25 Years of The Wag: Brian Ostering Talks History, Special Night, and New Album
by Gary Wien - published 2023-02-24
The Wag will celebrate the band's 25th Anniversary and the release of their new album, Blue Bottles and Copper Coins, at The Strand Theater in Lakewood on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Based in Monmouth County, the band includes Brian Ostering and his wife Alicia Van Sant, Don Lee, and Joshua Van Ness. All four take turns as lead vocalist through catchy original songs and create an tremendously fun atmosphere on stage. They perform everywhere from coffeehouses and libraries to clubs and concert halls and have played shows in England, Canada, Japan, and the West Coast. Not many bands ever last a decade much less twenty-five, so we reached out to Brian to learn the complete story of the band and talk about the new album and special night.
Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Your Story" by Tide Bends
by Bob Makin - published 2023-02-24
Tide Bends’ latest single, “Your Story,” is the Makin Waves Song of the Week.
New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 02-24-23
Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!
Don Giovanni in New Jersey – Everything Old IS New Again.
by Bruce Chadwick - published 2023-02-23
Wolfgang Mozart's opera Don Giovanni debuted way back in the 18th century and this coming weekend (Feburary 24 & 26) will be staged in a theater that opened recently, just before the Covid Pandemic, the Sieminski Theater (formerly known as the Fellowship Cultural Arts Center) in Basking Ridge, proving that everything old can, indeed, be new again. The grand old opera, first staged in Prague, will be in a new home, with English sub titles and a new emphasis on its comedy, not its drama.
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Spotlighting The Marshall Tucker Band: 'Something Buried Deep Inside'
by Bob Makin - published 2023-02-23
Named for the recently deceased blind piano tuner who was the previous tenant of their rehearsal space in their hometown of Spartanburg, S.C., The Marshall Tucker Band have been distilling a Southern blend of rock, country, jazz, and blues that has been delighting audiences for 50 years.
BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 2/19/23
by Lazlo - published 2023-02-23
Lazlo, founder of BlowUpRadio.com (an online radio station based around New Jersey artists), shines a light on some of the many new releases from NJ based musicians each week with this column. This week Lazlo takes a look at releases by Carlton Wilkinson, Sean Faust, Screaming Females, Operants, and Deviant Youth.
Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...2/23/23
by Danny Coleman - published 2023-02-23
"The name Project 18 Jay came about because we all grew up in East Brunswick and Route 18 is the main thoroughfare and so they came up with the name Project 18."
South Football’s Impossible Dream screening closes the Spring 20223 New Jersey Film Festival this Saturday, February 25.
by Al Nigrin - published 2023-02-23
Sandra Levine’s insightful documentary South Football’s Impossible Dream screens at the Spring 2023 New Jersey Film Festival on Saturday, February 25! In 1968, Toms Rivers High School Football Coach Signorino challenged his players to believe in “The Impossible Dream” and they responded by delivering an undefeated season, 9-0. Toms River South had racked up a 19-game winning streak by the time the Hitting Indians faced the Middletown Lions, ranked No. 2, in a 1969 mythical state championship. A crowd, estimated at 10,000, gathered in South’s stadium on a bitterly cold November day to watch the two teams battle. Footage unearthed from the vaults of “The Greatest Game” and other matchups in the 1960s will be shown for the first time in more than five decades. This documentary film explores techniques used by legendary Toms River Coach Ron Signorino, Sr., to turn a losing high school football program in the mid-1960s, into a powerhouse, ranked No. 1 in the state.
2023 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners Announced!
by Al Nigrin - published 2023-02-21
Here below are the winners of the 2023 United States Super 8 Film & DV Festival.
We had a nice Festival over the last two days. Many thanks to Phil and Rhonda Vigeant as well as Jaclyn Melo of Pro 8mm for sponsoring our Festival again and providing the prizes for the Best of Festival winners.
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