Federation Star - January 2017

An audience of 162 people attended the preview event at the Hilton Naples
with author Kate Siegel and her mom, Kim Friedman. Pictured above are
Kate and Kim with the youngest members of the audience – huge fans of
the author. At right are representatives of U.S. Bank, sponsor of the event.
2 nd Annual
January 5 - March 13, 2017 • Preview Event December 13, 2016
12 Events • 20 Authors • 1 Mom
Presented by
Featured Event
Thursday, January 19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Autobiography
$18 in advance / $25 at the door & mini-concert
Steve Katz – Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years
By a founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood,
Sweat & Tears – a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival
and Woodstock, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison
to Jimi Hendrix – comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned
existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor. It is an
honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight
– a privileged vantage point that earned Steve Katz a bit more
objectivity and earnest outrage than many of his colleagues, who
were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set
during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated
venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international
tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock
star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the
cool kids’ table and score the hot chicks.
Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood,
Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock
renegade Lou Reed, among others. These days, Katz and his wife,
Alison Palmer, run a ceramics shop in South Kent, Connecticut.
Preview Event
Tuesday, December 13, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Topic: Relationships
Author Kate Siegel with her mom, Kim Friedman – Mother, Can You Not?