"Legends of Beach" Play Pops In The Park
The North Carolina Symphony takes the stage at 7:00 for tonight’s free Pops In The Park performance. The event takes place at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre, and features the Legends of Beach, an 8-member all-star beach music lineup. The group consists of:
- Jackie Gore (lead singer, former Ember) – writer and original lead voice on the beach music classic, “I Love Beach Music”.
- Gerald Davis (former Ember)
- Jeff Grimes (former Ember)
- Mark Black (former Ember)
- Johnny Barker – wrote the beach music classic, “Summertime’s Calling Me”.
- Tony Davis (drums)
- Rusty Smith (trumpet)
- Jason Moore (sax)
- Steve Davis – former sound technician with the Embers for 20 years.
Gates open at 4:30 for the event and local performers will take the stage at 5pm. WRAL, a chief sponsor, will broadcast their coverage of the concert on Monday at 7pm and on 9/18 at 10:00p. Booth Amphitheatre has a varying policy on items allowed, but for this event, lawn chairs, blankets, small umbrellas, food, and beverages are allowed.
Weather may be a factor. Follow the latest reports at WRAL’s weather site. Here is a link to the Wake County doppler radar.
Cyrus Coming to Cary
G. Love/John Butler Concert Canceled
Due to an illness, the G. Love & Special Sauce/John Butler Trio concert for Thursday has been canceled, reports David Menconi. Tickets will be fully refunded.
It will be interesting to see in Butler or Tristan Prettyman will be playing any stand-alone gigs instead. They are upholding their date at the Myrtle Beach House of Blues.
Hall of Fame Concert Adds After Party at Lincoln Theatre
The Hall of Fame Concert weekend keeps growing! Organizers have added an after-party, added two all-star bands, and a golf event to the busy weekend. Does anyone else seriously think this event is growing to proportions that could make it an annual event that legends would want to be a part of? With the Jimmy V Classic having moved waaaaaay away, there is room for a celebrity event like this each year.
Here’s the official press release about the post-party:
Organizers of the visitRaleigh.com Benefit Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum (“Rock Hall”) and the John Entwistle Foundation, will host an after-party at the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh following the concert on September 20. The two-day visitRaleigh.com Benefit Concert will take place at the beautiful Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. on September 19-20, 2008. The late night jam session will feature artists from the much anticipated show as well as several special guests.
The after-party is open to the public and tickets are $14 in advance and $17 at the door. All VIP concert ticket holders gain admission into the after-party by presenting their VIP wristbands. Tickets go on sale Monday, August 18 at 10 a.m. via etix and online at www.lincolntheatre.com.
Opening the late night party will be Grand Society, which kicks off the Emerging Artists Showcase during the benefit concert. Following Grand Society to the stage will be Moonalice, an all-star band whose members include GE Smith (Saturday Night Live, Bob Dylan), Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship, Rod Stewart), Barry Sless (Phil Lesh & Friends, David Nelson Band), Ann & Roger McNamee (the Flying Other Brothers) and Jim Sanchez (Dr. John, Boz Scaggs). Expected to jam with Moonalice late that evening are a number of other artists who have performed over the ensuing two days.
Rick Derringer Joins Hall of Fame Concert
Rick Derringer has been added to the headline portion of the Friday night session of the Hall of Fame Concert. Derringer is best known for his 1974 hit “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo”, which has since been featured in the movies “Dazed and Confused” and “Sideways”. Later in the 1970’s Derringer went on to discover and produce Weird Al Yankovic.
Cream Vocalist Jack Bruce Added to Hall of Fame Concert
The Scottish-born bassist and lead singer of Cream, Jack Bruce, has agreed to join the growing list of legends playing the Hall of Fame Concert. The two-day classic rock festival opens the evening of September 19, 2008 at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. with the visitRaleigh.com national band search winner. Following that performance, the White Sox All-Star Band, made up of artists currently or formerly with several well-known bands, will come together to stage what is sure to be a much talked about and memorable ensemble performance. Closing the evening will be 2004 Rock Hall inductee Dave Mason, co-founder of the legendary band Traffic.
O.A.R. Returns to Cary
McCrimmon Corners Adds Ritas, Tossed
McCrimmon Corners (on 54 in Morrisville) is expanding and will soon get another area location of Rita’s Water Ice. In August the center will also get the state’s first location of Tossed, a 30o0 square foot restaurant featuring made-to-order salads, sandwiches, crepes, soups, desserts and smoothies.
For those who have ventured down 54 Davis Drive recently, McCrimmon Corners is the shopping center on the west side of the road anchored by a Harris Teeter. It also contains the excellent Taverna Nikos and Saffron.
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Hall of Fame Concert Grows to Two-Day Event
I recently received more news about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert coming to Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. So far, artists currently or formerly with Journey, Yes, Styx, Traffic, Jefferson Starship, Grateful Dead, John Entwistle Band, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blue Oyster Cult will join local artists such as Arrogance, The Connells, Grand Society, and Parmalee.
As reported in an earlier post, the event is centered around Saturday, September 20. The event has grown, though, and will actually begin on Friday, September 19. Anyone holding a ticket to the September 20 show will gain admittance to the September 19 opening night at no additional charge by showing his or her Saturday ticket at the front gate that evening.
Click “read more” for the full press release
Herons Names New Chef
TBJ is reporting that Herons has announced Paul Kellum as their new executive chef replacing Phil Evans. Kellum comes by way of the Blue Moon Restaurant (Vail) and Great Wolf Lodge (Williamsburg).
Arrogance, Connells Added to Hall of Fame Concert
The bill for the previously-mentioned Hall of Fame Concert at Booth Amphitheater (featuring the John Entwistle Band) just got better. Local legendary bands Arrogance and The Connells will also play at the concert benefiting the Hall of Fame’s education and outreach program.
Waverly Owners Reorganize
Back in the late 80’s one of Cary’s newest marquis corners was developed into one of the country’s most unusual strip shopping centers. Waverly Place, with its curvy, two-level, X-shaped design offered the growing south Cary area a nice grocery store, movie theaters, many restaurants, and plenty of high quality retail. It’s design was reminiscent of a resort center because it contained fountains, escalators, and bronze sculptures. Unfortunately the design was too daring. Across the street a competing center anchored by a Wal-Mart opened and took Waverly’s Harris Teeter. The incredibly boring, single unbroken strip design was far easier to navigate, and the public flocked.
Waverly became a ghost town until developers Zapolski and Rudd took over the site. Their solution: a total reorganization fostered razing half of the center. The Site Plan (.PDF) calls for keeping the northern fourth of the “X”, but the hub, southern half of the X, grocery store, and Red, Hot, & Blue outparcel will be demolished and replaced by a plethora of buildings. Whole Foods will move to a new, free-standing store where R&HB once was. The hub area will be replaced by an 8-story hotel, and an 8-story office or condo building will neighbor. About 65 condo units will replace the existing Whole Foods site.
The developer’s site for Waverly recently was pulled, however, due to a reorganization of the Zapolski & Rudd company. According to the website,”Mr. Rudd and his team will focus on management of, and investment in, assets primarily located in California under the name of Rudd Properties, LLC, while Mr. Zapolski and his team will focus primarily on assets located in North Carolina under the name of Zapolski Real Estate, LLC.” Rudd’s website shows that they still own two outparcels at Waverly: buildings housing Bank of America and Chick-Fil-A.
Why is this interesting? The western-based company is Rudd Properties…as in Leslie Rudd…as in, the owner of Dean & DeLuca. It’s been hypothesized that if D&D were going to enter the Triangle market, that Waverly would be a logical place given that Rudd had a direct interest in the center. He still may be a chief investor, though, so it wouldn’t be out of the question once Dean & DeLuca decides to get in the growing mood. Current sites were selected based strongly on Rudd’s background, backyard, best friends, and family. (so don’t let any Charlotte people con you into believing that Charlotte was some superior site when D&D looked outside of America’s major markets. It had everything to do with where Rudd wanted to go and write it off). The Waverly connection is not “news” per se, but it’s at least a little nugget to keep in your mind as this project progresses toward naming retailers.
Hopefully Dean & DeLuca will get in the growing mood because the Raleigh/Cary market would, without a doubt, support many of their stores, not just one.
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6/17 Note: There is a 3D model of the project posted at Google’s 3D Warehouse by Kimco Realty.
John Entwistle Band Coming to Cary
The John Entwistle Band will play at Cary’ s Booth Amphitheater to play a one-time benefit show. The show of many of The Who’s most popular songs will be held September 20th. The reunited band will be joined by Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult lead guitarist and vocalist), Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple frontman), and Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad lead vocalist and guitarist).
Other major headliners for the show will be announced later, as well as a “popular band with Triangle area roots”.
Proceeds will benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s education outreach program and the John Entwistle Foundation’s program which provides musical instruments and instruction to disadvantaged children.
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