The entertainment at the Blue Crab Festival has shaped up
to be another stellar day of great music. Harvest Gypsies is one of Tallahassee's most popular rockin' songwriter dance bands, best known for the last eight years for their original rock, jazzy pop, rhythm & blues music. Four veteran recording artists and studio musicians make up this versatile and energetic guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard combo. The three lead singers blend their voices together into three part harmonies creating a wide variety of styles
and textures full of catchy melodies and memorable lyrics that are a pleasure to listen to. In addition, their many loyal fans say that "if you like to dance, Harvest Gypsies is a grooving band focused on fresh, spontaneous improvisation and layered with fun, danceable, songs that appeal to all ages, young and old alike."
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"Coone Bottom Creek" is a local bluegrass band from Wakulla and Leon County. The core of the group started to play together sometimes in 2003 after Billy Samford, on the 5-string banjo, Red "Cornbred" Barns on vocals and guitar, and the Austrian vocal couple Maria and Mischa Steurer, on the upright base and mandolin, respectively, discovered the kick of making traditional and sometimes more progressive bluegrass songs sound quite nice in our living room. Meanwhile, after sticking together over the years, they were joined by Daryl Langston on vocals and guitar and the "youngster", Adam Straubinger, also with some great vocals but up and foremost on his fantastic fiddle. With six folks in the band now the occasionally on-stage performance becomes an interesting logistical challenge. However, the great feedback they receive form the audience every time they play somewhere is just too much of a treat. While most songs and instrumentals we play are not originals, recently Billy and Adam have started to become real creative with their own compositions. Listen closely and you might catch one or the other at the next occasion. We hope you'll meet our band soon and can enjoy our music with us.
YAZID and BLUE CHAMELEON plays island/calypso style music. The group consists of keyboards and plenty of drums and percussion. The keyboards utilize a variety of sounds, especially Steel Drums, and many
other percussive sounds, evoking a rhythmic caribbean feel. Yazid writes most of the songs, using the keyboards to perform all kinds of latin, salsa, reggae, funky music.
Besides playing the keyboards, he being an expert conga drum player, uses three other drummer/percussionists to propel the beat.
Lindsay Evans is 24 years old, born and raised in Sopchoppy, Florida and has been singing since she learned to talk. With strong influence from her father Jerry Evans (hands-down the most talented musician around) her style of music ranges from blues to folk to country.
Caitlin Nicole Eadie is a hard-working 16-year old country music singer/songwriter. Caitlin performs about 60 shows per year in all kinds of venues including fairs, festivals, community events, and private party's.
Hailing from North Florida and singing her way to Nashville at every opportunity, Caitlin Nicole Eadie shows that true talent
comes in all sizes and shapes and in her case, ages. Caitlin has learned how to sing when microphone cords fall out, speakers don't work, and with laryngitis. She's performed for crowds ranging from 5000 to 5 people and performed on stages, flat bed trailers, and on the plain old ground.
Second only to performing on stage is Caitlin's love for songwriting. Caitlin co-write 4 of the 10 songs that are on her debut CD "Country Girl"
The Mountain Dew Cloggers are a family oriented group comprised of people of all ages from the Tallahassee area.
Clogging gives you the opportunity to get out and enjoy a great social activity and get fit at the same time. Your legs will tone up very quickly. Clogging improves flexibility, coordination, endurance and strength. It increases lung capacity, relieves stress, and it's aerobic and burns fat. Clogging is usually danced in lines because there is a better social group feeling when you can see that your new friends are dancing the same routines as you. Some couple and partner routines are taught to keep in touch with the historic Appalachian clogging styles.
Adding to the talent pool will be Brett Kelly, a
singer songwriter from Monticello
who performs solo, with his band 19 South, and with his acoustic group The Rusty Nail Company.
Brett performs at the Tallahassee Parrothead meetings (the Monticello Phlock) at his restaurant Brick House Eatery in Monticello as well as playing in Tallahassee and South Georgia.
Brett is currently working on his first CD, a compilation of his songs with the help of Rick Ott and From the Heart Studio.
This year's Mullet Toss will prove to be additionally entertaining, beginning at High Noon!
