JUNE 2007 FOUNTAIN AFTERDARK, with most recent first € € € Fountain AfterDark vol. 3, no. 26 € June 27, 2007 published weekly by R.A. Fountain, General Store & Internet Cafe Marshall Stephenson & Bluegrass Train Band of All-Star Pickers Friday € Catesby Jones Saturday with Dee Pelligrini € Mayhaws from Florida Free-at-3 Sunday € Shorty Mooring & Farm & Home Band Thursday [Fountain, NC] The Mayhaws, a popular trio based in Florida, perform a free show at Fountain General Store on Sunday afternoon at the close of their eastern US summer tour. Marshall Stephenson brings his all-star Bluegrass Train back to town for a Friday night concert of classic bluegrass and bluegrass gospel. Country music singer/songwriter Catesby Jones performs Saturday night in a program that will open with Dee Braxton Pelligrini. And on Thursday night, Shorty Mooring and Farm and Home return for a concert of original and classic bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, and country music. The Mayhaws perform bluegrass, country, country blues, folk, jugband, and original music. They are noted for their energetic and entertaining live performances. Their latest CD, "Flyin' without My Wings Again," has several cuts that are getting regular airplay on the internet radio station Radio Free Americana. They perform what one reviewer called "front porch music that gets you out of your seat." The Mayhaws July 1 free concert begins at 3 p.m. Marshall Stephenson's Bluegrass Train Band is always a collection of excellent pickers that Stephenson puts together for his shows in Fountain. "Folks are still talking about the show he put on at New Year's," said Alex Albright, Fountain General proprietor. This evening's band includes tenor vocalist David Guthrie, champion fiddler Curtis Lee, Daniel Casey on banjo, Travers Chandler on mandolin, and Brad Hudson on bass. Stephenson plays guitar and mandolin, sings, and directs the evening's entertainment. He is host of the syndicated radio show Bluegrass Train and has been promoting and performing bluegrass in eastern NC since the 1960s. "Marshall's a tireless promoter," said Albright. "It's because of the staying power of people like him that bluegrass is so strong in eastern North Carolina now." Marshall Stephenson and the Bluegrass Train Band's July 29 concert begins at 7:30. General admission is $7.50. Among the hundreds of songs penned by Catesby Jones many have been recorded by major Nashville recording artists such as Del Reeves, Travis Tritt, Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, Joe Diffle, and Jeff Carson. An Ohio native, Jones has performed throughout the US in a music career that began with him performing folk music in New Orleans, Boston, and Greenwich Village. He was introduced to country music while working on oil rigs in Texas, and in 1983 he won a songwriting competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. His new-found interest in country music took him first to Memphis, where he performed regularly at the Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale Street and then to Nashville, where he played often at the Bluebird Cafe and the Douglas Corner Cafe and wrote songs under exclusive contract with an independent publisher. He and his wife, Mimi, settled seven years ago in Wilmington, NC, so that they could raise their children by the ocean. Jones has 3 CDs currently available: the solo recording "Sink or Swim," and two with the Horrells, "Right Hand Man" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jones," which also features Kinston recording artist Clyde Mattocks. All three have been recorded since Jones re-located to Wilmington. Dee Braxton Pelligrini, the Greenville-based fiddler, will open the program with several contemporary and original compositions. The Catesby Jones/ Dee Braxton Pelligrini program begins at 8 p.m. on June 30. General admission is $5. Kicking off the weekend is the Farm and Home Band, fronted by Shorty Mooring and led by the Gaddis Brothers, Jim and Bob. Greenville's John Booker joins them on bass. All share vocals. Farm and Home performs traditional bluegrass and bluegrass gospel, classic country, and many originals penned by Mooring in both bluegrass and country stylings. Farm and Home's June 28 concert begins at 7:30. Admssion is $3. -30- photos BELOW € € € Sixteen Shows Set for July, Artists Visiting from New York, Ohio, Chicago, Florida, Alaska Sun 1 Mayhaws Free-at-3:00 < http://www.themayhaws.com/ > Florida-based band passes through Fountain at end of its east coast tour, headed home. They play traditional hill music, bluegrass, delta blues, and original Americana Thu 5 Ken Waldman 7:30 $5 The Alaskan Fiddlin' Poet finds Fountain while in NC to play the Eno Festival in Durham Fri 6 Jonathan Byrd 8:00 $5 Outstanding original Americana from Chapel Hill, he has won the prestigious New Folk competition at Kerrville, Texas. Sat 7 Richard Hood & the Licking County HotLix Hood, the renowned Ohio banjo picker, comes to town with a band of youngsters from Dennison College dedicated to playing traditional bluegrass. Sun 8 TWO SHOWS! Brien Barbour Free 3 p.m. Back by popular demand, this Triangle-based singer-songwriter plays a host of covers, too. Dynamic delivery, excellent picking, and a real strong voice all combine to make for an outstanding concert. Rayzor Free 7:30 Ray DeArcangelis plays guitar and rack harmonica in the style of Dylan & Neil Young. He's in town from Chicago, from where he's toured throughout the U.S. and Europe for the past 15 years. Thu 12 TBA Fri 13 Russ Varnell & Too Country 8:00 $8 Black Creek's Varnell and band are pure honky-tonk country Sat 14 George Higgs 7:30 $5 Tarboro's internationally acclaimed bluesman is back in action after recovering from a series of strokes. He's the last of his generation performing traditional and original piedmont blues. Sun 15 TBA Thu 19 Bluegrass jam 7:30 Free Open to all levesl of pickers and listneners Fri 20 Carolina Still 8:00 $5 Washington-based bluegrass band has re-grouped, and they grew a lot more traditional when it added fiddling Alex Ball, who also takes a few turns on the mandolin. Sat 21 Homegrown String Band 8:00 $5 From New York, this family band returns to Fountain for a concert of old-time and bluegrass music. Sun 22 Kinston's Thompson performs delta and piedmont blues, folk, country, bluegrass, vaudeville, and pop classics Thu 26 Whitewater Junction Free 7:30 Bluegrass from northcentral NC Fri 27 Steve Creech Sextet 8:00 $7.50 Tonight featuring fiddler Dee Braxton Pelligrino and pianist Jimmy Aycock. Sat 28 Lounge Abouts 8:00 $5 College kids playing traditional bluegrass with great respect--and speed. Cowboy Johnson cancelled his appearance for this date. Sun 29 Melody Brown Free-at-3 Zebulon-based singer-songwriter whose second CD of original Christian folk songs is recently out. What You¹re Reading Each week, we send out a news release to 26 area newspapers and radio stations. The primary contents of each issue of Fountain AfterDark is that news release. The FAD distributed via e.mail contains no attachments. To add friends to our e.mail subscription list, send their e.mail address to ²fountainexpress@rafountain.com.³ To remove yourself from this list, reply to this e.mail with ²unsubscribe³ as either text or subject of your e.mail. Our e.mail list is not sold or traded or otherwise shared with anyone. Please let us know of any suspected abuses of the Fountain AfterDark/Fountain Express distribution list. -30- Fountain AfterDark vol. 3, no. 25 € June 21, 2007 published weekly by R.A. Fountain, General Store & Internet Cafe Red Clay Ramblers, Highway 58 Headline Upcoming Weekend's Music in Fountain € Mike Baker & Drop Top Cadillacs Free-at-3:00 on Sunday € Bluegrass Jam Tonight! € July Music Schedule Released [Fountain, NC] The Chapel Hill-based but internationally renowned Red Clay Ramblers make their Fountain debut on Saturday, and on Friday, Highway 58 returns for a concert of "straight-ahead blluegrass." Fountain General Store's free monthly bluegrass jam kicks the long weekend of live music off, and Mike Baker and the Drop Top Cadillacs present a free-at 3:00 country music concert on Sunday. The Tony-award winning Red Clay Ramblers in various incarnations have been delighting audiences with their original old-time and Americana music for nearly 35 years. Saturday night's show features the quartet that has been their core since 1987: Chris Frank on accordion, guitar, tuba, trombone, and ukelele; Clay Buckner on fiddle, harmonica, and mandolin; Jack Herrick on bass, bouzouki, trumpet, and whistles; and Bland Simpson on piano and baritone. Everybody sings. The Ramblers in various versions are in the midst of a busy summmer: Simpson moves next week to perform a revival of "King Mackeral and the Blues Are Running" with Coastal Cohorts Jim Wann and Don Dixon. Shows run June 28-30 at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City . Proceeds benefit the North Carolina Coastal Federation. In August, Herrick and Frank lead a revival of the Ramblers' Western/musical "Lone Star Love" --their take on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor"--that plays Seattle in September before moving straight to Braodway, with a projected opening around Thanksgiving. Playwright Sam Shepard has called the Ramblers "a great American band," Johnny Cash after seeing them said they were "great"; the New Yorker called their live performances "remarkable"; and the Nation said they were "brilliant." The Red Clay Ramblers June 23 concert begins at 8 p.m. General admission is $10; reserved seats, which are highly recommended, are $12.50. Highway 58 was formed about 8 years ago by Kinston's Clyde Mattocks as an outlet for his true passion, playing classic bluegrass music as fast as it can be played. Mattocks, who has been called "the best pedal steel player in North Carolina," is joined in Highway 58 by John Booker of Greenville on bass; Danny Morris of Vanceboro on guitar; Tim Myatt of Snow Hill on banjo; and Don Batten of New Bern on mandolin. "We named the band because two of us live on NC 58," said Mattocks, "and another one of us lives just off of it." Mattocks is an original member of SuperGrit Cowboy Band, which was formed in 1980, but Highway 58 is about nothing but bluegrass music: "We're a straight-ahead bluegrass band," he said. "Nothing else." Mattocks also plays banjo and dobro and is a popular studio artist, having worked on CDs by Two Dollar Pistols, Catesby Jones, the Flying Pigs, P.J. O'Connell, the Mac and Tammy McRoy Band, Steve March, and the Malpass Family, with whom he often also performs. Mattocks has released two CDs on Supergrit's Hoodswamp label, "Hugging the Hound" and "Over My Shoulder." His original songs frequently make Mike Gross's monthly Top 10 listings for his Singin' West radio show out of Texas. Highway 58's June 22 concert begins at 8 p.m.; general admission is $5. Mike Baker and the Drop-Top Cadillacs is all-star band comprised of Johnny Barham on pedal steel guitar, from the International Harvesters and the Cricket Band; Ronnie King on lead guitar, from the Country Roads Band; Bill Lamm on bass, from Nashville Rash; Dale Nixon on keyboards, from GatorRox; and drummer Robert Keel. Baker and his band performed a standing room only concert of classic country music at Fountain General Store last August, and this is their first performance since then. He has been a popular singer at the weekly country music jams at Robbins Jewelry in Wilson, where most of his band also performs. Mike Baker and the Drop Top Cadillacs' June 24 free concert begins at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2 p.m. R.A. Fountain, General Store and Internet Cafe, is located in historic downtown Fountain, at the intersection of US 258 and NC 222. Its family atmosphere is smoke- and alcohol-free. For further information, visit www. rafountain.com or phone 252-749-3228. Fifteen Shows Set for July, Artists Visiting from Ohio, Chicago, Florida, Alaska Sun 1 Mayhaws Free-at-3:00 < http://www.themayhaws.com/ > Florida-based band passes through Fountain at end of its east coast tour, headed home. They play traditional hill music, bluegrass, delta blues, and original Americana Thu 5 Ken Waldman 7:30 $5 The Alaskan Fiddlin' Poet finds Fountain while in NC to play the Eno Festival in Durham Fri 6 Jonathan Byrd 8:00 $5 Outstanding original Americana from Chapel Hill, he has won the prestigious New Folk competition at Kerrville, Texas. Sat 7 Richard Hood & the Licking County HotLix Hood, the renowned Ohio banjo picker, comes to town with a band of youngsters from Dennison College dedicated to playing traditional bluegrass. Sun 8 Rayzor Free 7:30 Ray DeArcangelis plays guitar and rack harmonica in the style of Dylan & Neil Young. He's in town from Chicago, from where he's toured throughout the U.S. and Europe for the past 15 years. Thu 12 TBA Fri 13 Russ Varnell & Too Country 8:00 $8 Black Creek's Varnell and band are pure honky-tonk country Sat 14 George Higgs 7:30 $5 Tarboro's internationally acclaimed bluesman is back in action after recovering from a series of strokes. He's the last of his generation performing traditional and original piedmont blues. Sun 15 TBA Thu 19 Bluegrass jam 7:30 Free Open to all levesl of pickers and listneners Fri 20 Carolina Still 8:00 $5 Washington-based bluegrass band has re-grouped, and they grew a lot more traditional when it added fiddling Alex Ball, who also takes a few turns on the mandolin. Sat 21 Homegrown String Band 8:00 $5 From New York, this family band returns to Fountain for a concert of old-time and bluegrass music. Sun Kinston's Thompson performs delta and piedmont blues, folk, country, bluegrass, vaudeville, and pop classics Thu 26 Whitewater Junction Free 7:30 Bluegrass from northcentral NC Fri 27 Steve Creech Sextet 8:00 $7.50 Tonight featuring fiddler Dee Braxton Pelligrino and pianist Jimmy Aycock. Sat 28 Lounge Abouts 8:00 $5 College kids playing traditional bluegrass with great respect--and speed. Sun 29 Melody Brown Free-at-3 Zebulon-based singer-songwriter whose second CD of original Christian folk songs is recently out. What You¹re Reading Each week, we send out a news release to 26 area newspapers and radio stations. The primary contents of each issue of Fountain AfterDark is that news release. The FAD distributed via e.mail contains no attachments. To add friends to our e.mail subscription list, send their e.mail address to ²fountainexpress@rafountain.com.³ To remove yourself from this list, reply to this e.mail with ²unsubscribe³ as either text or subject of your e.mail. Our e.mail list is not sold or traded or otherwise shared with anyone. Please let us know of any suspected abuses of the Fountain AfterDark/Fountain Express distribution list. -30- Fountain AfterDark vol. 3, no. 24 € June 14, 2007 published weekly by R.A. Fountain, General Store & Internet Cafe Nancy and Tammy Dail and Country Roads Band Headline 4-Day Music Weekend Upcoming in Fountain € Black Creek Bluegrass Free Saturday € Shorty Mooring, Farm & Home Thursday € Dee Braxton Pelligrino and Justin Sturz Free-at-3:00 & Free Ice Cream for Fathers Sunday! € Handmade Father's Day Cards In Stock € Reserved Seats for Red Clay Ramblers June 23 Now On-Line [Fountain, NC] The return of the popular mother-daughter singing duo Nancy and Tammy Dail with the Country Roads Band on Friday and of Black Creek Bluegrass Gospel on Saturday highlight the upcoming 4-day music weekend in Fountain. Farm and Home kicks it off on tonight with a concert of original and classic bluegrass and country music, and on Sunday, Greenville violinist Dee Braxton and Justin Sturz perform a free concert of classical music and jazz. Nancy and Tammy Dail and Country Roads are the region's most popular country music act. "It's a Myrtle Beach or Branson kind of show," said Alex Albright, Fountain General Store proprietor. "Very theatrical." The Country Roads Band is led by Wilson's Bowie Martin on pedal steel guitar. Ronnie King on lead guitar and Billy Bass on bass provide lead male and backup vocals. Ken Dawson plays drums and John Ackerman plays keyboards. The band has released two CDs, "Country Music Bill Ellis Style" and "The Train Stops Here," which also includes a couple of original numbers. Nancy and Tammy Dail and the Country Roads Band perform from 8-10:30 on June 15. General admission is $8; reserved seats are $10. The Grifton-based Farm and Home is fronted by the songwriting sensation Shorty Mooring, who plays guitar, sings, and, above all, entertains. They perform bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, and many of Mooring's original numbers. Jim Gaddis plays mandolin, John Booker bass, and Bob Gaddis banjo and fiddle. The Gaddis Brothers are from southwestern Ohio but have lived in eastern North Carolina for over twenty years. Booker, who also plays bass with Highway 58, and the Gaddises each take their turns singing. Farm and Home performs at 7:30 tonight, June 14, and again on June 28; general admission for each show is $3. Black Creek Bluegrass Gospel, named for the creek that runs through its members Johnston County backyards, is another of the region's most popular bluegrass gospel groups. Their performances are also their Christian ministry, so patrons, Albright noted, "might expect a bit of testifying along with some really fine bluegrass-style picking." Members are Craig Allen, who plays guitar, banjo, and dobro, and the husband-wife duo of Scott and Tracie Rhodes Johnson. Scott plays mandolin and guitar; Tracie plays bass. "It's hard to believe they can get so much sound out of just three players," said Albright. "Craig and Scott are as fast and articulate as any pickers who come through here, and Tracie has one of the prettiest, purest voices that we've heard." Also appearing with Black Creek will be Bluegrass Redemption, performing in memory of their late singer/guitarist Johnnie Batchelor. Batchelor's daughters Brooke and Lindsay will perform, along with Keith Gastor on guitar and banjo and Skylar Smith on bass. Black Creek's debut recording, "Highway to Heaven," was selected as CD of the month for January '07 on the internet-based Old Time Christian Radio Network. Black Creek Bluegrass Gospel's June 16 concert begins at 7:30; admission is free. Dee Braxton Pelligrino is a well-known fiddler/violinist based out of Greenville, where she teaches violin and with her quartet is a popular wedding reception entertainment. She performs a variety of music styles--jazz, classical, country, bluegrass, and pop standards--in several ensembles. She has accompanied the jazz guitarist Steve Creech in several appearances in Fountain and will share a billing with the Americana artist Catesby Jones here on June 30. Dee Braxton with Justin Sturz performs free-at-3:00 on June 17. R.A. Fountain, General Store and Internet Cafe, is located in downtown Fountain at the intersection of US 258 and NC 222. Its familiy atmostphere is smoke- and alcohol-free. For further information, visit www.rafountain.com or phone 252-749-3228. Reserved Seats for Red Clay Ramblers Available On-Line Reserved seats for the June 23 performance of the Red Clay Ramblers are now available through R.A. Fountain's webpage. No shipping or handling is added to the reserved-seat price of $12.50 each, despite what the store's e.sales program will indicate. The Tony-award winning Red Clay Ramblers in various incarnations have been delighting audiences with their original old-time and Americana music for nearly 35 years. Tonight's show features the quartet that's been their core since 1987: Chris Frank on accordion, guitar, tuba, trombone, and ukelele (our 3rd uke player in 3 years!); Clay Buckner on fiddle, harmonica, and mandolin; Jack Herrick on bass, bouzouki, trumpet, and whistles; and Bland Simpson on piano and baritone. Everybody sings. The Ramblers in various versions are in the midst of a busy summmer: Bland moves next week to perform "King Mackeral and the Blues Are Running" with Coastal Cohorts Jim Wann and Don Dixon. Shows run June 28-30 at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City, and proceeds benefit the NC Coastal Federation and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. In August, Herrick and Frank lead a revival of the Ramblers' Western-musical "Lone Star Love"--their take on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor"--that plays Seattle in September before moving straight to Braodway, with a projected opening around Thanksgiving. (Bland, alas, must stay home where his day-job has him directing the creative writing program at UNC-CH.) Sam Shepard calls the Ramblers "a great American band," Johnny Cash said they were "great"; the New Yorker, "remarkable"; and the Nation, "brilliant." Handmade Father's Day and Graduation Cards in Stock Father's Day and Graduation cards by Ayden artist Shirley Clenny are now in stock. Each card is unique. Clenny has gradually expanded her line of special occasion greeting cards and plans to continue to add new items. Most cards--created as collages--retail for $2.50. What You¹re Reading Each week, we send out a news release to 26 area newspapers and radio stations. The primary contents of each issue of Fountain AfterDark is that news release. The FAD distributed via e.mail contains no attachments. To add friends to our e.mail subscription list, send their e.mail address to ²fountainexpress@rafountain.com.³ To remove yourself from this list, reply to this e.mail with ²unsubscribe³ as either text or subject of your e.mail. Our e.mail list is not sold or traded or otherwise shared with anyone. Please let us know of any suspected abuses of the Fountain AfterDark/Fountain Express distribution list. -30- Fountain AfterDark vol. 3, no. 23 € June 7, 2007 published weekly by R.A. Fountain, General Store & Internet Cafe Malpass Brothers CD Release Party Friday, Steve Creech Sextet with Pat Tutino Saturday € Japanese-American Rock n Roll Tonight € Free-at-3:00 Sunday with Unshackled (Fountain, NC) The Malpass Brothers eastern North Carolina's premier family band, celebrate the release of their new CD at Fountain General Store on Friday night with a show and concert of bluegrass and country music classics. The Steve Creech Sextet performs jazz standards on Saturday night. Unshackled, the Chocowinity-based bluegrass gospel band, performs on Sunday, free-at-3:00. Franco Funicello, a Japanese/American rock and roll band, kicks the 4-day weekend of live music off with a free show on Thursday night. Brothers Christopher and Taylor Malpass are joined in their band by father, Chris. This will be the first date that copies of their highly anticipated new CD, "Hillbilly Fever: the Way It Was," will be available. It features an all-star band of musicians: Clyde Mattocks, Kenny Dail, Jerry Dunbar, Chris Hill, and Tommy Chase, as well as the Malpasses. "Hillbilly Fever" is the group's fifth CD. The family hopes sales of it will help finance their first trip to Europe, when they will play an international festival in Ireland in late August. "This has been our most popular act since the first time they played here," said Alex Albright, Fountain General Store proprietor. "We sell their CDs on the internet literally all over the world. But there's nothing like seeing them live: excellent musicians and singers, and they can charm a smile out of just about anybody." The Malpass Brothers' June 8 show and concert begins at 7:30; general admission is $7.50. Free cake and iced tea will be served. The Steve Creech Sextet's Saturday night concert features vocalist Pat Tutino and keyboard sensation Jimmy Aycock performing classic jazz, show tunes, and popular ballads. Creech, the Greenville guitarist, is one of the area's leading promoters of jazz and live music. He has several different bands that he brings to Fountain, "and he's always surrounded by excellent musicians," said Albright. Aycock, of Fremont, has been honored as a "Carolina Icon" and is the feature of an upcoming PBS documentary. A career educator in and around his hometown, he has proved himself a Fountain favorite in shows with Creech and also as a solo act. "Pat Tutino," Aycock says, "may be the best singer of the old standards that I've performed with." She is originallly from Pennsylvania and performed extensivelly there with jazz combos before moving to Virginia and then eastern NC. She was soloist for the Emerald City Big Band for several years and currently is featured soloist at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville. Prior to playing jazz in bands as a student at UNC-CH, Les Sutorious was selected to the National All Star band from his native New York City. He lives at Cypress Landing, near Chocowinity, and remains active with several bands throughout the region. Bassist Keith Dobbins is a native of Roanoke Rapids who lives in Rocky Mount. While a student at ECU, he performed with the big band the Collegians. Drummer Larry Sigler lives in Greenville, from where he travels the state drumming and singing in beach music bands. "But he loves the old standards, too," said Creech, "and he's a lot of fun to play with." The Steve Creech Sextet's June 9 concert begins at 8 p.m.; general admission is $5. Unshackled formed in Chocowinity in 2002, performs a free-at-3:00 concert of traditional bluegrass gospel on Sunday afternoon. They are one of the most popular attractions at the Grand Ole Gospel the Chocowinity venue that since 2002 has hosted many of the best bluegrass gospel and Southern gospel acts in the region. Bassist Warren Blackard, a native of Mt. Airy, lives in Chocowinity, where he attends Union Chapel Free Will Baptist Church. Banjo picker Marvin Walker, a Hiddenite native, lives in Kinston. In addition to being a fine picker, Walker also makes banjos, and he has built mini-banjos for Ricky Skaggs, and Al Batten. He's currently at work on one for Grass Cats' fiddler and Snow Hill resident Chris Hill. Elton Ipock, mandolinist, lives in Washington, where he attends Faith Free Will Baptist Church. Lead guitarist Dearl Roughton, also a Chocowinity resident, plays in for the praise and worship group for Graceway Community Church. He was born and raised in Columbia, NC. Preston Norman plays rhythm guitar. He lives in Blounts Creek and attends the Vineyard Christian Center in Chocowinity. His wife, Annie, is the group's business manager. Franco Funicello a quartet of rockers who call both Chibo, Japan and Montrose, Colorado, their homebase, play a free concert on Thursday night as part of their "lower 48" summer tour. During the week surrounding their Fountain appearance, they will also be performing in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. They perform a midnight show in Wilmington after their Fountain show. Members are Franco, who plays keyboards and guitar; guitarist Isam Fukashimau; Paul, who plays bass and keyboards; and drummer Bob. All share vocals. The band has released one CD, "Made in Japan." Franco Funicello's concert on June 7 begins at 7:30 p.m. R.A. Fountain, General Store and Internet Cafe, is located in downtown Fountain at the intersection of US 258 and NC 222. Its family atmosphere is smoke- and alcohol-free. What You¹re Reading Each week, we send out a news release to 26 area newspapers and radio stations. The primary contents of each issue of Fountain AfterDark is that news release. The FAD distributed via e.mail contains no attachments. To add friends to our e.mail subscription list, send their e.mail address to ²fountainexpress@rafountain.com.³ To remove yourself from this list, reply to this e.mail with ²unsubscribe³ as either text or subject of your e.mail. Our e.mail list is not sold or traded or otherwise shared with anyone. Please let us know of any suspected abuses of the Fountain AfterDark/Fountain Express distribution list. -30-