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A News and Tribune Publication

June 12, 2014 — Issue 20

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On the Cover: Dan Skaggs, organizer of Jeffersonville's Smokin' on the River BBQ, Blues & Brew Festival.

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Blues, BBQ you can use

Two weeks ago, we featured a craft beer festival — Fest of Ale — that donated proceeds to the Crusade for Children. We called it Brews for a Benefit. Good stuff.

This week’s cover story is about another festival with a big heart. Smokin’ on the River BBQ, Blues & Brew Festival kicks off Friday night on Riverside Drive in downtown Jeffersonville. Competition booths will also populate Clark Street, as organizers eye Big Four Station at the foot of the popular pedestrian and biking bridge for future expansion.

Jason Thomas, Editor What sets this year’s event apart is that more than 1,000 pounds of meat will be smoked and donated to Jesus Cares at Exit 0, a ministry to the homeless. Leftovers — tipping the scales at 60 pounds — will also be given to those less fortunate. Smokin’ was one of 25 events out of more than 900 in the U.S. asked by the Kansas City Barbecue Society to help out with its humanitarian initiative to help feed the hungry.

And if that isn’t enough, a canned food drive will be central to this weekend’s event. Those enjoying barbecue, brews and quality blues can bring along a can or two to help Exit 0 feed the hungry.

“It humbles you,” festival organizer Dan Skaggs said of giving back to the community.

How big are our hearts in SoIn? Very.

— Jason Thomas is the editor of SoIn. He can be reached by phone at 812206-2127 or email at jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopThomas.

Art on the Parish Green Art on the Parish Green will be held this weekend at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 11th and Main streets in New Albany. In its ninth year, chairwoman Fran Fach talks about the festival’s growth in a Q&A with SoIn. Please describe how the event has grown over the years; also, how many people attended last year?

The event was started eight years ago — that year we had 30 artists, one food vendor, and no music or children’s program. This year we have more than 70 artists — we are actually at capacity for the grounds and street area we have right now.

With the city’s permission, we may be able to expand into an adjacent street next year. Attendance is always hard to measure, but the artists have been very pleased the last several years, and that’s always a positive sign. If the weather is good, I’d say we’ll have several thousand over the course of the two-day festival.

What kind of reputation does the event enjoy among the art-loving crowd? We have an application process for artists, and for the last several years have had more applicants than spaces. A high percentage of our artists have been with us a number of years, and we have a reputation as an “artist friendly” festival. We’ve tried to assure that we have an increasingly wide variety of artistic media represented, and we insist that the artists themselves are present at their booths and that their own art or craft items are what’s sold there. Commercial vendors are not accepted, and there aren’t booths representing area businesses. Of course, our historic location makes Art on the Parish Green seem like an old-fashioned community gathering, and we try to enhance that with the music and the family activities.

What is the event’s impact on Southern Indiana from a cultural perspective? One of our main goals is to give artists and musicians a venue to display and sell their art/ music and to build a community of

 ART ON THE

PARISH GREEN When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday; noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1015 E. Main St., New Albany

followers. The festival’s relatively modest participation fee offers an incentive for newcomers to the art fair world to take the first step in sharing their creativity with the community. The Arts Council of Southern Indiana has been a supporter of this event and actively promotes it to member artists, as do local galleries and Preston’s Art Center in Louisville. Art on the Parish Green also gives top high school artists a special venue to display their work in a student booth every year, and that emphasizes the community’s pride in its young artists and encourages them to continue their artistic endeavors.

Another of our goals is to create an event that will bring community members and visitors into New Albany to highlight the historical district and the revitalized downtown area. New Albany’s

revitalization has a lot to do with galleries, boutiques and public art all over the downtown. An art festival only adds to that ambiance and focus — and it gives people a reason to come downtown and be part of the excitement.

Please explain how the proceeds benefit Shepherd’s Kitchen Feeding Ministry. St. Paul’s Carriage House is the site of the Shepherd’s Kitchen feeding ministry. St. Paul’s and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church collaborate to provide free hot, healthy meals for the needy in New Albany in the Carriage House community room every Friday night of the year. We feed between 65 to 90 men, women and children every week, welcoming everyone who comes as a guest to Shepherd’s Kitchen. All profits from Art on the Parish Green go directly to this outreach ministry of St. Paul’s, and help purchase food and supplies for those weekly meals. Because we have so many community businesses as supporters of Art on the Parish Green, we can give 100 percent of the proceeds to ensure that Shepherd’s Kitchen can continue to adequately serve this increasing community need.

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night on the town What: Night Out New Albany When: 5 to 8 p.m. Friday Where: Downtown New Albany Night Out New Albany is a night for local retailers, restaurants, galleries and shops to showcase their business.

Night Out New Albany is a night for local customers as well as tourists to enjoy an evening of art, entertainment, food, drink and shopping.

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What: Gloriana at Fourth Street Live! (free) When: 7 p.m. Friday Where: Fourth Street Live!, 400 S. Fourth St., Louisville Friday Night Live! keeps on rolling with Gloriana on the Live! stage. Brothers Tom and Mike Gossin and Rachel Reinert form the country music group Gloriana. Gloriana released its debut single “Wild at Heart” in February 2009, which was a Top 15 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

SEE THE LIGHT

What: James Wallace and the Naked Light, Bicentennial Park Concert Series (free) When: 6 p.m. Friday Where: Bicentennial Park, Pearl and Spring streets, New Albany Wallace has lately divided his time between Richmond and Nashville, but his most recent album with his band the Naked Light, “More Strange News From Another Star,” shows that Wallace is a traveler with no fixed place in the musical universe. You can call it indie gospel folk hop rock, or you can suspend your expectations and soak in the diverse soundscape.

Gotta Go: Interested in seeing your event in our 3 To Go?

Email SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com

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Jeffersonville’s Smokin’ on the River aids hungry

By JASON THOMAS jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com EFFERSONVILLE — To paraphrase, the saying goes something like this: “I don’t have the blues because I’m sad. I’ve got the blues because I’m happy that I’m sad.”

You dig?

Southern Indiana residents — especially fans of live music and good eats — will have plenty of reasons to be happy this weekend with Jeffersonville’s Smokin’ on the River BBQ, Blues & Brew Festival.

The ever-expanding event, in its seventh year, will have the usual rows of tents housing barbecue competitors and dozens of vendors on Riverside Drive, JeFF yater with more popping up westward on Clark Avenue toward Big Four Station at the foot of the Big Four walking and biking bridge.

While the event has cost the city money each year, the promise of the hugely popular bridge connecting Louisville to Kentucky has organizers and city officials anticipating big crowds on Jefferson-

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“People love that bridge. They’re going to be smelling that [barbecue] smoke and walk on over,” organizer Dan Skaggs said. “I think we’re going to get hit hard.”

More than 50 competitors will set up shop, hoping to add to their culinary bragging rights.

Many of them will be cooking for those less fortunate, too.

For the first time, festival participants will be cooking more than 1,000 pounds of meat to be donated to Jesus Cares at Exit 0, a ministry for the homeless in Jeffersonville. Smokin’ was one of 25 events in the nation out of more than 900 asked by the Kansas City Barbecue Society to help out with its humanitarian initiative to help feed the hungry.

As part of the initiative, a canned food drive will be held in conjunction with the festival. Exit 0 will have its food distribution truck at the event, where items can be donated.

In addition to the meat donated by the society, competitors will also contribute leftover meat, usually tipping the scales at up to 60 pounds.

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this year’s Smokin’ on the river BBQ, Blues & Brew Festival will take place on riverside drive in Jeffersonville, which affords this sweet view of Louisville.

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actually see the benefit of your work being fulfilled,” said Skaggs, adding that the festival has donated food in the past for Operation BBQ Relief, which helps victims of natural disasters. “It humbles you. It really does.”

As the festival grows in popularity — last year’s attracted more than 20,000, the most ever — city officials are eyeing expanding the event toward Big Four Station, with tents this year dotting Clark and Mulberry streets.

“As Big Four Station develops, we want to push events to that area,” said Sara Schutz, RiverStage and special events director with the city of Jeffersonville. “We’re starting to expand that way this year.”

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the Stacy Mitchhart Band is one of many blues acts that will perform at this weekend’s Smokin’ on the river BBQ, Blues & Brew Festival in Jeffersonville. the band will perform Saturday at 9 p.m. on the river Stage.

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“It’s becoming a popular event. We’re starting to see teams from outside the local region.”

Central Indiana-based Squealers Barbeque has its eye on the big prize, having finished as reserve grand champion two years ago.

“Hopefully this will be our year to shine,” said founder Jeff Yater, adding that Squealers also will be one of the teams cooking for Exit 0.

Yater said the location of Smokin’

on the River on Jeffersonville’s waterfront as well as the added bonus of quality blues performers makes the event one of the best in the country.

“I think it’s a great venue, right by the river,” he said. “They do a good job managing it. There are a few others that we compete in on the river, but Jeffersonville has the nicest venue as far as entertainment and things that go along with it.”

Yater would like to see more prize money, but with a free event that has lost more than $68,000 the past two years combined, that could prove difficult. Contest entry fees fund the prize money.

The city has tried to attract a major sponsor to help offset costs without luck.

“With offering a free event to the public, it’s hard to turn a profit,” Schutz said. “We’re a little down on sponsorships this year, but we’re already focusing on sponsorships next year and we feel that if we get a head start this year hopefully we’ll break even in 2015.”

Despite losing money, the city is moving forward. That’s fine with Skaggs, who said crowds have grown each year of the event. Barbecue, he said, is a hot topic on the national scene and on cable television food shows.

In fact, producers of the Discovery Channel’s hit show “BBQ Pitmasters” were interested in filming Smokin’ last year, but Skaggs had to turn them away because they were asking for too much space.

That kind of visibility only stokes the fires for Smokin’.

“I don’t know what it is but barbecue has just exploded,” Skaggs said. “These barbecue competitions have just exploded.”

Throw in quality music on the RiverStage — Mississippi Heat headlines Friday, Stacy Mitchhart on Saturday — and there’s enough to keep all ages happy, even with the blues.

“We get a little older crowd with the entertainment, and the tasting tent and craft beer tent brings out the younger crowd,” Schutz said. “It’s definitely a good mix.”

Blues You Can use Smokin’ on the RiveR Schedule Friday 4 p.m.: Barbecue tasting tent, craft beer tent and food vendors open. Tasting tent costs: $5 for three samples of barbecue; $5 for four samples of craft beer.

RiverStage 5 p.m.: D Men & the Alley Hounds 6:15 p.m.: The KingBees 7:30 p.m. Ray Fuller & the Bluesrockers é 9 p.m.: Mississippi Heat Tasting Tent (next to Cluckers restaurant) 6 to 9 p.m.: Laurie Jessup & Cout Duggins Saturday 11 a.m.: Barbecue tasting tent, craft beer tent and food vendors open. Tasting tent costs: $5 for three samples of barbecue; $5 for four samples of craft beer.

RiverStage 5 p.m.: River City Blues Band 6:15 p.m.: Boscoe France Band 7:30 p.m.: Michael Gough Group 9 p.m.: Stacy Mitchhart Tasting Tent (next to Cluckers restaurant) 2 to 5 p.m.: D.J. Rice 6 to 9 p.m.: Craig Brenner

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USE YOUR HEAD

Sherpa/Square Peg Concerts and Production Simple announce that The Head and the Heart will be in Louisville for a performance at Iroquois Amphitheater on Thursday, Sept. 25.

Tickets for this all ages show will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday.

General Admission tickets are $30. Tickets are available via IroquoisAmphitheater. com, by phone 877-987-6487, or in person at the Iroquois Amphitheater Box Office, 1080 Amphitheater Road, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday

through Friday.

The Head and the Heart’s new release, “Let’s Be Still,” is a snapshot of a band that didn’t exist just four short years ago. Virginia native Russell and California transplant Johnson formed the core songwriting partnership, which was rounded out by drummer Tyler Williams, keyboardist Kenny Hensley, vocalist/violinist Charity Rose Thielen and bassist Chris Zasche, who’d met Russell and Johnson while tending bar at an open mic they frequented.

— Production Simple

Movies:

albums:

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June 17

é “How to Train Your Dragon 2”

 “22 Jump Street”

é “The Hunting Party” by Linkin Park

 “A.K.A.” by Jennifer Lopez  “Ultraviolence” by Lana Del

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books: June 17

é “Nantucket Sisters” by Nancy

Thayer

 “The Glass Kitchen” by Linda Francis Lee

 “The Fever” by Megan Abbott

soin PLAYLIST Q&A interview with

Jacob Resch Online: Twitter: @jacob_resch; Instagram: @ jpierce9513; Email: jacobreschmusic@aol.com; Facebook: Jacob Resch Music; Website: jacobreschmusic. com Hometown/Age: Floyds Knobs; 19 (Providence High School graduate) How did you get into music?: When I was younger my older cousin played guitar and was in a band. He was a huge reason why I picked up the guitar when I was 8.

Please describe your sound: I consider myself a pop artist but I love to listen to and play almost every genre. Some of my biggest influences are Jason Mraz, Shwayze, Kid Cudi, and Bruno Mars, so I like to think I sound like a little bit of each of them.

What is your musical inspiration? Past relationships and experiences serve as in-

 Upcoming gigs:

June 14: 7 to 11 p.m., Big Four Burgers + Beer, 134 Spring St., Jeffersonville; July 12: 7 to 11 p.m., Big Four Burgers + Beer, 134 Spring St., Jeffersonville

spiration for my music. Some of the happiest and saddest times of my life have helped me write my music.

What are your goals? My goal is to make a living doing what I love, writing, record-

ing and performing music.

What do you make of the Southern Indiana music scene? The Southern Indiana music scene is immensely talented. I love supporting and working with other local musicians. I am currently in the process of recording a song at New Albany Production House that local rapper Shaun Lurding will be featured on. I did a collaboration on my last EP “On the Rocks” called “Marie” that a local rapper named Retro was featured on.

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When: Father's Day weekend Where: The Vintage Fire Museum and Safety Education Center, 723 Spring St., Jeffersonville On Father's Day weekend every father who visits the museum will receive an LED flashlight as a gift. In addition, through the entire summer the Museum is reducing the admission cost by $1 for every visitor who comes across the Big Four Bridge. The reduced admission is $4 for adults and $1 for children 3-15.

The large number of children who voted on the name of the six-foot Dalmatian in front of the Museum has selected the name “Spot.” “Sparky” came in a close second. The Fire Museum has increased its hours and is open Fridays 12-4, Saturdays 10-5, and Sundays 1-4. It is also open by appointment by calling 812-948-8711.

Saturday: 9 a.m. to noon (May 31 through Oct. 25) Downtown Jeffersonville at the corner of Chestnut and Locust streets (on the Wall Street United Methodist Church lot).

Tuesdays: 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (June 3 through Oct. 28) At the 10th Street entrance to Jeffersonville High School Jeffersonville Main Street, Inc., is accepting applications for the Farmers Market. Both food and art/craft applications are available online at jeffmainstreet. org.

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 RiverStage

Where: Spring Street and Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Smokin’ on the River BBQ, Blues and Brew Fest

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 Bicentennial Park Concert Series

When: 6 p.m. Friday Where: Bicentennial Park, Pearl and Spring streets, New Albany James Wallace and the Naked Light (free)

 Music at Huber Winery

When: 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends Where: Huber’s Orchard, Winery & Vineyards, 19816 Huber Road, Starlight Saturday: Petar Mandic; Sunday: Kevin Cumming [huberwinery.com]

 Father’s Day Brunch

When: 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 15 Where: Varanese Restaurant, 2106 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, will host a special Father’s Day Brunch. Treat Dad to a meal made with a variety of locally grown ingredients that he’ll love. All items are priced a la cart. Regular dinner service begins at 5 p.m. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 502-899-9904 or emailing letsdine@varanese. com. [varanese.com]

Door Prizes, Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, and Free Kid’s Ice Cream Cones 9280 SR 64 Georgetown, IN 47122 • 812-951-1715

ART ON THE PARISH GREEN St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 11th & E. Main Street, New Albany, IN • 70 juried fine arts & crafts exhibitors • Beautiful historic setting • Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet will be featured both on Sat. 1-2:45 and on Sun. noon-1:45 • Outdoor Jazz Mass Sun., 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

• Family-friendly fun • YMCA Kids’ Art Place activities, Silly Safaris, clowns, balloon animals, face painting, carriage rides & more • Food Court: Louisville Street Food Alliance trucks, New Albanian Brewing Co., & River City Winery

June 14

Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and

June 15

Sunday noon to 5p.m.

• Convenient parking • Proceeds support Shepherd’s Kitchen Feeding Ministry

Platinum Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: Arts Council of Southern Indiana State Representative Ed Clere Develop New Albany New Albanian Brewing Co. Ob/Gyn Associates of Southern Indiana Promedia Group River City Winery Underproduction Multi-Media YMCA Your Community Bank

www.artontheparishgreen.org • 812-944-0413