Wednesday Night - July 30 there will be a book launch party for "Local Heroes: The Asbury Park Music Scene".
Doors open at 5 pm. Tickets are $15.00 at the door. The schedule:
- 7 pm introduction by the authors
- 7:30 pm the music begins with:
- Lance Larson, Matt O'Reef Band, Days Awake, Vini Lopez and the Steel Mill Band, Sonny Kenn.
As the night rolls on, there will be jam session with all the musicians and whomever else jumps in. This will no doubt be an interesting night at the Wonder Bar and in Asbury Park.
Don't miss it.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Jersey Shore Roller Girls - July 12
Asbury Park -
The Jersey Shore Roller Girls will offer up some roller derby mayhem in a full-length bout Saturday July 12 at Asbury Park's Convention Hall.
Two of the league's teams will battle, as local women from the Right Coast Rollers defend their undefeated status against the Anchor Assasins, a team making its incredible, can't-miss roller derby debut skating that evening.
In addition to a night of fierce jams and blocks, the event features a performance by the band Wicker Hollow.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased in advance at www.jerseyshoreroll ergirls.net for $15, as well as at the door for $20. Children under 12 get in free.
Adults 21 and over to drink.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 12, with the whistle blowing at 8 p.m.
For more information, please visit www.jerseyshorerollergirls.net
The Jersey Shore Roller Girls will offer up some roller derby mayhem in a full-length bout Saturday July 12 at Asbury Park's Convention Hall.
Two of the league's teams will battle, as local women from the Right Coast Rollers defend their undefeated status against the Anchor Assasins, a team making its incredible, can't-miss roller derby debut skating that evening.
In addition to a night of fierce jams and blocks, the event features a performance by the band Wicker Hollow.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased in advance at www.jerseyshoreroll ergirls.net for $15, as well as at the door for $20. Children under 12 get in free.
Adults 21 and over to drink.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 12, with the whistle blowing at 8 p.m.
For more information, please visit www.jerseyshorerollergirls.net
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
PHOTO EXHIBITION - John Cavanaugh announces Rocktography
July 2, 2008 - NEW PHOTO EXHIBITION IN ASBURY PARK!
Concert photographer John Cavanaugh announces Rocktography, a new photo exhibition featuring a vast sampling of Cavanaugh’s concert photography from the past 18 years accompanied by The Asbury Park Music Storytellers Series highlighting some of the community's most prominent independent singer/songwriters.
Named for Cavanaugh’s online gallery, Rocktography.info, the exhibition will run from July 3rd through September 2008 on the Asbury Park Boardwalk at Asbury Galleria, 1000 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Rocktography Photo Exhibit Asbury Galleria, 1000 Ocean Ave.Asbury Park Boardwalk
Grand Opening July 3, 2008 - 10am until close.
Southside Johnny to appear July 3 at 3 pm.
Concert photographer John Cavanaugh announces Rocktography, a new photo exhibition featuring a vast sampling of Cavanaugh’s concert photography from the past 18 years accompanied by The Asbury Park Music Storytellers Series highlighting some of the community's most prominent independent singer/songwriters.
Named for Cavanaugh’s online gallery, Rocktography.info, the exhibition will run from July 3rd through September 2008 on the Asbury Park Boardwalk at Asbury Galleria, 1000 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Rocktography Photo Exhibit Asbury Galleria, 1000 Ocean Ave.Asbury Park Boardwalk
Grand Opening July 3, 2008 - 10am until close.
Southside Johnny to appear July 3 at 3 pm.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Madam Marie Dies.
July 1, 2008 - (as reported in the Asbury Park Press along with our own memories) - It was one line from a Bruce Springsteen song that made the boardwalk fortune teller world famous.
And now, "Madam Marie'' has passed away.
Marie Castello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally Castello said today.
Family members were attending morning services today, Castello said.
The psychic reader and advisor was 93. She became known worldwide from Bruce Springsteen's homage to her in his music."Did you hear the cops finally busted Madam Marie,'' Springsteen sang in his 1973 song, "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)'' "for tellin' fortunes better than they do."
"That was just the Boss,'' said Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Jim Bruno. "She was never arrested. But Springsteen turned her into an icon.''Bruno remembers his own run-in with the psychic."I was a 12-year-old kid,'' he said. "And I don't remember what I was doing, but I remember her chasing me away from her shack.
Her death is a real loss.''It was also somewhat unexpected.''She really wasn't sick. She just wasn't feeling well,'' Castello said. ""She was very, very strong until the day she died.''Madam Marie bragged that she had told the fortunes of everyone from Judy Garland to Springsteen himself. Legend has it that she told Springsteen he was going to be a success. Springsteen later joked that she told all the musicians that.
And Springsteen never forgot Madam Marie."He always comes by to say hello," she told Press columnist Bill Handleman in May. "He knows where he came from."
Marie Castello closed down her regular operations on the boardwalk in the mid-1990s after a dropoff in business. She continued telling fortunes in Ocean Township.
But Sally Castello is one of the family members who still does readings at the Madam Marie booth not far from Convention Hall on the boardwalk."The booth will always be there," Marie Castello said in May. "The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia, they'll never tear it down."
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Back in the late 70's, we could never get her picture. We tried. Her daughter or grandkids would come over for the TAB w/lemon. If there was no one on the boardwalk then, it would be us.
A true boardwalk classic.
"The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia, they'll never tear it down."
Let's hope that this prediction holds true,
And now, "Madam Marie'' has passed away.
Marie Castello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally Castello said today.
Family members were attending morning services today, Castello said.
The psychic reader and advisor was 93. She became known worldwide from Bruce Springsteen's homage to her in his music."Did you hear the cops finally busted Madam Marie,'' Springsteen sang in his 1973 song, "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)'' "for tellin' fortunes better than they do."
"That was just the Boss,'' said Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Jim Bruno. "She was never arrested. But Springsteen turned her into an icon.''Bruno remembers his own run-in with the psychic."I was a 12-year-old kid,'' he said. "And I don't remember what I was doing, but I remember her chasing me away from her shack.
Her death is a real loss.''It was also somewhat unexpected.''She really wasn't sick. She just wasn't feeling well,'' Castello said. ""She was very, very strong until the day she died.''Madam Marie bragged that she had told the fortunes of everyone from Judy Garland to Springsteen himself. Legend has it that she told Springsteen he was going to be a success. Springsteen later joked that she told all the musicians that.
And Springsteen never forgot Madam Marie."He always comes by to say hello," she told Press columnist Bill Handleman in May. "He knows where he came from."
Marie Castello closed down her regular operations on the boardwalk in the mid-1990s after a dropoff in business. She continued telling fortunes in Ocean Township.
But Sally Castello is one of the family members who still does readings at the Madam Marie booth not far from Convention Hall on the boardwalk."The booth will always be there," Marie Castello said in May. "The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia, they'll never tear it down."
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Back in the late 70's, we could never get her picture. We tried. Her daughter or grandkids would come over for the TAB w/lemon. If there was no one on the boardwalk then, it would be us.
A true boardwalk classic.
"The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia, they'll never tear it down."
Let's hope that this prediction holds true,
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