BRUCE HAS TWO ORIGINAL SONGS ON THE INTERNATIONAL RELEASE "SONGS FROM STEEL BRIDGE VOL.1" CD. OTHER ARTISTS INCLUDE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER JACKSON BROWNE AND LEGENDARY MUSICIAN/PERFORMER pat mAcdonald.
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I'd like to meet:
Sage Steele, Resa, Tiffany, Josh Garey, Jill Wagner, Ulli in Hamburg, Stan Ridgway, Vanessa Williams, Gail Fischer
Music:
pat mAcdonald, Jeremy Reaves, Josh Garey, HILLBILLY CREEPS, Chris Aaron. Any myspace artist friend who will at least give me a tiny bit of their time and respect.
Steel Bridge SongFest '08 Builds Bridges of Creativitywhile Benefiting a Historic Drawbridge
The Steel Bridge SongFest enters its fourth season, June 12 to 14, of bringing together musicians, songwriters, historic preservationists and music fans. The annual benefit for the Michigan Street Bridge has helped to raise almost $150,000 to save and maintain the bridge, and to build community awareness of the importance of preserving it.
www.SteelBridgeSongfest.org - Official SBSF Site
This year’s festival will once again feature singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, musician/singer Jane Wiedlin of The Go’s-Go’s, and co-founder and musician pat mAcdonald. mAcdonald also will once again host The Construction Zone, a week-long workshop for 25 invited songwriters. With headquarters at the Holiday Music Motel at the approach to the bridge, the songwriters will find their collaborative partners with a rousing game of Spin the Bottle. The songwriters will perform at various venues around town during the week and record their original songs for possible inclusion on a CD. In past years some 120 songs have been recorded as a result of The Construction Zone. One CD is complete and on the market and another is in production.
Christie Weber, the other co-founder of the festival and president of Citizens for our Bridge, has been a tireless crusader for the preservation and enhancement of the bridge. The two-lane structure spans the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in the central business district of Sturgeon Bay. Built in 1930, it is only one of two bridges of its type in the United States—an upper rolling lift bascule bridge. The 1,420-foot bridge is comprised of a counter-balanced, movable span and 12 concrete and steel truss approach spans. The bridge, a familiar sight for Door County vacationers and locals, is listed on the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places and recently was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
With the bridge as its beneficiary, the songfest has developed into much more than a concert. It celebrates live music, activism, historic preservation and creativity. More than 100 bands from across the country donate their services to help raise money and awareness for the bridge. Components of the event include:
• Take It To The Bridge. An all-day, benefit concert headlined by Jackson Browne on Saturday, June 14, at the Great Lakes Yacht Services boatyard. Jane Wiedlin of Go-Go’s fame will also appear.
• Take It Inside. Three nights of live original music will be featured in multiple venues around town, including all-ages shows.
• The Construction Zone. This component brings original songwriting into the festival mix. Twenty-five songwriters are invited for five days of intensive collaborative songwriting at the historic Holiday Music Motel. Writers are encouraged to write songs loosely based around the metaphor of a steel bridge. (The Construction Zone is for invited musical guests only.) A group of people associated with the SongFest recently purchased the motel to preserve it and form a year-round headquarters for songwriting workshops. Songwriters can expect comfortable, sound-proof rooms with the original 1950 bedroom suites in pristine condition. Some rooms have been custom-designed by music legends such as Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s fame. The motel is located in the heart of the Sturgeon Bay Historic District within walking distance of restaurants, bars, art museums, the ship chanel, and historic sites including the Sturgeon Bay Bridge. Environmentalists will rest comfortably knowing that the hotel is a LEED-certified structure.
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www.SteelBridgeSongfest.org - Official SBSF Site
Movies:
The Lost Weekend, Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Naked Gun, Caddy Shack, all the Vacation movies, Animal House, Used Cars, Spinal Tap....anything that is shallow and really funny.
Television:
Anything with Sage Steele, SportsCenter, Pardon The Interruption, Around The Horn, Trailer Park Boys, Follow That Food, Divine Design
Books:
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
Heroes:
pat mAcdonald. The rest are dead or appear so. pAt almost died too, except I saved his life.
