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John Miles
of Newport sings the song 'Mustang Sally' with the live
karaoke band Maxxtone Thursday night at Newport Blues
Cafe. (Jacqueline Marque/Daily News staff) |
Sing with the Band
at Newport Blues Cafe
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
September 20, 2008
NEWPORT —
Are you one of those kids who sang in front of the
mirror, a hairbrush as microphone, imagining yourself as
Mick Jagger, Robert Plant or Gwen Stefani, with the
surge of a hardrocking band behind you?
Those
youthful fantasies offer a touch of reality when
Maxxtone is in town.
Maxxtone
is a four-piece band from Springfield, Mass., that
provides the music for aspiring karaoke singers. Taking
up residence most Thursday nights at the Newport Blues
Café, Maxxtone can play about 400 tunes, ranging from
punk (Ramones) to classic rock (Beatles), country (Keith
Urban), hair bands (Motley Crue) and even disco (Gloria
Gaynor).......
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The Neville Brothers from New
Orleans perform
Tuesday at The Newport Blues Cafe.
(David
Hansen/Daily News staff) |
Neville Brothers
have it covered at Blues Cafe
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
August 6, 2008
NEWPORT —
The Neville Brothers took the Newport Blues Cafe stage
Tuesday night and never let up for an hour and 45
minutes.
The tiny
club holds 355 people, and they packed the house,
getting up close and personal with one of America’s
great bands. Countless people were turned away at the
door — the show sold out on Monday — and a few danced on
the sidewalk anyway.
The
Nevilles — Aaron, Art, Cyril and Charles — essentially
are the country’s greatest cover band......
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Three Cowsill
siblings hit the road
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
July 22, 2008
NEWPORT — More than 40 years since
their heyday, The Cowsills are more in demand than
they’ve been in years.
The group — minus brothers John
and Richard — plays the Newport Blues Cafe on Thursday
night, kicking off a small tour that includes gigs in
Boston and New York City.
“There are all these venues, these
festivals and casinos that are looking for bands,” Bob
Cowsill said by phone this week. “We’d be crazy not to
take advantage of it. We’re finding that people like
good songs, good singing and good performances.”........
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Blues men Johnny Winter, right,
and James
Montgomery share the stage
Wednesday night at
the Newport Blues Cafe. (T.J.
Kirkpatrick/Daily News staff) |
Winter can still
turn up the heat
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
July 20, 2006
NEWPORT -
Johnny
Winter still kicks up a storm.
Offstage, he looks a bit
frail, until he plugs in his
guitar. Then, the fireworks start.
Winter played the Newport Blues
Cafe - which is bringing in name acts this
summer - Wednesday night before a
packed house of more than 200. In his
1970s heyday, Winter traded fierce
guitar licks with Rick Derringer.
These days, his sidekick is blues
harp player/singer James Montgomery, the local lad who's
toured with Winter for four years. Like B.B. King,
Winter plays sitting down these days. But if you're
tempted to call him "Old Man Winter," listen to his
blistering take on Freddie King's "Hideway" first....
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Rachel Dratch performs
with the Upright Citizens
Brigade on Wednesday
at the Newport Blues
Cafe. (T.J.
Kirkpatrick, Daily News staff)
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Something Downright
Funny at the Film Festival
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
June 16, 2006
NEWPORT - If it's film
festival season, there's a good chance Rachel Dratch is in
town.
For four out of the
past five years, Dratch has starred with the Upright
Citizens Brigade in nights of improvisation as part of the
Newport International Film Festival.
With "Saturday Night
Live" on hiatus, Dratch and co-star Horatio Sanz took to the
stage at the Newport Blues Cafe before a full house
Wednesday and Thursday nights, working on the fly.
For Dratch, who grew up
in Lexington, Mass., Newport is a built-in early summer
vacation.......
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Film Festival
Honors Actor Brian Dennehy
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
June 10, 2006
NEWPORT - Give an actor
an award at a film festival, and he speaks eloquently about
the thrill of the theater.
The Newport
International Film Festival honored Brian Dennehy at the
Newport Blues Cafe Friday night with the Claiborne Pell
Award for Lifetime Achievement. The 67-year-old actor
touched on his film career but expounded on his love of the
theater, considering himself more a stage actor at this
point......
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From left,
Paul Childs, Paula Forger, Yvonne Childs and Erne Campe,
all of Boston, sing along with Abbey Rhode during the
band's show last month at Newport Blues Cafe. (David
Hansen/Daily News Photo) |
Love of The Beatles
bands them together
By James J. Gillis/Daily News staff
May 24, 2004
NEWPORT - Abbey
Rhode is not Beatlemania - no collarless white shirts,
no shiny Sgt. Pepper suits. "We're people who happen to
love The Beatles and want to play their music as well as
we can," said guitarist John Flanders of Portsmouth.
"We're not a tribute band." The four members of Abbey
Rhode are Flanders, Kevin Sullivan, Ray Davis and Paddy
Higgins. Each has logged decades playing in bands, and
all are older than 50.
So why do
they feel re-energized in this new band?........
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