LLC SINCE 2006
Making Musicians A Key to Community
by Patti Daley
L GHOSTS OF GLOBE 5
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS 9
ive music is the heartbeat of many community events in GlobeMiami – marching bands in the parades, pep bands at football and basketball games, community theater, indoor sit-down concerts, and dancing in the street. “We have fun,” says Neto Vasquez, bandleader for Neto and Imagine, a favorite local dance band that gets people off their seats with classic rock, country, cumbias, and more. “We’ve been playing at the fiestas in Miami for a long time.” Together since 2012, they occasionally play at Globe’s First Friday and have been doing more events in Superior. Last month they played at Gila County Historical Museum’s hamburger fry fundraiser. The average age of the six-player band is over 75. Most grew up in Miami during an era of live music played on front porches, all the kids learning guitar. “The groups around have been around for a while, formed from other groups,” says Neto. “I don’t see a lot of new ones coming in.”
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Pictured (l-r) is Jim Bernstein, Kathy Ryan, and Amy Olson from United Jewelry in Globe, a family owned business that has served the local music community for its entire 100-year history and has been a depot for Milano’s Music in Mesa for 20 years. The store rents and sells instruments, accessories and can do a wide array of tuning, service and repair.
Miami Couple Seeks to Establish Pro-LGBTQ+ Nonprofit by David Abbott
HISTORIC GLOBE-MIAMI DOWNTOWN MAPS 10/11
SOCIETY PAGES 12/13
Sisters Bear Ly Covered and Dangly Thyngs with a living statue at this year’s Bisbee Pride event.
“I just don’t want The Copper Corridor has a significant people to be population of LGBTQ+ residents, although members of that segment of the community ashamed and have remain largely anonymous out of fear, given the to hide in town...” current political climate in the United States. – Malcolm Nason Two Miami men want to help change that. They are working to establish a local chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a global organization that contributes time, money, and resources to worthy causes, while poking fun at gay stereotypes. The Sisterhood is an organization advocating for a “rich and rewarding life without guilt and shame,” for members of the LGBTQ+ community. They present themselves in “a comedic and flamboyant display,” having fun while serving their communities. As they do their philanthropic work, they look fabulous in glitter and sparkle with quirky Sisters names that usually have double entendre or pay homage to something in their past. “I just don’t want people to be ashamed and have to hide in town,” says Malcolm Nason, AKA Sister Dangly Thyngs. “I’m not saying we need to be waving a rainbow flag. I have a partner, I love my partner. If you’re against gay marriage, you don’t have to get one. It’s as simple as that.” LGBTQ+, continued on page 19