THE PEABODY ADVOCATE – Friday, August 10, 2018
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Banding together for Teddy Renee and The Renegades to A Place to Rest Eternally
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ayor Edward Bettencourt is proud to announce that Renee and The Renegades will be playing at this year’s Free Summer Concert Series at Leather City Common. The concert is scheduled for Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. and is expected to run until 8 p.m. “The Summer Concert Series is a community tradition we look forward to each year,� said Bettencourt. “We have a few of our favorite bands returning this year with some new groups
added to the mix as well.� A country band from the Greater Boston and North Shore area, Renee and The Renegades features lead singer Renee Danielle Leavitt, who writes her own songs. Concertgoers should expect to hear her originals as well as some of her favorite covers, which range anywhere from rock to bluegrass tunes. The other band members are guitarist Arthur Zervas, multi-instrumentalist Carl Mesrobian, drummer Glenn Butler,
pianist William Yates and saxophone player Sulaymaan Miles. To hear Renee, check out these webpages: HYPERLINK "http://www.soundcloud.com/ GJRDLeavitt" www.soundcloud.com/GJRDLeavitt and HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/ironpoliminos101" www.youtube.com/ironpoliminos101. Tee shirts and CDs will be sold at the event. Ipswich Ale Brew-
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The Decades of Rock, Frank Tavano, Gardner Trask, Al Terminiello Jr., Kerry Leppo, Tony Alosi, and event organizer Bob Capoccia (Chaz Mackin missing from photo) are shown with the headstone at Holy Cross Cemetery for their friend Teddy Palmisano, which bears a picture of Teddy –playing a guitar.
By Al Terminiello, Jr.
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heodore Palmisano was known to all his friends as “Teddy�. He spent most of his life involved in music, his first love. Teddy had his own music shop, where he taught music and repaired instruments. He played in local bands his entire life, as well as solo performances. He sang and played lead guitar, but also could play bass and other instruments if needed. In 2014 Ted joined Inclusion, with his life long friends from Revere as lead guitarist with Bob Capoccia and backing vocalist to Ernie Mottola. Al Terminiello, Jr. on bass guitar, Kerry Leppo on keyboards, Tony Alosi on drums and Frank Tavano on rhythm guitar. Ted left the band with Ernie Mottola to play other venues, but both kept close ties to the band. Teddy’s health started to fail rapidly over the past year with multiple complications, his longtime friend Bob Capoccia kept close tabs on him until his death in December of 2017. Wanting to do something for his friend, Capoccia and the now Decades of Rock, adding Chaz Mackin and Gardner Trask to the band put together a fundraiser in Revere with the help of Commander Dennis Moschella. This was to help with the cost of a headstone at Holy Cross Cemetery. Local musicians joined with the Decades of Rock in June for a tremendous afternoon of music and friendship, remembering Theodore Palmisano. The event was success, donations
coming from across the city and a packed house of friends and musicians from all over the North Shore enjoyed the very best in local music from friends of Teddy. Bob Capoccia and the Decades of Rock want to thank all the musicians that turned out to make the event a success and the crew of volunteers and donors that made it possible to purchase the headstone. Teddy will be missed, but as long as there is music his spirit will live on in Rock n’ Roll.
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