Sarasota, FL October 23, 2009 – 107.9 WSRZ and Darby Buick Pontiac GMC present the Funk Monster Mash – WSRZ
Halloween Party brought to you by Michelob Ultra at the Venice Community Center, 326 S. Nokomis Ave. in Venice, on Saturday,
Oct. 31, 2009 from 7:00pm-11:00pm with doors opening at 6:30pm. Live entertainment will be provided by The Funk Monster Band,
plus a costume contest featuring $1,000 in cash prizes. It’s all hosted by 107.9 WSRZ’s Morning Crew, David Jones
and Christina Crane. Tickets are $15.00 and include dinner from Cosimo’s Brick Oven Italian Restaurant. Tickets are
available in advance at the following locations: WSRZ Studios, Darby Buick Pontiac GMC, Cosimo’s Brick Oven Italian
Restaurant and Cosimo’s Too Trattoria & Tavern. For complete information and to purchase tickets online go to WSRZ.com.
The 107.9 WSRZ Halloween Party: The Funk Monster Mash will cast a spell over the Venice Community Center on Saturday, October
31st from 7:00pm-11:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm. The Funk Monster Band will be howlin’ all night long to keep the zombies
dancing and for all the ghouls and goblins there will be a $1,000 costume contest. Tickets are $15.00 and include dinner from
Cosimo’s Brick Oven Italian Restaurant. For complete info go to WSRZ.com
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THE KING AND QUEEN OF ROCK AND ROLL, THE GOD FATHER OF SOUL, QUEEN OF SOUL, WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT PATSY CLINE, ALWAY'S
ON MY MIND WILLIE AND BETTE MIDLER'S SALUTE TO THE TROOPS - BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY AND MUCH MORE. . . . .
A HUGE SUCCESS WHAT A NIGHT
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FORD MOTOR CORPORATION PARTY
Anthony Dillard - Stole the show and kept the dance floor full at The Ford Motor Company's
Corp Party May 3rd at Sea World's-Renaissance Hotel, in Orlando. It was an awesome event to behold as he kept the audience
in awe playing Motown's favorite hits, with renditions of Just My Imagination, I'll Be There and Let's Stay Together, teaming
up with the powerful horns of "Late Nite Brass" Kip Cline Sax, Tom Sousa trombone and Brent Booher on trumpet and fugle horn
made the evening an extra sweet treat. A highlight of the evening was when Kip and Anthony traded licks on
their Saxes. They put on a solo stint that left the audience standing in amazement. It was a downright powerful show
of talent and was so full of excitement. There were some serious, mean riffs and tricky melodic licks being tossed back
and forth. It was a rare moment to witness. They had all their sexy, saxie chops together, belting out some "Monestrous"
dynamic music notes. It was nothing but spectacular. . . .
Velvet's performance of (At Last) by Etta James, really set the mood for all the romantic couples
who needed to unwind after all that Rump, Bump and Funk.
Anthony hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area was such a thrill to see perform say's,
"I'll be Back" for sure.
PRESS RELEASE
The “Funk Monster Band” out of TampaFlorida will be gettin’ down Saturday night
April 26th2008, for The 21stAnnual Rainbow Ball being held at the Red Rose Ball room in Plant City
to benefit the Child Abuse Council.The
“Funkateers” will be transporting their
guests back to a simpler time and converting them into participants instead of spectators. The onstage energy of Funk Monster
Band will ignite an event of which will become a shared experience for all. Make
no mistake this show is going to excite their audience and is guaranteed to keep them on the dance floor all night long! Come on out and you can also be a participant
witnessing the most popular hits of the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. The awesome horns of Late Night Brass will join
the Funk Monsters blasting you into frenzy with the most riveting tunes out of the Motown era. The Monsters won’t stop
delivering those “Funkadelical Vibrations” because there will be a hurricane of activity from them staring the
talented vocals and show of impersonator Velvet Alexander, as (Almost Tina) Recreating The Look... The Moves... The
Sounds... The Excitement... of Today's Tina Turner!Next comes FMB’S own Lead Vocals, Ms Syreeda Bivins doing her renditions of Aretha
Franklin and Patty LeBelle, but that’s not all there will be a special guest hailing from The San Francisco Bay Area
out of Oaktown, know as (Dr. Funkenstein)Mr. Anthony Dillard. He will be jammin'
to an array of Funk, R&B, and Motown hits by the Temptations, Earth Wind and Fire, and Kool and The Gang performing the
most non-forgottentimeless melodies
you ever heard. In a nutshell it’s supergroovalisticprosifunkstica-tion April 26 at the Red Rose Ball Room.Don’t miss this spectacular show it will be a night to remember. R.S.V.P.$125.00 For more information please contact Shannon Sellards (813) 673 4646, Ext. 225.
Child Abuse Council
21st Annual Rainbow Ball April 26, 2008 Red Rose Ball Room Plant City
Tina Turner wows Grammy crowd with comeback
By Dean Goodman,
Reuters
Posted: 2008-02-11 03:38:30
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tina Turner took a break from retirement in Europe to perform a duet with
R&B singer Beyonce at the Grammy Awards Sunday, the soul legend's first concert performance in more than seven years.
As
a bonus, she picked up a Grammy Award as a participant on jazz icon Herbie Hancock's surprise album of the year winner "River:
The Joni Letters."
Turner, a sprightly 68, and 26-year-old Beyonce got the crowd on their feet with a lively version
of "Proud Mary," for which Turner won a Grammy in 1972. Among the fans tapping their feet were veteran rocker John Fogerty,
who wrote the song.
By the end, Beyonce looked exhausted, but Turner seemed ready for more.
Sporting a skin-tight
silver bustier and matching capri pants, Turner warmed up for the duet with a medley of "What's Love Got To Do With It" and
"Better Be Good To Me."
She stopped touring in 2000, saying she did not want to get to the point where her stage antics
were no longer dignified.
She resumed her comfortable life in Europe, shuttling between homes in Zurich and the south
of France with her German-born boyfriend Erwin Bach. Apart from some promotion in 2005 for a greatest hits album and an appearance
later that year at the Kennedy Center Honors, she has kept a low profile.
Turner's career haul now stands at eight
Grammys -- all but one following one of the greatest comebacks in music history. After enjoying huge success in the late 1960s
and early 1970s performing in a soul revue with her abusive husband, Ike Turner, the diva was destitute by 1976.
In
1981, she emerged from obscurity to land a few opening slots on the North American tour of the Rolling Stones, a combo that
had idolized her and toured with her in the 1960s. By 1984, she was on top of the world again with the album "Private Dancer,"
which yielded five hit singles and three Grammys.
Her subsequent albums sold well, although she was always much bigger
in Europe, where she was one of the handful of acts who could sell out big football stadiums. She bade farewell to her fans
with a 100-plus date world tour that ended in California in December 2000.
Ike Turner, with whom she shared the Grammy
for "Proud Mary," died of a cocaine overdose in December. Tina Turner said at the time she had not had any contact with the
R&B pioneer in over 30 years.
