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Sunday 12:10 pm – 1:45 pm | Main Stage
The 2010 Corn Hill Arts Festival is proud to announce Rochester native and jazz musician Gap Mangione and his New Blues Band as this year’s entertainment headliner. Gap has done live performances around the world and has play in venues from New York City’s Blue Note to the Hollywood Bowl. He has performed and recorded with some of the brightest stars in the world of jazz: Chuck Mangione, Larry Carlton, Dizzy Gillespie and Steve Gadd, to name a few. He is a shining star in the Rochester music community.
Gap Mangione and his brother, Chuck, released their first recording as “The Jazz Brothers” on Riverside Records produced by Cannonball Adderley. Gap’s recording history includes seven solo releases and numerous others including ten with Chuck Mangione.
Gap continues to play with his New Blues Band at the Lodge at Woodcliff. His Big Band performs regularly in concerts and at social events. Gap Mangione’s CDs Diana in the Autumn Wind, Planet Gap, Ardis, Stolen Moments and Family Holidays are now in release.
Please visit www.gapmangione.com for more on Gap Mangione, his recordings and performances.
Tinted Image | Saturday 1:25 pm – 2:55 pm | Main Stage
Tinted Image Unplugged | Sunday 10:30 am – 11:30 am | Main Stage
Here is a band that is locally based and is working very hard to make its way up the ladder to the national level. Tinted Image has opened for Little Feat, Average White Band, Trevor Hall, The Subdudes, and Sonny Landreth just to name a few. They have been playing everywhere from New York City to the Mississippi gulf coast. Their name is quickly becoming a household name at festivals and venues across the country. They have just recently released their second recording entitled “Tinted Image The Acoustic Sessions”. This release features Penfield graduate and season six American Idol finalist, Alyssa Coco, as well as Spencerport graduates; Matt Merritt & Joel Vickers.
All three of these young and very talented musicians continue to write their own music and continue to receive overwhelming reviews from the critics for there genuinely unique style of pop and rock music.
Drummer Levi Bennett, the Guitar Center drummer of the year is fluent, gracefully aggressive and in total control of the back line beat for this band. Tinted Image is a young, fresh, and vibrant band that has all the tools to make it to the next level in music.
Please visit www.tinted-image.com to read more on Tinted Image.
Saturday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Gazebo Stage
Here is another locally based youthful and vibrant band that shows great promise and a desire to be bigger and better all of the time. This band blends Blues, Country, and Folk music into an energy based package that is guaranteed to stir the soul. They do a number of their own original songs and also cover such great artists as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline, and Stevie Wonder.
They are fronted by the uniquely talented Teagan Ward. Teagan has a voice that is as articulate as it is powerful. She is a promising young lady who has enormous musical and song writing skills.
Also in this band is classically trained pianist, singer, and song writer Katy Wright. The rest of the group is rounded out with Alferdo Encina on percussions, Jeremy Stoner on bass, Tommy Formicola on steel pedal, and Lou Giglio on lead guitar. This band has just recently returned from a national battle of the bands competition in Austin Texas where they were very well received. We look forward to hearing a lot more from Teagan and the Tweeds in the future.
Please visit teaganandthetweeds.webs.com to read more on Teagan & The Tweeds.
Saturday 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Avery Mall
Jeff Riales was born in Memphis Tennessee and raised in the back woods of Mississippi. He has made his home here in Rochester for over 20 years now. He is the best country and Americana artist that resides in this area. Jeff is an dynamic song writer who has written well over 200 songs & ballads. They paint vivid pictures & tell creative stories of life situations in general as well as his experiences with growing up in the deep south. He is a master of the acoustic guitar. His music is witty, colorful, thoughtful and very interesting.
Jeff has appeared on the WXXI On Stage public television series and has recently opened for John Hiatt and Chris Smithers.
He is currently working on his fifth recording which is due to come out in the fall of 2010.
He was awarded the local 2008 album of the year for his last release entitled “The Ticket”. Mr. Riales will be joined by mandolin/bassist/fiddle master Bruce Diamond who will also perform with Watkins and The Rapiers later in the day. This performance is highly recommended for all country and Americana fans.
Please visit www.myspace.com/jeffriales to read more on Jeff Riales.
Sunday 11:55 am – 1:25 pm | Gazebo Stage
The ever popular and well known Park Avenue Band returns to play Corn Hill for the first time since 1988. If you weren’t at Corn Hill for that show you missed a good one. The place was mobbed and everyone had a really good time. That seems to be the norm for these experienced and well versed musicians. They take rock, roots and reggae and blend it to perfection. They are a fabulously talent band that will surely make Sunday afternoon at the Gazebo stage another great Park Avenue Band jam session and party.
Please visit www.myspace.com/parkaveband to read more on The Park Avenue Band.
Sunday 2:30 pm – 4:00 | Main Stage
The Rochester based Coupe De’Villes have been entertaining audiences with there Chicago style Rhythm & Blues for over 26 years now. They have 10 recordings to there credit & have worked and recorded with former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick Taylor as well as Chuck Mangione. One of there recordings was picked up by Whoopie Goldberg and incorporated into the 1993 version of Comic relief.
This band has opened for many national acts that include Dr. John, B.B. King, and Delbert McClinton just to name a few. The Corn Hill Arts festival is honored to have The Coupes here to perform at this years festival.
Please visit www.coupedevilles.com to read more on the Coupe De’Villes.
Saturday 3:30 pm – 5:00 | Main Stage
Watkins & The Rapiers is one of the most insightful americana & folk bands that this area has to offer. There music is mostly original but from time to time these guys will play tunes from Donovan, Steve Earle, The Troggs, and Roger Miller just to name a few. These seven guys are well versed, very entertaining, and come very highly reccomended by local music critic Jeff Spevak as one of Rochester’s finest bands.
They have been performing on and off since 1996 and they have released three discs. They have appeared on the sorely missed WXXI series “On Stage” with Julia Figueras. They do occasional shows at The Flipside Lounge and at The Little Theatre. They also do a Christmas show every year that has been said to bring a real & different edge to the holiday season.
This performance has all the makings to be one of the most artistic musical acts of the weekend and is highly recommended as a must see show for all true americana and folk music fans.
Please visit www.rapiers.org to read more on Watkins & The Rapiers.
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