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2018 Sinatra Idol Contest, June 14 14 Crooners Compete for Title at Sinatra Park, Hoboken

By Sally Deering For those of you who know Frank Sinatra Drive as the long and winding road on Hoboken’s waterfront, well, kids, its time you knew some Hoboken history. Let’s just say Ol’ Blue Eyes grew up in Hoboken back when almost every corner had a gin joint and if you could carry a tune, some music-lover on a barstool bought you a drink.

Those were the days when Hoboken native son Frankie Sinatra walked the Mile Square City dreaming of someday making it big.

And make it he did!

Superstar, legend, and boy, what a voice. It’s been said that back in the 1990s, while Sinatra was in Manhattan, he

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would tell the limo driver to take him to Hoboken where his black limo could be seen cruising up and down the old neighborhoods.

If you want to see just how much impact Sinatra has had on fans of his music, then you might want to head over to Frank Sinatra Park on Thursday, June 14, at 6:30 pm for the Sinatra Idol contest where 14

Contestant Stanley Volk, London, England

contestants from as far as London, and Mexico will hit the stage and channel the swinging vocal style of Ol’ Blue Eyes as they compete for prizes and bragging rights to the title, Sinatra Idol.

Sinatra Idol hosts are Gary Simpson and Geri Fallo, the director of Hoboken’s Cultural Affairs department who will introduce the

Contestant Barry Oliver Lawton, Dorchester, MA

contestants. Judges are Bob Foster, director of the Hoboken Historical Museum; Dave Post, bandleader for the Swingadelic Big Band; Jack Silbert, music writer and editor (The New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Weird NJ); Joyce Flinn, owner of Elysian Cafe & Schnackenberg’s Luncheonette in Hoboken; and Jay

Lustig, founder/editor NJARTS.net. Jerry Pearce, the 2017 Sinatra Idol winner will perform.

Sponsored by Hoboken’s Cultural Affairs office, Sinatra Idol will require contestants to sing a Sinatra tune, and although the contestants don’t have to sound like Sinatra, they must convey Sinatra’s swingin’, finger-snapping cool.

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���AT�A �����S ����N! Cont’d from page 3 Contestants this year are James Beckman, Elizabeth, NJ; John Busalschi, Wilmington, NC; Peter Cannella, Gloucester City NJ; Paul Capello, St. Augustine, FL; Joe Cracco, Massapequa, NY; Gabriel Diaz, Mexico City, Mexico; Frank Gamrus, Madison, IN; Dylan Kaplan, Hoboken, NJ; Dan Lauzon, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; Barry Oliver Lawton, Dorchester, MA; David Martinez, Elmont, NY; Jerry Padula, Esq, Waterbury, CT; Humphrey Uddoh, Jersey City, NJ; and, Stanley Volk, London, England.

A garment industry retiree, Stanley Volk will be visiting Hoboken for the first time for the Sinatra Idol contest.

Hailing from London, England, Volk used to sing in Barber Shop Quartets. He has competed on TVs The X Factor and made it to the third round several times. He’s been a huge fan of Sinatra’s ever since the 60s, he says.

“Though I grew up with the pop scene, The Beatles, etc., I never really took to that sort of music,” Volk says from London. “Modern Jazz was my thing, particularly Big Bands. We had a lot in London at that time. I saw Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sara

Vaughan, Buddy Rich, et. al. at the Ronny Scott club where it all happened.”

For Sinatra Idol, Volk plans to sing a Sinatra tune from the 1958 album “Only the Lonely” although his favorite Sinatra tune is Angel Eyes, he says.

“There is so much feeling and emotion in his interpretation of that song,” Volk says.

Sinatra Idol contestant James Beckham of Elizabeth also grew up listening to Big Band music and got turned on to Sinatra when he won a contest in college with Sinatra’s rendition of the Cole Porter classic and Sinatra signature song, I’ve Got You Under My Skin.

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“I sing in a crooner Back in the day, Uddoh’s style,” Uddoh says. mom knew Sammy Davis “When asked if he’s Jr.’s wife, Mae Britt, and channeling Sinatra when Uddoh had the opportunity he performs on stage, to watch the great singer Uddoh says, “yes!”

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By Sally Deering A life in art, that’s exactly what William La Rosa set out to do in his 30-year tenure as Director of the Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs. Before retiring in September 2017, La Rosa facilitated programs that helped local visual and performing artists. He founded the Local Arts Program (LAP) grants that, over the years, provided thousands of dollars to local artists and arts organizations.

On Tuesday, June 26, from 6:30-10 pm, the Jersey City Theater Center will honor La Rosa contribution to Hudson’s art scene with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Arts

A LIFE IN ART

JCTC to Celebrate 12-Year Anniversary on June 26 To Honor Bill La Rosa with Lifetime Achievement in Arts Award

always came from a place of love for the arts and respect for artists, giving them the attention they deserve. No arts organization can stand alone, and Bill and Culture. The event has been a supporter also celebrates JCTCs of JCTC from the very 12-Year Anniversary beginning. It is an honor and will be held at for JCTC to give our White Eagle Hall on first lifetime achieveNewark Ave in Jersey ment award to someone City. The $100 ticket who made a difference price includes open in the arts in Hudson bar, hot & cold hors d’oeuvres and jazz from County and New the Hudson Banks Trio. Jersey.”

La Rosa’s support, “Bill La Rosa always saw the arts as a means consultation and encourto unite the community,” agement to arts organizations and artists in Olga Levina, Artistic Director of JCTC says. Hudson never wavered.

A graduate of New “As Director of the Jersey City University Hudson County Office of Cultural Affairs, Bill and New York

University, La Rosa served as Vice President of the Association of New Jersey County Cultural & Historic Agencies, and as a member of the New Jersey Center for Hospitality and Tourism Advisory Council.

In 2000, he was acknowledged by a Joint Legislative Resolution from the New Jersey State Senate and General Assembly for “meritorious record of service, leadership, and commitment on behalf of the New Jersey tourism industry.” He is the recipient of various community service and New Jersey Association of Counties

awards, served as the Chairperson of the Product Development Committee for the New Jersey White House Conference on Tourism Task Force (1993), is a member of the County Open Space Trust Advisory Board, and Chairperson of the Hudson County Public Art Commission.

If you go Tues, June 26, 6:30-10 pm, Tix $100 12-Year Anniversary Celebration White Eagle Hall 335-337 Newark Ave, JC (201) 795-5386 To purchase tix: JCTCenter.org

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JC JAZZ

Riverview Jazz Fes�val Runs June 1-9 in JC Local Venues to Sizzle with Live Music

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omen jazz musicians like guitarist Leni Stern will be highlights of the week-long 6th Annual Riverview Jazz Festival which starts Friday, June 1, with a huge bash at Owen Grundy Pier right outside the Exchange Place PATH Station in downtown Jersey City.

Fri, June 1, kicks off a week of world-class jazz performed by world-class musicians, many who live in and around Jersey City. On the festival’s Opening Night, live jazz will steam up the Owen Grundy Pier while food trucks line the streets outside the Exchange Place PATH Station.

Fun activities for kids are planned, along with a record riot, interactive art, and many local vendors selling refreshments. Festival-goers can expect more than 40 events during the Riverview Jazz Festival with a June 9th closing night of live music and food vendors at the River View-Fisk Park in The Heights section of Jersey City.

Music booker for Fox & Crow restaurant & bar Margo Parks booked the acts for the Riverview Jazz Fest, too. Musician Bryan Beninghove, who plays with several bands in

Jenna Mammina & Rolf Sturm at Fox & Crow, Thursday June 7

Blue Vipers perform at The Archer, June 7 the Tri-State Area took charge of all other festival logistics as Executive Director.

Beninghove’s been doing it since the festival began 6 years ago.

“I’ve been here since the very beginning,” Beninghove says. “This year we have 40-42 events at a lot of different venues. Ten years earlier, we never would have gotten off the ground. There have always been a lot of musicians here, but there haven’t always been the venues. I think there’s more venues now, more of a willingness to engage residents in the area. With all the development, there’s a lot more sponsorship money floating around.

Which makes a huge difference.”

Highlights for the Opening Night of Riverview Jazz Festival at Owen Grundy Pier feature performances by the Riverview Jazz Brass led by Andrae Murchison, ZT Amplifiers Artist

Showcase featuring Vic Juris, Dave Stryker and Charlie Apicella, Gato Loco, and the Johnny Rodriguez Dream Team.

We’re taking over Owen Grundy Pier,” Beninghove says. “I have a brass band, a busker’s section, a guitar showcase, three amazing jazz guitarists, and a Mambo band. It’s going to be a blast.”

Throughout the Festival, restaurants and bars will be hosting live jazz. Places like Fox & Crow, GPs Restaurant, FM, Brightside Tavern, Madame Claude Bis, Harborside, The Archer, and Moore’s Lounge aka Bill & Ruth’s on Monticello Ave. One highlight on Thursday June 7 is when Leni Stern and Lezlie Harrison perform in Women in Jazz at The Rotunda in the Brennan Courthouse on Newark Avenue in Jersey City.

“We’re bringing music back to the Rotunda,” Beninghove says.

“Lezlie Harrison and Leni Stern are two

Festival Executive Director Bryan Beninghove

BeBimBop will perform at Fox & Crow on June 5 really fantastic artists.” want to keep supporting them, and give audiAccording to Beninghove, one of the ences something exciting. Show them there is main purposes of the week-long jazz fest is to all this great music out give residents a chance there.”

If you go to hear great music by Fri, June 1-Sat, June 9 local musicians who 6th annual Riverview also happen to be their Jazz Festival neighbors.

Fri, June 1, 4:30-9 pm Owen Grundy Pier “We’re trying to enDowntown JC Sat, June 9, gage the community 12-8 pm with world class musiRiverview Jazz Festival cians and put a shine Closing Event on the clubs putting Riverview-Fisk Park out music every night,” The Heights More info, riverviewjazz.org Beninghove says. “We Page 7-June 1-June 15, 2018 River View Observer

WOMEN IN JAZZ AT BRENNAN COURT HOUSE The William J Brennan Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue Jersey City, will feature a Women in Jazz special event presented by the Hudson County Executive Thomas DeGise and the Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/ Tourism Development in conjunction with the Riverview Jazz Festival.

The Courthouse Rotunda is a truly stunning and unique venue to enjoy a night of jazz on Thursday June 7th beginning at 7PM. Guitarist and singer Leni Stern will bring her eclectic jazz and world style to the Rotunda.

Named as one of Guitar Player’s 50 most sensational female guitarists of all time, Leni will perform with her

NYC based trio featuring Mamadou Ba and Alioune Faye. She will take the stage at 8PM. Vocalist Lezlie Harrison, a mainstay of the NY jazz scene and DJ for the premier jazz radio station WBGO, will begin the show at 7PM. Lezlie’s bold yet subtle vocals give any song she performs a singular sound that is all her own.

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and saved from destruction by concerned citizens, the William J. Brennan Courthouse housed the county courts and offices until 1966, when it was abandoned and left to crumble. After a complete restoration the building was reopened in 1985 and now houses

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Today, the courthouse has regained its former glory and often showcases local arts and music in its beautiful rotunda.

Hudson County is alive with tons of activities and events. Here is a small sampling: Sixth Borough Comedy Festival – June 7th -10th Groove on Grove – Wednesdays 6-9pm, May to September Hoboken Movies Under the Stars – Wednesdays June 13th to August 15th Bridge Arts Festival – September 8th All About Downtown Street Fair – September 15th If You Go Women in Jazz at the Rotunda

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ARTScene JUNE 2018 Cultural Happenings In & Around Hudson

RIVERVIEW JAZZ FESTIVAL KICK OFF at Owen Grundy Pier, JC; 4:30-9 pm. Performing that night: Riverview Jazz Brass led by Andrae Murchison, ZT Amplifiers Artist Showcase (featuring Vic Juris, Dave Stryker, and Charlie Apicella) @ 5 pm. Gato Loco @ 6:30 2018 SINATRA IDOL CONTEST, Sinatra Park, pm; Johnny Rodriguez Dream Team @ 8 pm.

525 Sinatra Dr. between On Sat, Jun 8, 12-8 pm, 4th & 5th St, HOB. For RIVERVIEW JAZZ more info: (201) 420CLOSING FESTIVAL at 2000. Contest begins Riverview-Fisk Park. Go 6:30 pm. Sinatra-style to the website for weekcrooners compete for prizes and bragging rights. day performances and locations. (Pictured: Leni This year, 14 contestants Stern. On Thurs, June 7 at compete in SINATRA 7 pm, Leni Stern performs IDOL. They are James in Women in Jazz at The Beckman, Elizabeth, Rotunda, Justice Brennan NJ; John Busalschi, Courthouse, 583 Newark Wilmington, NC; Peter Ave, JC.) Cannella, Gloucester City NJ; Paul Capello, AT THE St. Augustine, FL; Joe GALLERIES Cracco, Massapequa, NY; Gabriel Diaz, Mexico City, Mexico; Frank Gamrus, Madison, IN; Dylan Kaplan, Hoboken, NJ; Dan Lauzon, Burlington, Ontario, FRAGMENTED Canada; Barry Oliver IDENTITY, 389 Lawton, Dorchester, MA; Washington, St, JC. David Martinez, Elmont, Opening Reception Fri, NY; Jerry Padula, Esq, June 8, 7-9 pm. (The show Waterbury, CT; Humphrey runs through July.) Solo Uddoh, Jersey City, show by Theda Sandiford, NJ; and, Stanley Volk, a self-taught installation London, England. and mixed media artist based in Jersey City.

“Theda’s first creative RIVERVIEW endeavors were in the JAZZ FEST music business as a digital marketing executive. After years of groundbreaking digital branding work for musicians, she began exploring her own artistry by transforming found and meticulously collected maRIVERVIEW JAZZ terials into mixed media FESTIVAL, Fri, Jun works, photographing her 1-Sat, Jun 9. www.riverprocess and then digitally viewjazz.org. Fri, Jun1, manipulating these images Exchange Place Alliance to extend the narrative and RJO Presents

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JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER (JCTC), Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Ave, JC. www.jctc.org. Thurs, Fri, Sat, June 7, 8, 9: JCTC THEATRE IN RESIDENCE: YARNS

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COMEDY TONIGHT! Bayonne Theater Company Presents A Night of One-Act Comedies Original Plays Feature Members of the Resident Acting Troupe

By Sally Deering A vengeful car; fading movie stars, a mixed-up funeral and an old radio show’s screwy ensemble are all part of the crazy plots now on stage in Lady’s Night, a series of four one act plays presented by the Bayonne Theater company.

The curtain goes up on Sat, June 1 at 7:30 pm at Grace Lutheran Church for the final show in the company’s two weeks of performances that began in May. The four plays, Henrietta, Hags, Dead Reckoning And Bad Day For The Crimson

Crusader – were penned by local playwrights, and directed by Jennifer Lubach, a member of the company.

Henrietta by Joseph P. Krawczyk features Paul Solan, Melissa McCarthy McHugh and Marguerite Baber.

Hags by Samuel Cardinale stars Lori Rose Osborne, Melissa McCarthy McHugh, Julie Trapanese, Eamonn Dwyer, and Daniel Mendez Jr. Dead Reckoning by Fred Dennehy and Lisa Black stars Rose Mediavilla, Luisa Sauter, Kim

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If you go Fri, June 1, 7:30 pm Lady’s Night, an evening of one-act plays The Bayonne Theater Company c/o Grace Lutheran Church 836 Ave “C” (corner of 37th St), BAY

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Paul Solan in Henrietta Norton, Arthur DiVincent, Marguerite Baber, Daniel Mendez, Jr., and Amy Rusnak.

Bad Day For The Crimson Crusader by Jesse Hendrix stars Amy Rusnak, Shawn Norton, Jose Mediavilla, and Richard Dwyer.

The company’s president Adam Semanchik founded Bayonne Theater Company in 2015. The company’s mission is to present art that nurtures, entertains and unites the Bayonne community.

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Join three of Jersey City’s biggest names in the art scene at The 313 Gallery. The Powerpop Trio is Kayt Hester, Robert Piersanti, and Joe Waks. Each artist showing new pieces in the signature styles and mediums they are known for.

Hester searches for beauty in the everyday mundane with her bold, stark pieces created with torn bits of masking tape.

Piersanti draws upon a lifetime fascination with 2018 HPNA Festival 50’s and 60’s pop culture Hamilton Park featuring Jersey City loNeighborhood cals as subjects. His paintAssociation ings have evolved into a Saturday, June 9 at visual diary of the people 12 PM - 6 PM and events in his life.

344 Grove St. PMB Waks tempers reality #166, Jersey City, (America’s faded granNew Jersey 07302 deur and current status as • Kids Activities: a junkie desperately fixing Petting Zoo, Magician, for cheap Chinese-made and bouncy house • Live smart phones) with a entertainment heapin’ helpin’ of humor, • Browse/purchase used a super-sized serving of and new items from irony and a couple of our vendor tables and squirts of hope. His art meet local non-profit is a commentary on our organizations absurd, interconnected The Power Pop Trio. world.

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Hudson County Community College Invites Aspiring Business Owners to Urban Entrepreneurship Course

Starting a business in an urban environment requires a combination of street and business smarts.

Entrepreneurs must invest time and resources into building unique business models. The rewards include financial independence, creative freedom

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Hudson County Community College (HCCC) has a special opportunity for those who wish to start a business in an urban area.

The College’s “Urban Entrepreneurship” course will be held on Tuesday and Thursday, August 7 and 9, from 6 to 9 p.m.in the L Building (71 Sip Avenue) of the College’s Journal Square Campus.

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The noncredit class will focus on the challenges specific to doing business in metropolitan locations. Topics covered will include: •Demographic target marketing •Market challenges and competitive analysis

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Those who wish to attend may register online at https://tinyurl.com/ urbanentrep.

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