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Annual Milford Oyster Festival® 
Main Stage Entertainment
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sponsored by:


Porter & Chester Institute

Performance Schedule on the Main Stage at Fowler Field
(times approximate) for Saturday, August 21, 2010


11:30am ---- Mike Falzone & the Peppermint Trick
12:30pm ---- The  Bernadettes
  2:00pm ---- Crazy on You
  3:30pm ---- Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum
It's a crazy mixed up world out there,
Someone's always got a gun and it's all about money
You live with loneliness, or you live with somebody who's crazy
It's just a crazy mixed up world ..."
Soul Asylum

Renewed and revitalized, Soul Asylum founders Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy return to rock’s front line with THE SILVER LINING, their first new studio release since 1998’s Candy From a Stranger. That album inadvertently kicked off a seven-year sabbatical for the group, which telescoped into the death of bassist Karl Mueller in June 2005, the other founding member of the triumvirate that has steered Soul Asylum through rock’s white water for the past two decades plus.
The re-emergence of the group on THE SILVER LINING is as much a reaffirmation of Soul Asylum’s commitment to the music as it is a dedication to Karl, who worked and played on the album right up until the end. They were joined in the studio by not-so-new heavyweight Minneapolis drummer Michael Bland (who has played with everyone from Paul Westerberg to Prince). The band is now complemented by Tommy Stinson on bass, a member of fellow Twin Cities band the Replacements since age 13, and a pal of Dan’s since he was in high school and Tommy in junior high. Tommy was the only friend that Karl could endorse to replace himself in the band. This hard-driving lineup was introduced for the first time in October 2005, when they played sold-out showcase dates at First Avenue in Minneapolis and the Bowery Ballroom in New York – within three days.
THE SILVER LINING, Soul Asylum’s ninth full-length album (there were several EPs and cassette-only releases back in the indie ’80s) is every bit as quirky and off-centered cut-to-the-bone rock as their hardcore fans have come to expect, an indication that the Minneapolis -bred band has lost none of its edge. And why should they? “We weren’t Mouseketeers,” Dave says, “we never had any sort of showbiz advice that was useful to us. Everything that we’ve done has been relatively homespun and we’ve had to do it all by ourselves and we never got a lot of fake support or showbiz chops or anything like that.”
Soul Asylum’s paradigm – as the prime number opposite of whatever a showbiz rock band is in the ’00s – is unavoidable throughout THE SILVER LINING, as Dave Pirner’s lyrics ruminate on the absurdity of stardom in “Success Is Not So Sweet” and rip into the precarious nature of sanity in an insane world in “Oxygen.”
But Soul Asylum is a band of story-tellers in the Midwestern tradition, and the new album also digs deep into interpersonal relationships (“Crazy Mixed Up World,” “Lately”), the fabric of peaceful co-existence (“Good For You”), and even a couple of songs that are redolent of New Orleans, Dave’s second home-away-from-home for the past few years (“Standing Water,” “Bus Named Desire”). The downtown punk rock vibe crashes through on several cuts (“All Is Well,” “Whatcha Need”). The new album was recorded at Flyte Time and the Terrarium Studios in Minneapolis, co-produced by Soul Asylum with Grammy Award-winning engineer-turned-producer Steve Hodge (on various tracks), and with John Field (on various tracks).  Read More
Soul Asylum

Crazy On You
'Heart tribute band'
Hailing from the northeast, "Crazy On You" will take you on a musical journey as seen through the eyes of Heart. From the 70's rock songs, "Barracuda" and "Magic Man"' through the 80's and 90's with power ballads such as "Alone" and "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You", "Crazy On You" does it with style and class, and will satisfy even the most die hard Heart fans. A true tribute to a truly remarkable act, an act that tore down walls and did what they believed in, and still believe in today.

Crazy On You
Crazy On You
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To visit their site directly use this link --   Crazy On You

The Bernadettes
Those who have seen the band perform live in their latest incarnation might be surprised to know that the Bernadettes started out in the early 1990s as a traditional-style blues band, covering songs by the likes of John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, as well as later bluesmen like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. But the band soon began experimenting with their own unique versions of R&B classics from James Brown, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and their contemporaries. This evolved further with the addition of classic Motown hits, contemporary funk, soul, and R&B flavored rock songs to their large and varied, dance-oriented song list. The resulting mix has become the staple of the band's offering to live audiences. 
The Burnadettes
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Continuous appearances at a variety of venues have established the Bernadettes as one of the area's premier live acts. They were voted the best rhythm and blues band in the New Haven Advocate "Sounds of New Haven" 1996 readers poll, and also chosen by that paper as New Haven's #1 bar band. A constantly growing songlist, matched with the band's frenetic brand of soul, make for a memorable evening for anyone who wants to move their feet and dance to the beat.

To visit their site directly use this link --   The Bernadettes

 
Mike Falzone & the Peppermint Trick

 
Mike Falzone & the Peppermint Trick

To visit their site directly use this link -- Mike Falzone

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