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State: Florida
Country: US

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Saturday, April 25, 2009 

Category: Music
Judging from every MC and radio host we've ever met, people have trouble with remembering the name Blue Island Beer Club. Why on earth did we call ourselves that?

We love playing the blues, it's true. We love it on the islands, as a certain BIBC song declares.  And we discovered early in our friendship that a certain fermented beverage lent a relaxed mood to practice sessions. (BIBC recommendations are available upon request.)

What few people know, however, is that Bruce grew up near the battered little Chicago suburb of Blue Island, and years later Colin's work brought him to that neighborhood. So most of the names we tossed back and forth started with "Blue Island". Here are a few of the names we decided against:

Babe Magnets

Blue Cayenne

Blue Horizon

Blue Island Backwater

Blue Island Bake-Off

Blue Island Ball

Blue Island Balladeers

Blue Island Bambinos

Blue Island Bandana

Blue Island Bards

Blue Island Battery

Blue Island Bay

Blue Island Beach

Blue Island Beach Bums

Blue Island Blast

Blue Island Blend

Blue Island Blizzard

Blue Island Blues

Blue Island Boys

Blue Island Breeze

Blue Island Breeze

Blue Island Minds

Blue Island Brotherhood

Blue Island Bucks

Blue Island Byway

Blue Island Cyclone

Blue Island Deluxe

Blue Island Deville

Blue Island Eclipse

Blue Island Expedition

Blue Island Expressway

Blue Island Freeway

Blue Island Harbor

Blue Island Highway

Blue Island League

Blue Island Mindset

Blue Island Mustard

Blue Island Oasis

Blue Island Palm Tree

Blue Island Pickers

Blue Island Road

Blue Island Squall Line

Blue Island String Section

Blue Island Surf

Blue Island Time

Blue Island Vibe

Blue Island Voyage

Blue Island Zone

Blue Mustard

Blue Spruce

Blues Lagoon

Blues Thyme

Bravo Charlie

Colin and Bruce

Island Blue

Island Rhymes

Kilo Whiskey

Kula-Ward

Kula-Ward Alliance

Kula-Ward Company

Kula-Ward Cyclone

Kula-Ward Expedition

Kula-Ward Front

Kula-Ward Induction Effect

Kula-Ward Outbreak

Kula-Ward Outburst

Kula-Ward Revisited

Kula-Ward Revival

Ladykillers

Lone Palm

Magnetic Pickups

Outta the Blues

Snakebirds

Tropicbirds

Two Jamokes with Guitars


Did we pick the wrong one? Cynthia says so. Write to us and let us know. 

Or to ask about beers we like.

3:15 PM 
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 
Our friend Kevin Thomas is presently undergoing rehabilitation
following a nasty stroke. Kevin's many friends in the music scene are
getting together to play a benefit concert on his behalf at the
Ringside Cafe in St. Petersburg. The Blue Island Beer Club will be on
stage at 3:30pm on Sunday, March 8 to perform a 30 minute set. There
will be lots of good music throughout the day and we hope you will come
and see us and the others and help out Kevin. Here is the full schedule:

BENEFIT FOR KEVIN THOMAS
RINGSIDE SUNDAY MARCH 8TH
12 noon to 9 pm
$10 donation
Kevin
has been hospitalized for more then three weeks . Bills are piling up.
We can all help!! We need everybody to get as many people to this event
and contribute.


12:00 PM Introduction jam with Jay Kiernan,
Meyer Baron, Jerry Jakala, Scotty Rexroat and Steve Arvey perform New
songs "Friends", Guns of Navarone and Pole Dancer.

12:30 PM Mike Jurgenson
1:00 PM John Kelly
1:30 Key of Life
2:00 PM Kevin Holloway, Dennis Wallace, Steve Hagood and John Richard
2:30 Jak Kelly
3:00 PM The Richard Mastry Band
3:30 PM Blue Island Beer Club
4:00 PM Gail Trippsmith
4:30 PM Jim Mason and Al Alvarez
5:00 PM Ronny Elliot
5:30 PM Gladys and Mitch
6:00 PM Leigh and Steve Humes
6:30 Shannon Lolligirl (Kevins Daughter)
7:00 PM Pete Gallager & Pat Barmore & Raiford Starke
7:30 PM The Chicken Chasers
8:00 PM Kirk Adams and Friends
8:30 PM Damon Fowler, Sarasota Slim, Steve Arvey, Jay Kiernan
Blues Blowout
Ringside is located at 2742 4th St N Saint Petersburg, FL 33704


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Saturday, February 07, 2009 

The Blue Island Beer Club is off to the JPF Showcase on Sunday
afternoon. We will be playing at the Whistlestop in Safety Harbor with
a number of other songwriters who participate in the Just Plain Folks
songwriter's forum on the internet (Google for the site).

The fun starts at 1pm and continues until about 4. You will hear mostly
original songs from a wide range of JPF members. You just never know
who might drop by!

Here we are!




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Monday, February 02, 2009 
Check us out on the Colorado Wave this week!

Colorado Wave


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Sunday, January 18, 2009 

Category: Music

The Eternal Florida Folk and Medicine Show, conducted at Jolli Mon's Grille, is (in the words of EFFaMS ringmaster Scotty Lee) "a Florida original artist showcase for the eclectic music fans in the Tampa Bay Area." But that doesn't begin to convey the electricity, the variety,  the abandoned revelry...


So how about you? Eclectic? In the Bay area? Well then, grab all your pals and head for Jolli Mon's Wednesday, 21 January. Scotty Lee will give you a dose of folk and the Blue Island Beer Club will recommend some medicine. The show begins at 7:00.


 
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 
The Blue Island Beer Club is off to the JPF Showcase on Sunday afternoon. We will be playing at the Whistlestop in Safety Harbor with a number of other songwriters who participate in the Just Plain Folks songwriter's forum on the internet (Google for the site).

The host, Jerry, is setting up his brand new PA system and I know of several good musicians who will be attending.

Be there!
11:50 AM 
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 
Independent musicians have to brag about their small successes since the odds against them having big ones are tremendous unless they are young and beautiful. Alas, Bruce and I do not fit in the latter category so we are bragging about the small ones.

Our Blue Island Beer Club CD, Lone Palm Tree, has received lots of airplay on the internet radio station of Latitudes and Attitudes magazine. Lats and Atts is a national magazine targeted at sailors and cruisers everywhere and is sold in bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Borders as well as marinas and ship stores nationwide. We received a purchase order from Lats and Atts just before Christmas for a box of our CDs to sell in addition to the digital downloads which have been available for a while. Now sailors everywhere can order our CD from the magazine or on line.

Ship Store

Latitudes and Attitudes

The Blue Island Beer Club has also been featured on another internet radio station called Music Tampa Bay for some months. We recently learned that one of our songs, written by Bruce, has been included in the MTB Top 100 of 2008......And The Women.

Music Tampa Bay

Small successes, but we love 'em.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 
We have been scheduled as the featured act on January 21 at Jolli Mons in Dunedin, FL. We will be on stage at 8:30pm, following a few other folks.

Jolli Mons is a cool restaurant/bar that has a nice outdoor seating area and a covered stage. Part of the outdoor area is also covered and I believe they have heaters for chilly evenings. Jolli Mons has a wide selection of casual dining dishes including seafood (it is after all only a few hundred yards from the water).

The host, Scotty Rexroat, will start the show at 7 pm with his environmentally sensitive Florida songs. Scotty has great equipment which helps us sound as good as possible.

Here is a link to Jolli Mons - Jolli Mons Dunedin

Incidentally, Jim Mason is the featured act on the 7th. Jim is an excellent singer/songwriter with a long list of credentials that includes singing backup for John Lennon and co-writing I Dig Rock 'N Roll Music with Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008 
The Blue Island Beer Club (Bruce Kula and Colin Ward) is alive and well and ready to play some gigs in 2009. We have been practicing regularly and our repertoire of songs is up to 80 originals and covers and we have tested a wide variety of new brews.

We have added new original songs from both Bruce and Colin, plus we have dug back in the archives to find some great cover songs that you may not have heard for a while. Think Badfinger, Ten Years After, Otis Redding and of course The Beatles.

We like the new Guinness in bottles with a widget and most India Pale Ales (although there is a wide variation within that class). Neither one of us likes the peculiar taste that comes with any beer from Belgium.........awful stuff..........right down the drain with it.

In the interest of practicing in front of live people, we went to a coffee shop open mike/mic in Indian Shores. It is small and intimate, but they had a nice P.A., appreciative people, and decent coffee and drinks. A bit of a jam ensued and we had Tom sitting in with us on saxophone for a few songs.

To listen to samples of The Blue Island Beer Club, you can go here. Lone Palm Tree.

To try the aforementioned brews, you can visit your local liquor store (but watch out for Made In Belgium).
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 

Current mood:Avant-gardish

Hey, those Ybor people may be cool with their black lipstick and their skinny neckties, while we're ordinary island people over here in our cutoffs and boat shoes.

But you know what? Maggie Council is playing at Jolli Mons in Dunedin (Wednesday, 10 December), and for at least one night we're going to be cooler than Andy Warhol in a Popsicle tuxedo.

A local duo-- Blue Island Beer Club-- will be there, too.




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