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No one can dispute the fact that Billy Rice and Greg Poulos have been performing for many years and have played with some of the best musicians from around the world. Check out Vicky Sullivan’s article about Greg in The Sarasota Post and you will get a great in-site about Greg’s career. Over the years, Greg has performed with the best of the best!
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Review by Vicky Sullivan for The Sarasota Post. It was fate that Adam Lambert auditioned for American Idol with the Queen masterpiece “Bohemian Rhapsody” and then that Queen played the Idol finale with Adam. It sparked Queen’s Brian May to think about Adam as a possible lead singer for Queen.
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Saturday night was very special. I was having dinner with 3 of my pals, Vicky Sullivan, Lee Volpe, and Melissa Weaver at Primo Ristorante. We were going to see Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota!
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Selwyn Birchwood is the headliner for the 3rd Annual Suncoast Blues Festival on January 27 & 28. Here is Vicky Sullivan’s interview with Selwyn!
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Betty Fox and her band put on quite a show last night at Ace’s Live in Bradenton, FL. Before the show, Laura Adams, Vicky Sullivan and I had a chance to do a video interview with Ms. Fox upstairs at the venue. We brought our special friend along, Hope Yencho who had never seen Betty before!
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On Tuesday night, I went to the Mets-Yankees Spring Training Game at George Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. I am a diehard NY Mets fan, and my pal Vicky Sullivan loves the NY Yankees. Why I would go to a game with a Yankee fan is a hard question to answer. Yankee fans are a strange breed. Met fans are the best!
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Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall recently held a special private event for their members with iconic rock photographer Henry Diltz, titled “Behind the Lens.” His photos document rock music history of the ’60s and ’70s. He was the official Woodstock photographer, responsible for the iconic images of Jimi Hendrix playing the Star-Spangled Banner to the crowd […]
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I made the trip to NYC on March 20th to see the Mayhem Ball at Madison Square Garden — I couldn’t make the Miami shows in 2025 when the tour started, and with the tour coming to an end on April 13th, I knew seeing it at the Garden would be special. And it was. […]
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Six-time Grammy winning producer & musician Don Was and his band came to Sarasota to jam and did they ever! Performing for a private audience of members of Whiteleaf, at the Venue @ LEC, it was an amazing evening of music and socializing for music lovers of Sarasota. Whiteleaf is the brainchild of Barry Weisblatt, […]
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Singer/songwriter and rocker John Waite is back on the road! Starting out in Florida, Waite fans filled the Cap with a sold-out show in anticipation of the musician who has been on the music scene since 1975 with his band, The Babys. After that, he went solo and had the massive, international hit “Missing You.” […]
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It was a Sunday night at the new Encore Live, but you wouldn’t know it by the crowd that came out to see one of rock’s greatest bass players Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith and his new band, “Close Enemies.” Not only was there rock royalty on the stage, but there were some in the house […]