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king It Up For more Living coverage, including reviews and calendars, go to DemocratandChronicle.comLiving DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE 3C FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 MUSIC CRITICS PLAYUST WHAT OUR EXPERTS ARE LISTENING TO Coiatdowi to a lb 'day ft', I MUSIC CRITIC JSPEVAK a DEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE Local bands and a B-level celebrity will gather to celebrate Dylan's 70th year I 1 -f-i Viv'is BOB DYLAN) GREATEST HITS. Dylan turns 70 on Tuesday, and to celebrate a collective of local musicians perform his music Saturday at the Village Gate Square. The greatest Dylan album? There's a window in your life mid to late teens when music often makes the biggest impact. I was walking home from baseball practice one afternoon and stopped in the little record store along the way. I can still remember seeing this album on the wall; something about the cover, with that halo of light around Dylan's head.

I bought it, and my life was never the same. It felt important a Rolling and irreverently daring Day Women 12 Even today, when I look at that cover, I feel a little electric chill of a thrill. JEFF SPEVAK Staff music critic Seventy. 25. 10.

Those are the pertinent numbers for a treasured date on the Rochester music calendar. And one that may be coming to an end. The Bob Dylan Birthday Party will probably be going on at least a hiatus after Saturday's show at the Village Gate Square atrium, says the event's primary organizers, the local alternative-country band. It's in the numbers: Dylan's 70th birthday is lues day. The Dylan Party is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

And it's been 10 years since the passing of the show's founder, Chuck Cuminale. The first Dylan party, as The Chinchillas will perform at the Bob Dylan Birthday Party, as will other local bands and solo performers, provided photo Buzzo's Music, made it a habit to show up uninvited to play "Rainy Day Women 12 35," before he was officially inserted in the lineup. After Cuminale passed away in 2001, the tribute skipped a year, so this LOVER SRAYAMaDEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE.COM is actually the 24th perform ance. which also evidenced by a tape recently brought to the attention of was in 1986 at Snake includes later-era Colorblind singer Rita Coulter, resumed the event in 2003. Jim Schwarz, who was with Colorblind in its final incarnation, plays bass Saturday.

"It's always so much IRIC BENITl LOST IN TIME. While the irony of Eric Benet singing "Start mixing it up a little, change the scenery" on "Stir It Up" doesn't escape me the guy croons about love on every album Lost in Time is a change for him. This vocal journey of love is classic; in fact, it's an ode to 70s soul. The way he climbs the vocal scale puts me in the mindset of Curtis Mayfield when I listen to "Take It" featuring Chrisette Michele. There's passion on this CD, but there is nothing lascivious about it.

This is just good old-fashioned love music. But it's modern enough that it's not your grandfather's do-wop sound. Sisters, a South Avenue bar that's now Lux. Hosted by The Colorblind James Experience, it was the brainchild of that band's front man, Cuminale. "I think it was a birthday present for himself, his birthday was pretty close to Dylan's," says Jimmy McAvaney.

As the fun, all of the guests tell us, This is just the coolest thing you says McAvaney. "It's great to see people getting along, having a good time together, rather than talk IF YOU GO What: Bob Dylan Birthday Party. When: 8 p.m. Saturday. Where: Village Gate Square atrium outside the Bop Shop, 274 N.

Goodman St. Suggested donation: $10. Old 97s re-write of Dylan's "Desolation Row." Don Christiano does "License to Kill" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You." Mike Wittick performs "If You See Her, Say Hello" and "Down in the Flood." Band and solo performers include Mike Rae and Jack Shaeffer, The Chinchillas, Ed and Ian Downey, Woody Dodge, Woody Dodge with Annie Wells, Dan Eaton with Jeff Love, Margaret Explosion, Maynard and Phil Marshall with Kenny Frank and McAvaney on Marshall's corrosively powerful version of "Maggie's Farm." All or part of HuNu? will back Charles Jaffe, Tom Kohn, Carol Heve-ron, Rick Petrie, Stan and Will Merrill, Kerry Regan, Spencer Christiano, Brian Lindsey, Alex Vine, Pete Mona-celli, Dana and Ruth Fine, Maria Gillard, Beth Brown, Bruce Diamond, Jeff Riales, Duncan Walls, Sarah Jane, Al Murphy, Connie Deming and B-level celebrity Jeff Spevak. Kinloch Nelson will do "Ballad of a Thin Man," the Dylan song that was legendarily inspired by Jeffrey Owen Jones, a summer intern at Time magazine who was reporting on the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Jones, a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, died in 2007.

JSPEVAKDemocratandChronicle.com Music legend Bob Dylan turns 70 this Tuesday. COLUMBIA RECORDS "it JAZZ LOVER JGARNERdOEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE.COM, ing about whose band is the best." The musicians have been rehearsing for the last three weeks, with some accidental inspiration going into the creative process. Monday night at the HuNu? rehearsal space, Ruth and Dana Fine were warming up for their rehearsal slot with the band, accompanying themselves with acoustic instruments on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," when Coulter, Sarah Jane Long and Maria Gillard jumped in with backing vocals. The room's consensus was that the song should be done just that way on Saturday. Host band HuNu? plays six Dylan songs: Rita Coulter sings "Wallflower" and "Champagne Illinois," actually an drummer for Colorblind, and now he's the only musician to have played every show.

"Chuck just loved Bob Dylan. The first one was just a handful of guests, and it kept getting bigger and bigger. Some years we did it twice, a second night at the Rongo in Ithaca." The only national act to have played the show was subversive Greenwich Village folk singer Michael Hurley, best known for working with The Holy Modal Rounders. But for the most part, the invitees have been local musicians and B-level celebrities, as well as the occasional party crasher: McAvaney remembers how Buzzo Bruno, owner of Geneseo's BLACK 47l BANKERS AND GANGSTERS. I love Irish music (traditional and rock), and Black 47 makes some of the best.

Catch them at the Rochester Jazz Festival next month. They're a New York band, famed for raucous shows and impassioned music. This latest disc is typical, with rockin' knocks of Wall Street financial gangsters, praise of W.B. Yeats, a tale about a Jewish guy whose redheaded love is known as "Izzy's Irish Rose," and more. More on Moody: In last week's review of James Moody's 4B, I put the wrong guy on drums.

It's Lewis Nash. 1 CLASSICAL MUSIC WRITER AREGUERO a DEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE.COM HOT TICKETS JEFF SPEVAK Staff music critic Lit Wayne is joined by Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement and Lloyd at 7 p.m. July 24 at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center. Tour promoters are not accepting first-born children as payment, but tickets, with the Ticketmaster service charges factored in, are $40.25, $74.15 and $116.90. They go on sale at 10 a.m.

Saturday at Ticketmaster, www.ticketmaster.com, (800) 745-3000 and www.live nation.com. Also at Darien, God-smack, Disturbed and Machine Head play the 6 p.m. July 26 "Summer BBQ" at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center. More metal bands will be announced. Tickets are $25.25, $29.50, $39.50, $49.50, $59.50 and $69.50, with a four-pack of lawn tickets available for $76.

Reggae legends The Wailers, 9 p.m. June 4, performing in its entirety their 1980's Uprising, from the last studio album released before Bob Marley's death; that's the album that closes with "Redemption Song." Duane Stephenson opens. Tickets ($20 advance, $25 the day of the show) are at www.frontgatetickets.com. Grace Potter the Nocturnals, 8 p.m. June 24.

Tickets $20 advance, $24 the day of the show, are at Ticketmaster. Carbon Leaf is joined by Chamberlain at 8 p.m. Sept. 15. Tickets ($12 advance, $15 the day of the show) at www.frontgate tickets.com.

Multi-talented Texas blues-rocker Carolyn Wonderland, 8 p.m. Oct. 15 Tickets ($15 advance, $20 the day of the show) are at www.frontgatetickets.com. The last time Push Stars American Idol Live! makes a 7 p.m. Sept.

10 stop at the Blue Cross Arena at the Community War Memorial. The show generally features the top 10 finishers in the TV show. Tickets ($55.45 and $75.90) are available at Ticketmaster and the Blue Cross Arena box office. Brace yourself: Port Chuck, the cover band featuring cast members from General Hospital, plays Sept. 1 at Water Street Music Hall, 204 N.

Water St. The eight-piece band includes four guys from the show: Steve Burton, Scott Reeves, Brandon Barash and Bradford Anderson. Tickets are $40, but if you want the VIP treatment, and a meet-and-greet with the band, $250 and $125 tickets are available. Tickets are at www.front gatetickets.com and (888) 512-7469. Also at Water Street: lead singer Chris Trapper played a pair of shows at this venue, he sold out both of them.

Trapper returns for 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday shows in the intimate upstairs room at Abilene Bar Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. Tickets ($20) are at the club. Call (585) 232-3230. The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival ticket shop opens Monday at the corner of Gibbs Street and East Avenue.

While Club Passes are sold out, tickets are available for all of the Eastman Theatre shows. The office, which also has brochures and schedules, is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., but is closed on Memorial Day weekend. After the start of the June 10 event, the ticket office is open from 10 a.m.

to 11 p.m. every day of the nine-day event. Check www.rochesterjazz.com. MIKA POHJOLAl NORTHERN SUNRISE. Pohjola is a Finnish musician, who relocated to New York City and has become a well-known voice in jazz piano.

In his latest project, Northern Sunrise, he shows a lot of diversity in style. My favorite tracks are the introspective ones that flaunt not only his classical trained piano playing, but also a deep soul in composing, including "Northern Sunrise," "Ebb Flow" and "Peasant's Song." He even does a percussive version of "Have You Met Miss (Mrs.) Jones" that's extremely creative. I'm not such a fan of his fusion songs, where electric guitar and an '80s saxophone sound make appearances. Even so, I think he'll be welcomed at this year's Jazz Festival. www msat, www "i tfESES pS3wiIP si a Ka I 2 Bringing Rochester's Fashion To The World Artists: WE NEED YOUR DESIGNS FOR OUR OFFICIAL FASHION WEEK T-SHIRT.

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