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Brevard Live<br />
May 19-21<br />
New Smyrna Beach<br />
NSB Jazz Festival<br />
The 21st New Smyrna Beach Jazz<br />
Festival takes place May 19th to<br />
21st, 2023. The event opens with a<br />
free concert featuring the New Smyrna<br />
Beach Middle and High School Jazz<br />
Bands and The Ray Guiser Quartet at<br />
The Brannon Center, 105 S. Riverside<br />
Dr. from 5:30 to 7:30pm.<br />
This year’s line-up will feature<br />
Space Coast favorites Tony Wynn and<br />
Cameron G. Brown Duo and Tony’s<br />
TW6 band. TW6 is the brainchild of<br />
Saxophonist Tony Wynn. The Sextet<br />
was formed for the purpose of melding<br />
young talent with seasoned musicians<br />
Wynn, Brown and Guitarist Walt<br />
Stacey with new young fresh talent<br />
such as keyboardist Daniel Tenbusch,<br />
bassist Zachary Green and drummer<br />
Ashton Gould. TW6 attempts to revisit<br />
the Jazz Classics as well as some R&B<br />
favorites by repackaging them with<br />
a new fresh spirit and feel!<br />
Appearing on Flagler Avenue<br />
on Saturday will be Cigano Swing<br />
for the first time, Sybil Gage and her<br />
Merry Band of Catahoulas are back,<br />
and Rich Walker coming again from<br />
Portland, OR and will have his Septet<br />
with him. Other performers are<br />
The Jeff Rupert Quartet, The James<br />
Hall Trio, Ray Guiser Quartet, Thom<br />
Chambers Band, Daniel “The Saxman”<br />
Fuqua, Packrat’s Smokehouse<br />
Blues and many more. The finale on<br />
Sunday, May 21st from noon to 3pm<br />
will be The Slide Show, a tribute to JJ<br />
Johnson and Kai Winding with special<br />
guest Linda Cole. That show is $ 15.<br />
Prior to the Sunday finale are several<br />
Jazz brunches with music.<br />
This year’s art work was done by<br />
local artist Cathy Berse. T-shirts, posters,<br />
hats and visors will be sold at at<br />
Janie’s Boutique, 307 Flagler Avenue<br />
# 102 and Julie’s at 231 Canal St<br />
Downtown. For lodging information:<br />
800-541-9621.<br />
All weekend long during the NSB<br />
Jazz Festival there are over 20 shows<br />
featuring many styles of live jazz with<br />
FREE admission at all but one concert.<br />
Event promoter Marc Monteson created<br />
this event to help bring traffic to<br />
local businesses. For the complete list<br />
of entertainers, venues and times, go<br />
to www.nsbjazzfest.com.<br />
Saturday, May 27, 8pm<br />
King Center, Melbourne<br />
Brit Floyd<br />
Brit Floyd returns to the stage to<br />
perform a brand-new production<br />
celebrating 50 years of the groundbreaking<br />
and iconic musical masterpiece,<br />
The Dark Side of the Moon. The<br />
show will feature classic tracks from<br />
the album such as Time, Money, Us<br />
and Them and Great Gig in the Sky.<br />
The 21/2 hours plus set list will<br />
also include other highlights from Pink<br />
Floyd’s magnificent catalogue of albums,<br />
including tracks from The Wall,<br />
Wish You Were Here, Animals, The<br />
Division Bell, Medal and much more.<br />
Taking to the stage to perform note<br />
for note renditions of all these classic<br />
Pink Floyd tracks will be the band of<br />
musicians that audiences have become<br />
familiar with worldwide featuring long<br />
time guitarist/vocalist Damian Darlington,<br />
who has played over 2500<br />
Pink Floyd music related concerts. The<br />
band will also feature Ian Cattell, Edo<br />
Scordo, Eva Avila and all the other<br />
expert musicians that have joined Brit<br />
Floyd over the last decade.<br />
10 - Brevard Live May 2023
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