12-string, acoustic, resonator & electric guitars, bg vocals), Jim Miades (bass), Tommy Geddes (drums), and the extraordinary guest vocals of Jayda Hampton (especially on the beautifully wrenching "Black Yodel"). They sound like they've been preparing for this moment all their lives, listening to the Everly Brothers, CCR, BoDeans, Allman Brothers, Petty, et al, and crafting songs and a sound that do their heroes proud. The band is both tight (well-rehearsed but not rigid) and loose (spontaneous-sounding, not sloppy), placing equal emphasis on vocal and instrumental prowess with a good dose of twang. You'll want to cruise down the road with the windows open singing at the top of your lungs as if you were discovering "Proud Mary" for the first time on your car radio. Listen to Avalon here: http://www.jdmalone.com/audio/ Watch JD Malone & the Experts here... Visit -JD's Website for more info and video DPK - www.AirplayDirect.com/JDMAlone

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