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6 Capturing Summertime Family Photos

8 Carmelfest Blasts Off: 31st Annual

Event Returns With Colts In Motion, Bigger Fireworks Show & More

12 Rock Out! School of Rock Is

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CAPTURING SUMMERTIME FAMILY PHOTOS Summer has finally settled in and we begin creating anew our seasonal memories: cookouts, visiting the lake house, hiking and absorbing the sunshine. One activity that has also become popular in the summer is outside portraits, especially for families and high school seniors. In reaching out to local Master Craftsman photographers, Jim and Lois Wyant, they shared that summer is the most popular time for outside photographs. The grass is a vibrant green, the trees are vivid and the temperature is “just right” for a relaxed, natural portrait setting. Families and high school seniors also have more flexible time with school summer vacation. The next popular time is fall, for mild weather and the fall color tones, which can run between the end of September to the end of October. Although the actual “peek” of fall colors is hard to pinpoint, there is usually a rich range of color during that time. “Families and high school seniors are selecting to make their portraits more personal,” Lois says. “Including their own unique interests, hobbies and locations. Choosing areas like their home, lake cottage, boat and other personal locations. Wall decor pieces have a more significant memory for the family. Personalization prompts wall decor in the form of portrait art coming together as priceless memories

for the family to be passed down as heirlooms.” The Wyants are especially known for generational family portraits. Often those are connected with a special birthday or anniversary celebration for the grandparents. “It is so precious to see the smiles of grandparents as they are surrounded by their children and grandchildren and then the happiness you can sense in their heart as that family portrait is hung on their wall,” Lois says. “It is so satisfying to create that type of special art piece.” A few of the Wyant’s favorite family portrait stories included a family photographed on their sailboat. Outside sessions in front of the family home with the house as the background. The grandchildren baking cookies with grandma. A 5-foot panorama of a family of 10 children with their children, this collection was done of separate family groups and then put together of their favorite poses. Family stories in the form of specialty albums can be captured in a multitude of ways that will bring a smile to the parent’s faces as the children and grandchildren start to 6 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / JULY 2019 / atCarmel.com

leave the nest on their own adventures. We learned that the three most important items to determine a quality outdoor portrait is experienced “true” professional portrait artist, the time of day and the clothing. The Wyants shared that the bright sun is not flattering for a portrait, it creates bad shadowing on the faces and bright light patches in the background. Either a cloudy day or toward sunset is ideal for optimum results. Clothing should be solid colors that are coordinated. Color can make a difference depending on the home decor or the best color for the family skin tones. For more photo tips, visit wyantphoto.com or give them a call at 317-663-4798.

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CarmelFest, an all-volunteer led event organized by the Rotary Club of Carmel, will return for its 31st year this July. The two-day festival will be Wednesday, July 3 and Thursday, July 4. There are many new features this year, such as the Extreme KidsZone and Colts in Motion trailer. To conclude the celebration, it will showcase a revamped firework show on the Fourth of July.

Colts In Motion is a mobile museum sponsored by the Indianapolis Colts. The museum, which is featured inside a 40-footlong trailer, offers its guests an interactive experience through the sharing of Colts experiences, team history and memorabilia. The trailer also includes state-of-the-art virtual reality, interactive games and photo opportunities. Colts In Motion will be at CarmelFest on July 3 only from 3 p.m. through 10 p.m., offering extended hours specifically for the festival. The trailer will be parked east of the fire station. 8 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / JULY 2019 / atCarmel.com

The Freedom Run will also return on July 4 at 8 a.m., beginning at Carmel High School. Registration for the 4.5-mile run/ walk is available online at carmelfest.net/ event/freedom-run. Keeping with tradition, CarmelFest will again offer games and rides, such as bounce houses and a rock wall. It will also feature food vendors, an outdoor marketplace with local artisan creations and the 2019 Centier Bank CarmelFest July 4th Parade.

The parade, which starts promptly at 10:30 a.m. on July 4, begins at AAA Way and Carmel Drive. The parade route travels west on Carmel Drive to Rangeline Road, turning north to Main Street, traveling east on Main and ending at Carmel High School. The Carmel High School Marching Band has been named the Grand Marshal for the parade. Bec Hunter, CarmelFest Parade & Media/PR Director, says the band was selected “due to the exhausting hours and overall dedication required by these students in order to perfect their performance.” In correlation to the Grand Marshal of the parade, the theme of the event is “America Strikes Up The Band.” atCarmel.com / JULY 2019 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / 9

Also new this year is the ExtremeKidZone, a combination of two kid zones. Additionally, both tickets and wristbands will be available for purchase this year. “Last year we only offered wristbands. This year we’ll have both tickets and wristbands,” says James Bednarski, CarmelFest Chairman. “That’s honestly the biggest change. Everyone should be much happier this year with both options.” In order to put on the event, CarmelFest requires more than 300 volunteers to collaborate and work the event for its 55,000 visitors. For Bednarski, working with the volunteers is his favorite part of CarmelFest.

“It’s working with all the volunteers — we have more than 325 that we work with,” he says. “I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to work with the community and pretty much everybody helps serve the community. That’s my favorite part.”

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Compared to last year’s show, there have been some changes to the fireworks this year. “The big news is we’re doing a larger version Those interested in volunteering can sign-up of the fireworks,” Bednarski says. “We’re online at carmelfest.net/volunteer. doing an expanded firework show. We’ve upgraded the size of the fireworks, so To finish off the two-day celebration, the they’ll go higher and bigger. They’ll still be city’s biggest fireworks display, presented launched from the same site.”

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The array of fireworks will light up the sky beginning at 9:45 p.m. on Thursday. The fireworks will launch from an area north of the Palladium and on the east side of the Monon. Fireworks will be held rain or shine, unless in the event of severe weather. CarmelFest 2019 will be held July 3 through July 4 at various locations around Carmel. For more information, such as pricing, locations or parking, visit carmelfest.net.

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Rock Out! SCHOOL OF ROCK IS INSPIRING YOUTH TO ROCK ON STAGE & IN LIFE “There is always that initial fear of, ‘Will this work here?’ McFarland says. “One of our first kids that started with us was taking Steve McFarland has always enjoyed lessons through another music store and music — especially Classic Rock. When McFarland, a longtime Carmel resident, asked that owner about the School of Rock McFarland was a kid he took music lessons, decided to take the leap or, better yet, rock concept. The owner said, ‘I looked into that, but his dreams of grandeur and being on the out. Today, he is the owner of both School but it will never make it around here.’ There big stage were not exactly fostered by the of Rock locations in Fishers and Carmel. is always that fear of starting a business, lessons he took. The Carmel location opened seven years opening your doors and nobody showing ago, while the Fishers location has now been up. But it took off pretty quickly. We literally “I took the traditional way of music lessons, around for more than three years. have grown by total word-of-mouth. Our and it was boring,” he says. “It was not best advertising is our parents who come exciting at all.” “My wife accuses me of hitting a mid-life to the shows and shoot video of their kids crisis, and instead of buying a sports car I playing on stage. People see those posted all Even though he never became the next bought a music school,” McFarland says over social media.” Jimi Hendrix, McFarland’s love for music laughing. “I absolutely love classic Rock & never went away. About eight years ago, Roll. When I saw this, it was a dream.” Today, School of Rock in Fishers has around his daughter, a rock fan as well, brought up 150 kids that attend. In Carmel, more than the idea of them doing something together Those initial fears of starting something 200 are rocking out each month. musically. That is when McFarland did some new were there at the beginning, but research and stumbled upon School of Rock McFarland’s confidence in School of Rock, The concept, McFarland says, takes the nationally. While there was one School and what it could mean to kids in these boring out of normal music lessons by of Rock location in Indiana at Ft. Wayne, communities, never wavered. flipping the script. Writer / Josh Brown Photographer / Brian Brosmer

McFarland quickly realized there was not one in his area in Hamilton County or the surrounding communities.

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The impact the organization has made on the lives of local Hamilton County kids, and their parents, has already been far-reaching. “Neither my daughter or I have any musical background, but we both love music, and we love the impact we are having on these kids’ lives,” McFarland says. “To have parents at our shows with tears running down their face because they see their kid who, before this might have been spending most of their time locked in their bedroom playing video games, and here they are up on stage as the lead singer or playing guitar in The Rolling Stones show. The parents just can’t believe it. “There are kids at these big high schools that aren’t plugged into anything,” he adds. “It is just as important for parents who are trying to find that thing for their kids, too. “I really wish this had been around when At School of Rock, kids find their place to I was a kid because I would have loved it,” connect and feel good about what they are he says. “We do things differently. We teach doing. They gain confidence by playing on the kids by inspiring them and getting stage. Once they’ve played on stage at Old them playing immediately by learning National in front of hundreds of people, songs first. Then we work backward to what is eighth-grade speech class? That’s no teach them what chords and notes they big deal anymore.” were just playing.” Today, the School of Rock house bands in Fishers and Carmel play all over Indianapolis including venues like Alley’s Alehouse at Pinheads in Fishers, Hard Rock Cafe, Old National and the Irving Theater, among others. The kids all range in age and skill level as they continue to learn and rehearse each week.

The School of Rock kids will tell you much of the same. “This is the best thing I’ve ever done,” says Easton, a 16-year old Bass player. “I’ve met my best friends here. The staff is super caring about the students, and they treat it like an actual band. School of Rock doesn’t just teach you how to get better, it inspires

you to play by yourself, and music becomes a passion rather than a hobby.” “All the people here are really nice and funny, and I love that this is a place for kids who want to make friends and find something they really like to do,” adds Ava, a 12-year old guitarist. The School of Rock kids are performers and devoted to their craft. The kids rehearse and practice often, making sure to nail their solos and be ready for their performances each week. The hard work shows. Anyone who has been to a house band show finds out quickly that the School of Rock students are quite talented. “In the world of basketball, you have Nike scouting all of the AAU basketball tournaments looking for the next big star,” McFarland says. “We are the ‘AAU’ of music that has all the best kids performing. Now we have Atlantic Records and others wanting to sign some of these kids at a young age. “Most kids are doing it for fun, obviously, but they all grow and develop. These kids know they have to show up and prepare, and they take it seriously. Who wants to practice because you have to practice? They practice because they are getting ready for a show. Getting up on stage, they love it.” McFarland plans to keep on rocking. The School of Rock owner hopes to open more locations around Central Indiana in the

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Owner Steve McFarland is a long-time Carmel resident

future, with Zionsville perhaps being the next probable location in his sights. Whether more locations are on the horizon or not, the goal, he says, will remain the same for School of Rock.

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“Our mission statement is to inspire kids to rock on stage and in life,” McFarland says. “We start off all of our meetings always asking, ‘How are we inspiring the kids?’ Twenty years down the road, the music scene in Indianapolis will have changed. All of these kids, when they get older, are going to want to go to restaurants, bars and clubs where they can watch live music. We’ve got 200 kids every year learning to play classic Rock & Roll. If you do that for 20 years, that is a lot of consumers for live music. I think School of Rock can have a significant impact on Indianapolis and the music scene here.”

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Stepping through the doors into Homenclature, visitors get a strong sense that the establishment is not a typical furniture store. The pieces, all handpicked by owners Amanda and Shayne Snider, are unique. Some of them could even be called exotic. As patrons circle through the eclectic and attractively displayed items on

the store floor, it’s easy to get the feeling of being on a treasure hunt. The magic of Homenclature was felt by a designer and producer of HGTV’s popular Good Bones, and they contracted with the Sniders to furnish several homes featured on the current season of the show. “Shayne was in the store when they came in and asked if they could use our furniture. He wasn’t sure what the show was and told atCarmel.com / JULY 2019 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / 15

them he had to ask his wife! When he told me about it, I was so happy to help them out,” says Amanda. Besides enjoying the exposure of being listed in the credits, appearing in the show’s resource guide and mentioned on social media, Homenclature hosted the stars of Good Bones at a June meet-and-greet and will hold a second one on Saturday, August 3 from noon to 2 p.m. Each episode of

Good Bones features the mother-daughter team of Karen Laine and Mina StarsiakHawk as their Indianapolis based company, Two Chicks and a Hammer, renovates homes in neighborhoods such as Fountain Square and Bates Hendricks. “During the meet-and-greet, Karen and Mina point out some of the furniture that was used in the show and why they selected it. They will answer questions, sign autographs and be available to have their picture taken with people attending,” says Amanda. Just as the stars of Good Bones had other occupations before they started rehabbing houses, Snider and her husband had demanding careers. She was a medical sales representative with multiple bio-technology degrees and Shayne Snider held a Ph.D. in education and was climbing high up on the administration ladder of the public-school system he was employed by. After a period of 90-hour workweeks filled with travel and the challenges of raising three children, both knew something had to give.

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“I left my job and took several months off,” Amanda says. “I was furnishing our own home and had to be very frugal. I found everything to be an awful brown and very expensive. Then I got the idea of starting a furniture store where the pieces were unique and had good quality besides a great price.”

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Amanda says, “I began buying up inventory from places like garage sales, Craig’s List and hotel liquidation sales. We opened our first store in the Valparaiso area in May of 2008 and even though the mortgage crisis hit that July, we were successful.” Today, everything in the store is new merchandise manufactured by quality companies. Snider and her husband are able to offer high-end pieces at discounted prices because of the relationships they have cultivated both throughout the United States and in places such as India and Thailand. In fact, they have designed their own line, Irene Patrick (IP) which is produced by an overseas firm they have become particularly close to. “We have evolved a lot in the past eleven years,” says Snider. “We opened our Carmel store in 2017 because many people here were driving up to see us in Valparaiso. We are truly a family business that listens to our customers. An entire house can be furnished in one day at the best price, and no one would be able to tell it came from just one store.” Visit Homenclature at 2150 E. 116th St. or at myhomenclature.com. View the fourth season of Good Bones at 9 p.m. every Tuesday on HGTV.

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POPULAR LOCAL DUO NEARS 25 YEARS OF PERFORMING IN HAMILTON COUNTY & BEYOND Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing . Photographer / Amy Payne

efore Lisa Rae Hodge had celebrated her 21st birthday, she was a huge fan of Dave Edmonds when he played with the band The Oliver Syndrome. It was the spring of 1995. Hodge, who was working several jobs at the time, approached Edmonds after a concert and told him that she would love to sing with him sometime. “I can harmonize and play tambourine,” she offered. Though she was auditioning for another band, she knew she’d prefer to play with Edmonds if given the chance. They became fast friends, despite being polar opposites. As it turns out, their yin-yang dynamic played out beautifully on stage. “He’s the introvert. I’m the extrovert. He’s the mechanic. I’m the driver. He’s the musician. I’m the entertainer,” Hodge says. “Or as Dave’s son tells me, ‘Dad plays the guitar. You shake your booty.’” When they first started, Edmonds sported dreads, Hodge had a perm, and they collaborated on a part-time basis. Before long, however, they were receiving so many requests for gigs that Edmonds left The Oliver Syndrome, Hodge quit her jobs, and “Dave & Rae” transitioned to full-time performers. Initially, the paired played primarily bars and for a solid decade spent a ton of time in Bloomington playing at places like the Bluebird Nightclub. In fact, one night they broke a 21-year record at the Bluebird for number of attendees — somewhere around 1,500. “People were lined up around the block,” Hodge says. “I remember crying on the way home, I was so overwhelmed by the support.” Hodge has gravitated toward music ever since she was a little girl, singing her first song in church at 19 months old.

Edmonds (no relation to Babyface though he fields that question frequently) started playing guitar at age 12, joined some neighborhood bands and was playing regularly by age 18.

country and sing-a-longs, Dave & Rae are masterful at entertaining the crowd with everything from Janis Joplin and the Beatles to Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. They take audience requests and belt out staples such as “Sweet Caroline,” “Me & Bobby McGee,” “Oh, What a Night,” “Brown Eyed Girl” and “Jack & Diane.”

In his free time, Edmonds, who used to play Mozart on his piano, enjoys riding his motorcycle and, above all, loves being a dad to his son Oliver. Hodge, who has been Though they once dominated the bar scene, married to her husband, Bobby, since 1997, now they primarily play weddings, birthday enjoys yoga and golf. Both Edmonds and parties and bar mitzvahs. Hodge like to read though their interests vary. “At one point, we were doing 40 to 50 “He reads Aristotle while I devour weddings a year,” Hodge says. “Now, we’re whatever’s on the best-seller list,” says doing those people’s 40th and 50th birthday Hodge with a chuckle. parties and their children’s graduations. As we grow older, our fans are growing older Performing folk, funk, pop, rock, dance, with us.”

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new coffee shop is brewing in Carmel, and it means business. Java House Coffee Bar opened its doors in May, and it doesn’t serve traditional cups of ground coffee beans. Rather, the bar is pouring cups of premium cold brew coffee. “The whole purpose is that we set out to make a better tasting cup of coffee,” says Cassandra Moe, Coordinator of Java House Coffee Shop. “We believe that we’ve accomplished that through our cold brewing

process. And then the way that we are able to make that into different style drinks.” Java House Cold Brew is owned by Heartland Food Products Group, which has had its corporate headquarters in Clay Terrace for about 10-15 years. “We moved over to this new suite on the other side of the building about a year ago,” Moe says. “When we did that, we decided to get the first-floor suite as well, with the opportunity of opening up the Java House Coffee Shop in the store below. The idea 24 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / JULY 2019 / atCarmel.com

started about a year ago. We wanted to showcase everything that our coffee can do and the way to do that is to open a retail spot.”

A LONG PROCESS The coffee at Java House is 100% cold brew, meaning that the coffee beans are brewed using cold water. The whole process takes more than 12 hours and begins by steeping small batches of coffee beans in room temperature or cold water, rather than roasting coffee beans for traditional coffee.

“Over at our manufacturing facility on 86th Street, we soak our coffee beans in cold water for 12-14 hours in all of these small batch tanks,” Moe says. “We do small batches and it’s all handcrafted and artisan brewing. We do all of the brewing over there, and what we get is this concentrate. Then we use that concentrate to make a cold brew.”

“WHAT WE’RE SERVING IS A BETTER TASTING CUP OF COFFEE.”

From the concentrate, Java House can make cold brews that are hot, cold and with nitro. With the shop, they’re now able to do cold brew lattes, served either hot or cold. Also on the menu are Cappuccinos, Americanos and Frappuccinos. The difference between cold brew and ground coffee is that with ground coffee, it runs the risk of burning the beans. The result can give coffee a somewhat burnt taste. With cold brew, the finished product is a smooth taste. “When you brew coffee hot, essentially what you’re doing is you are scorching that atCarmel.com / JULY 2019 / CARMEL MAGAZINE / 25

bean. So what you get from that is a little bit of acidity and a bit of a bite,” Moe says. “So that’s why sometimes you’ll have coffee drinkers that don’t like it because it’s too much of a bite or it tastes burnt. With cold brew, you’re soaking that bean in cold water for 12-hours. You’re really ending up enjoying that bean with all the coffee notes that it was intended to have with it.”

MOBILE COFFEE Since opening the doors to its Carmel location, Moe says the community has been super responsive to its cold brew. “Everybody has loved it,” Moe says. “We have a really great repeat rate so far. We’ve had a lot of unique visitors come through the shop already, and we just want to continue to get that exposure out there so that everybody can understand what we’re trying to do here, and what we’re serving is a better tasting cup of coffee.”

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In order to increase its exposure, Java House created a mobile truck to go to events around Indianapolis and the surrounding cities. For now, it can be found at CarmelFest, City Market and all the Food Truck Fridays. Additionally, it partnered with Indy Eleven and will be at the Summer Concert Series at Clay Terrace Mall. “The mobile truck was in Chicago last summer,” Moe says. “We decided to move it to Indianapolis, so we’d have better control over all of the events that it was going to. We did that starting this year only. We’re looking forward to just doing a ton of events around that truck this year.” Java House Coffee Bar is located at 14390 Clay Terrace Blvd. Suite 160 in Carmel. It’s open 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. from Monday through Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, its hours are 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. It’s open Sunday from 7 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. You can call them at 317-564-7815 or visit them online at javahouse.com for more information.

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Walking through the door, visitors immediately view a huge blackboard with graphics announcing local sources of ingredients along with the establishment’s social media handles. Each wood top table sports a set of small glasses and a tall carafe of water as well as a view of the coffee bar producing lattes and cappuccinos. Is this a café on Mass Avenue in Indianapolis? No, it’s actually the newest Le Peep Restaurant in Central Indiana, located just north of 106th Street and Michigan Road at 4400 Weston Pointe Drive. Kristen Merritt, Director of Marketing for

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“Since new ownership purchased Le Peep in January of 2018, we have been revamping our menu adding fresh and “We chose the location because we felt it healthier options, gluten-free and vegan, was an untapped market and the response has been overwhelmingly positive,” she says. while retaining the fan favorites that have helped make us who we are,” Merritt “We are thrilled to be a part of the West says. “Our goal is also to include local Carmel & Zionsville Community.” purveyors whenever we can like Circle City Kombucha, Native Gluten-Free Bread Specializing in breakfast, brunch and and Illinois Street Food Emporium. lunch, the Le Peep family of restaurants has been a presence in the Indianapolis “Ever since we opened this new location area since 1988. The latest eatery is like in mid-December, traffic has been steady an old friend that got a makeover. It’s still familiar and comfortable, but more in style and non-stop,” Front of the House Manager with the times. The changes have come Susan Dodson says. “People have been about under the recent tenure of the Pars ordering a lot of the Avocado Toast and

Monday Blues which are a stack of blueberry pancakes filled with granola and topped with blueberry compote. People are loving the new Dutch Baby Pancake but they still come in wanting the Hoosier Bread. It’s amazing. It is deep-fried dumplings rolled in cinnamon sugar and then drizzled with vanilla cream cheese icing and caramel.”

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Currently, she resides in Speedway with her husband, Jay, and two dogs.

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